Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (男はつらいよ お帰り 寅さん, Otoko wa Tsurai yo Okaeri Torasan) is a 2019 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It is the fiftieth entry in the popular and long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. Shooting began on October 20, 2018 and the film was released on December 27, 2019.
It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san). Atsumi died in 1996 and he appears throughout the film as flashbacks, using footage from his dozens of performances as Tora-san in the previous films. It also stars Chieko Baisho, Gin Maeda, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kumiko Goto, Mari Natsuki, and Ruriko Asaoka, all recreating their roles from the long running film series.
Cast
Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma, otherwise known as Tora-san
Chieko Baisho as Sakura Suwa
Ruriko Asaoka as Lily
Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
Kumiko Goto as Izumi Bruna
Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
Mari Natsuki as Ayako Hara
Chizuru Ikewaki as Setsuko Takano
Hiyori Sakurada as Yuri Suwa, Mitsuo's daughter
Isao Hashizume as Kazuo Oikawa
Nenji Kobayashi as Kubota, Mitsuo's Father in Law
Tatekawa Shiraku as Rakugo artist
Takashi Sasano as Gozen-sama
Jun Miho as Akemi
Mari Hamada
Tetsurō Degawa
Cunning Takeyama
Gajirō Satō
Masayasu Kitayama
Hayashiya Tamahei
Taiki Matsuno
Miu Tomita
Sara Kurashima
Sōtarō Tanaka
Keisuke Kuwata