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Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset / Otoko wa tsuraiyo: Torajiro yuuyake koyake Series: Japanese Screen Classics: In Honor of Madame Kawakita [July 30 – Aug 14, 2008] Director: Yôji Yamada, Country: Japan, Release: 1976, Runtime: 109 Far and away the most successful series in film history, Tora-san is a phenomenon as sociological as it is aesthetic. The figure of Tora-san, incarnated by comedian Kiyoshi Atsumi, was a walking compendium of ‘60s Japanese styles and trends: a traveling salesman with flashy Hawaiian shirts and speech laced with street slang. He appeared almost a parody of the yakuza figure so popular onscreen at that time. This 17th installment in the series is widely considered one of the best. After an opening sequence that hilariously parodies Jaws, traveling salesman Torajiro — known to everyone as Tora-san — meets a beautiful geisha, Botan (Kiwako Taichi), who confesses that she’s practically penniless since being swindled by one of her customers. Tora-san and his pal Umetaro resolve to get her money back. “There is no political purpose behind the series,” says Yamada, “but it’s true that Tora-san does represent something that’s opposed to the forces that exert so much control in Japanese society…The people who resent it most are precisely the people who support the Tora-san films: the working class and the lower middle class. If you divide the world into the powerful and the powerless, the rich and the poor, then it’s clear which group Tora-san belongs with.”

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