‘Tora-san, Wish You Were Here’: Film Review | Tokyo 2019 Tora-san the traveling salesman celebrates 50 years on the screen in the 50th film in the series, 'Welcome Back, Tora-san,' which is still ...

This year marks the 40th birthday of arguably the most popular character in Japanese cinema — Tora-san. To celebrate the occasion, Shochiku is releasing the complete set of its Tora-san films, ...

A scene in “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” the 1970 Pearl Harbor movie, sent stuntmen running for their lives during a real-life airplane crash. By Joshua Skovlund Published Dec 24, 2024 10:34 AM EST Welcome to ...

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here is Yamada’ eighty-eighth film, a fitting triumph for a director who recently matched the mark by turning 88. There is speculation that the movie will be Yamada’s swan song ...

With 48 feature installments from 1969 to 1995, the "Tora-san" series not only set a Guinness World Record, but kept its Shochiku production studio afloat for decades. While it was drawing fans as ...

The late actor Kiyoshi Atsumi, who played Torajiro "Tora-san" Kuruma in the long-running movies series "Otoko wa tsurai yo" (It's tough being a man). (Mainichi) TOKYO -- A fresh installment in the ...

In the nearly 10 years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and entered bitter debates over interrogation techniques and renditions. This ...