Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san Goes North (男はつらいよ 知床慕情, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shiretoko Bojō) aka Torasan, Remind Shiretoke[1] is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada.

[2] Tora-san Goes North is the thirty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.

The film unites Mifune and Keiko Awaji who had appeared together forty years earlier in Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949).

"[4] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times states that this entry in the series is a "little tougher-minded and a little less sentimental than usual, which is all to the good" and that Yamada had "created a role ideal for Mifune.