Tora-san to the Rescue

Tora-san to the Rescue (男はつらいよ 寅次郎紅の花, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Kurenai no Hana) is a 1995 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada.

It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Ruriko Asaoka as his love interest or "Madonna".

[1] Tora-san to the Rescue is the forty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san to the Rescue three and a half out of five stars.

[4] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996 and 1997, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.