Tora-san's Tropical Fever

Original title: Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro haibisukasu no hana

1980
1h 44m

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6.9/10

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Comedy Drama Romance

Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling.Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling.Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

Soundtracks
Otoko wa tsurai yo (aka: Men endure)
Music by Naozumi Yamamoto
Sang by Kiyoshi Atsumi

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7/10

Tora san the Palm-reader

What I remember from Tora san is that besides being a Salesman, he was also adept at Palm reading. To promote his Palmistry, he used to erect a big banner which showed a diagram of the human hand with the designated Palm lines.

If you take a stroll down the Ginza nowadays, you can see fortune tellers on the sidewalk plying their trade. Apparently Palmistry is more acceptable in the Orient as compared with the West. Another kind of divination is Omikuji which is done at the Shinto temples in Japan.

Along similar lines as Tora san's Palm reading is the movie "KARASUDO the Palm-reading Samurai" starring actor Shigeru Amachi. But in the movies, the first to read palms was Tora san.