Tora-san's Tropical Fever (Torajiro Haibisukasu no Hana)

16:00
5 Nopember 2007

The Japan Foundation
Summitmas 1 Lt. 3
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 61 - 62
T 520-1266 # 120

karya Yoji Yamada, 1980, 109 menit
Pemain: Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi
Genre: Serial Comedy Drama, Family Drama

Making a delivery to a seedy snack bar part of Tokyo, Tora-san's brother-in-law Hiroshi (Gin Maeda) runs into Lily (Asaoka), the beautiful but not-very-good singer in love with Tora-san. (Tora-san first met Lily in 1973's Tora-san's Forget-Me-Not and again in 1975's Tora-san's Rise and Fall.) Hiroshi invites Lily to the family's Japanese sweets shop in Shibamata for dinner, but she begs off - she misses them but is reluctant to accept their pity for her.

One month later Tora-san (Kiyoshi Atsumi), the itinerant peddler and black sheep of the Kuruma family, returns home just as a special delivery letter arrives from Lily. Touring the downtrodden cabaret scene in Okinawa, Lily is seriously ill in hospital and asks to see Tora-san. Faced with an agonizing three-day by train and ship-ride to the island, Tora-san's sister, Sakura (Chieko Baisho), buys him a plane ticket so that he can be there in a matter of hours.

Though Tora-san almost refuses to board the plane, his first flight ever, because he's terrified of flying he's eventually coaxed aboard by some JAL stewardesses and makes his way to the hospital in Okinawa where he's reunited with Lily and begins nursing her back to health.