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Posted by NYC XYZ on 01/21/06 06:41
Hi, All:
Know where this amazing franchise is available on DVD?
Surely something which incurred 48 incarnations over 25 years is a
must-see!
I hear it's sentimental, I hear it's formulaic -- but it's a Japanese
classic, a perennial favorite, full of panaramic Technicolor
on-location sweeps of the Japanese countryside and cityscape.
"Otoko wa tsurai yo" translates as "it's hard to be a man." These
movies are the picaresque adventures of a lovable and all-too-human
itinerant salesman of kitchenware who inevitably falls in love and is
inevitably rejected, and whose schemes get himself or his family and
friends into heaps of trouble but who's indefatigable and always
returns to repeat the whole formula in the next episode. How could
this be the 21st Century and no English editions available of this
mainstream Japanese hit??
Is this available on DVD in Japan? Are there, finally, English subs
available?
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