Posted by Goro on 01/22/06 18:08

NYC XYZ wrote:
> 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?

Panorama hs released the first 18 or so on region 3, NTSC, DVD5,
nonanamorphic, english subbed. It is available on R2 NTSC, DVD9,
anamorphic, non-subbed also.

check yesasia.com for the R3s and CDJapan for the R2s.

I have many of them and i really enjoy them. They have some wonderful
bits and are helped from Yamada Yojis wonderful and heartfelt
direction. And also having Chieko Baisho is major for me!

-goro-

-goro-

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