VIENNA — A 3,000-sq.-meter park in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna will be named after Tora-san, the central character in the long-running Japanese film series "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" ("It's Tough Being a Man") to mark 140 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Austria.
The Tora-san Park will feature a traditional Japanese garden designed by Japanese artists Fumiyo and Masahiro Moriguchi to symbolize bilateral friendship, said Heinz Lehner, district principal of the 21st district of the Austrian capital.
The film series depicts the itinerant peddler Torajiro Kuruma, or Tora-san, played by the late Kiyoshi Atsumi, who constantly falls in love but ends up brokenhearted.