The Go-Between The Go-Between The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider. In the book’s prologue, Leo Colston chances upon a diary from 1900, the year of his thirteenth birthday, and gradually pieces together a memory that he has suppressed. Under its influence, and from the viewpoint of what he has become by the midpoint of "this hideous century", Leo relives the
Tora-san, the Go-Between funny dream-sequence satirizing "The Ballad of Narayama" Stuart Galbraith IV judges this film to be one of the weaker of the series. It treads no new ground for the series, instead putting Tora-san in situations in which he had been before. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives "Tora-san, the Go-Between" three and a half out of five stars. "Tora-san, the Go-Between" was released theatrically on August 3, 1985. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1987 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000, 2005, and 2008. Tora-san, the Go-Between In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an