The Go-Between past that continues to exist in and to control the subconscious … This doubling of consciousness and of narrative voice—the innocent twelve-year-old's emerging from beneath the self-protective sixty-five-year-old's—is one of Hartley's most effective techniques.” Another preoccupation in Tóibín's introduction was how far the story of “The Go-Between” is based on fact, in the wake of Adrian Wright’s biographical study, "Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley". Although Leo is twelve at the time of the novel – the long, hot summer of 1900 – the five-year-old Hartley remembered that time afterwards as "a Golden Age". When he was about
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