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Directed by Yōji YamadaOrigin JaponGenres Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Chieko Baishō,
Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Akiko Kazami,
Akiko Chihaya,
Chishū RyūRating69%
Tora-san hears that his mother is still alive and returns to Tokyo to track her down. He discovers that she is a geisha who had had only a brief affair with his father. While visiting the family, he falls in love with Natsuko, the daughter of an old teacher., 1h31
Directed by Yōji YamadaOrigin JaponGenres Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Chieko Baishō,
Chishū Ryū,
Takashi Shimura,
Taichirō HirokawaRating69%
Torajiro Kuruma (Kiyoshi Atsumi), returns for the first time in 20 years to the neighborhood where he was born, Shibamata in Katsushika, Tokyo, He comes back in the middle of Taishakuten temple's Koshin Shinko Festival. After jumping into the festival procession, he has a teary reunion with his uncle (Shin Morikawa), aunt (Chieko Misaki), and his sister Sakura (Chieko Baisho). The next day, he joins his sister at her at a matchmaking meeting with the son of a company president. Tora's boorish and drunken behavior at the meeting ruins Sakura's chances of marriage. After getting into a huge fight with his uncle over his behavior at the meeting, he leaves home and heads to Nara. While there, he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Fuyuko. They return to Shibamata together and spend time together as if they were couple. At the same time, Sakura meets a print shop worker, Hiroshi (Gin Maeda). While Sakura and Hiroshi get married, Tora's relationship with Fuyuko is fleeting, as she is engaged to another man. Broken-hearted, Torajiro leaves after writing a letter of advice for Fuyuko, asking her to help take care of his sister and her new baby., 1h44
Directed by Yōji YamadaGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceActors Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Ruriko Asaoka,
Chieko Baishō,
Masami Shimojō,
Chishū Ryū,
Masane TsukayamaRating68%
Lily, the lounge singer with whom Tora-san fell in love in film 11 (Tora-san's Forget Me Not, 1973) and film 15 (Tora-san's Rise and Fall, 1975) sends Tora-san a letter informing him that she is terminally ill. Tora-san rushes to Okinawa—taking his first plane trip in the process—to be at her side and nurse her to health., 1h41
Directed by Yōji YamadaGenres ComedyActors Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Chieko Baishō,
Masami Shimojō,
Kayoko Kishimoto,
Hidetaka Yoshioka,
Chishū RyūRating66%
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone.