Tayama Ryosei

Tayama Ryosei is a Japanese actor.

Hashimoto Jun

Hashimoto Jun is a Japanese actor.

Nishioka Tokuma

Tokuma Nishioka was born on October 5, 1946 in Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial (2010), Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends - The Movie (2009) and Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991). He was married to Masayo Utsunomiya (1973–1975). He has two daughters.

Tora-san 9: Dear Old Home

7.4

Tora-san meets three women on vacation when he travels to Fukui. One of the women meets him at his home, and he believes she has fallen in love with him, unaware that she hopes to marry a potter in the countryside.

Tora-san 13: Lovesick

7.6

Tora-san is getting married! Oh no, it was a mistake. Tora-san thought that single parent Okinu will marry him. However, the father of her son comes back to reunite with his family all of a sudden, which leaves the…

Tora-san 20: Plays Cupid

7.5

Tora-san plays at matchmaker, trying to arrange a romance between Ryosuke and Sachiko. His advice proves disastrous and Tora-san instead falls in love with Ryosuke's sister.

Tora-san 5: Runaway

7.5

Tora, an eccentric and resourceful tramp, is always cheerful. Although he is an orphan, he decides to go back home after a long absence. He thus sees again his sister Sakura Suwa, who has bloomed into a pretty young…

Tora-san 30: The Expert

7.5

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu, he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburo, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all…

Tora-san 17: Sunrise and Sunset

7.5

During his travels, Tora-san meets Ikenouchi, a drunken old man whom he assumes is poor and homeless. Tora-san takes the old man home. When he wakes up, Ikenouchi begins ordering Tora-san's family around in such an…

Tora-san 10: Dream Come True

7.5

Tora-san comes back to his old home in Shibamata. His university professor Mr Okakura suddenly arrives at his home which makes Tora-san so angry that he plans to leave home. However, his old friend Chiyo comes to visit…

Tora-san 8: Love Call

7.5

Tora-san is on the road again after a short return to his home at Shibamata and a squabble with his uncle and aunt. In the course of his travel, he attends the funeral mass of her sister’s mother-in-law and is inspired…

Tora-san 22: Talk of the Town Tora-san

7.6

Shimura Takashi of "Seven Samurai" and "Ikiru" appears for the third and final time in the Tora-san series. Tora-san encounters a high priest for several times on the road. He also meets his brother-in-law's father,…

Tora-san 19: Meets His Lordship

7.6

Tora-san meets the direct descendant of Lord Muneyasu, Hisamune Toda and tries his best to fulfil his Lordship's wish. The Lord's son has been dead for years and since then he has been living in seclusion. Long ago,…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Maeda Gin

Gin Maeda is a Japanese actor. He had a regular role in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo films, beginning with the first in the series, as Sakura's husband.

Goto Kumiko

Kumiko Goto is a former Japanese singer, actress and idol active in the 1980s. As an actress, she is known for starring in the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" films and the Jackie Chan film "City Hunter". In 1995, she quit her artistic career and married the French racing driver Jean Alesi, with whom she has four…

Baisho Chieko

Baisho Chieko is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yamada Yoji since the 1960s. She won the award for best actress at the 5th Hochi Film…

Matsumura Tatsuo

Matsumura Tatsuo was born December 18, 1914 in Yokohama City, Kanagawa as the third son of his family. His father, Takeshige, served as a board member for Nippon Columbia. During college, he belonged to a rugby club. In 1938, he graduated from Hosei University and formed a theater troupe. He was recruited…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…