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 36: Island Encounter

7.5

Tora-san helps runaway neighbor Akemi leave Shibamata to work as a bar hostess in Shimoda. Together they meet eleven elementary students and Tora-san falls in love with their beautiful teacher, Machiko. When the teacher…

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 16: The Intellectual

7.4

Tora-san returns to his family's shop in Shibamata, Tokyo to find himself accused of being the father of a 17-year-old girl. It turns out that Tora-san had only given help to the girl's mother after her husband had…

Tora-san 24: Dream of Spring

7.3

Tora-san returns to his family's home in Shibamata, Tokyo, to find a large American peddler living in his room, leading to various conflicts. As Tora-san struggles through his love with the local Madonna, the American…

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 14: Lullaby

7.4

During his travels Tora-san meets a troubled father with a baby. He shares a drink with the man who then abandons the baby into Tora-san's care. At his hometown in Shibamata, Tokyo, the family is worried about who…

Tora-san 39: Plays Daddy

7.9

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become…

Tora-san 27: Love in Osaka

7.7

Tora meets Fumi, while on a peddling junket to a small island in the Inland Sea. Tora is magnetized by Fumi even though knowing little or nothing about her. Tora encounters Fumi again in Osaka. Then, he comes to know…

Tora-san 35: The Go-Between

7.4

On the Goto Islans, Tora-san rescues an old lady and befriends her. She then dies all of a sudden and at her Chritian funeral, he meets the old woman's granddaughter, who lives alone in Tokyo. Back in Shibamata, Tora-san…

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