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…

Tora-san 49: Tropical Fever Special Edition

7.4

Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling. . ~~This special edition was made by adding…

Tora-san 15: Rise and Fall

7.7

Tora-san meets the weird and lonely Hyodo in the Northeast. Hyodo is determined to leave his home in Tokyo and goes back to Hokkaido to find his true love that he has not seen for 30 years. Tora-san accompanies him…

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,…

Tora-san 11: Forget Me Not

7.8

When Tora-san takes a job at a dairy farm, he becomes infatuated with Lily, a singer. Tora becomes ill, and Lily plans to visit him to tell him his feelings are requited. She is fired from her job and must leave before…

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 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 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 26: Foster Daddy, Tora!

7.7

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Tora-san 29: Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

7.8

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression…

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…

Atsumi Kiyoshi

Atsumi Kiyoshi (Born Tadokoro Yasuo) was a Japanese film actor. He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957. His vivid performance of a lovable, innocent man in…

Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi

Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, poet, and human-rights advocate, who is a prominent figure in Japanese popular music. On September 7, 1956, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, the first son of policeman Kuniharu Nagabuchi and his wife Masuko, was born in Ijuin, Kagoshima. When he was a child,…

Soganoya Kantaro

Soganoya Kantaro is a Japanese actor, born in Osaka.