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…

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…

Tora-san 45: Makes Excuses

7.5

It stars Goto Kumiko as Tora-san's love interest or "Madonna" and Nagase Masatoshi, who plays Mitsuo's rival for Izumi's affection and Natsuki Mari as Izumi's mother.

Tora-san 43: Takes a Vacation

7.6

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together…

Tora-san 46: Matchmaker

7.8

After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled…

Tora-san 44: Confesses

7.7

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo, and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san. (Source: IMDb)

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 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…

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 48: To the Rescue

8.0

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

Tora-san 41: Goes to Vienna

7.3

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

Tora-san 25: Tropical Fever

7.7

Lily, the lounge singer with whom Tora-san fell in love, sends Tora-san a letter informing him that she has been hospitalised in Okinawa after falling sick. Tora-san rushes to her bedside —taking his first plane…

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.