Screenplay: Yoshitaka Asama

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Rie Miyazawa · Nenji Kobayashi · Min Tanaka

Plot 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Plot Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Eiko Shinya · Keiko Takeshita · Nae

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Tokuko Sugiyama

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Tetsuya Takeda · Kaori Momoi

Plot The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow...

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Rie Miyazawa · Yukio Aoshima

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Toshirô Mifune · Keiko Awaji · Keiko Takeshita

Plot When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secrety interested.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Kishi · Takehiko Maeda

Plot Tora-san watches the family shop while the rest of his family takes a vacation to Kyushu. An old friend introduces Tora-san to his sister Ritsuko, and he promptly falls in...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Rino Katase · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Plot Tora-san's Easy Advice is the forty-seventh entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Herb Edelman · Masami Shimojô

Plot 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...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Matsuzaka · Masami Shimojô

Plot When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Kumiko Goto · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Plot Tora-san Confesses is the forty-fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Yoshitaka Asama

Cast Tetsuya Takeda · Eri Ishida · Nobuko Otowa · Kunie Tanaka

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Rumi Sakakibara · Chocho Miyako

Plot Tora-san returns to his hometown and is reconciled with his mother Kiku, who has left him behind since he was born. He then starts his life as a wanderer again,...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Chieko Baisho · Kumiko Goto

Plot Tora-san Takes a Vacation is the forty-third entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Go Kato · Yukiyo Toake · Narimi Arimori · Yumi Kusaka

Plot A tale of the bond between a childless middle-aged couple and their small dog.

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Nenji Kobayashi · Jun Fubuki

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot Tora-san's Matchmaker is the forty-sixth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Ruriko Asaoka · Jun Etô

Plot 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...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Akira Terao · Atomu Shimojô · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Plot The film is set in Matsuo, a remote farming village in Iwate Prefecture in northern Honshu. On a snowy March evening, a youths' association, made up of local twenty-somethings, is...