Screenplay: Yoshitaka Asama

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 ordered to kill a skilled rebel swordsman, he can't evade...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 samurai is fading, as Western influences and corruption are slowly...

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

Synopsis 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 handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants...

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

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

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 love with her. She is an artist and has no...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 (references?) the American admits to falling for...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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, and meets Hanako, an innocent but unintelligent girl who works...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 informing him that she is terminally ill. Tora-san rushes to...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 visited by Hideko (Chieko Baisho), representative of a non-profit, Tokyo-based...