Chieko Baisho

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead ...

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the ...

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year’s approaches.

Tezuka Osamu’s most famous work “Jungle Emperor Leo” has been made into an animated version a number of times. In this theater ...

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

Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an ...

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 ...

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tora-san’s nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

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

In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.

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 ...

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged ...

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. ...

Tora-san’s family’s neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is ...

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san ...

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three ...

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san’s family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate ...

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman (“salaried worker”), who abruptly disappears. When the ...

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo’s (Tora-san’s nephew) athletic event. ...

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi’s hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes ...

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist ...

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 ...

Tora-san returns to his family’s home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and ...

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 ...

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the ...

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.