Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Aug 19, 1975

1h 31m

★ 8.0

Overview

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Shochiku

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again Trailers

Cast

Tora

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Sakura

Chieko Baisho

Uncle

Masami Shimojō

Hiroshi

Gin Maeda

Aunty

Chieko Misaki

President

Hisao Dazai

Genko

Gajirō Satō

Mitsuo

Hayato Nakamura

the Slave Merchant

Yoshio Yoshida

Nobuko

Kaneko Iwasaki

Kimiko

Chiharu Kuri

Mariko

Ai Saotome

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.

7.3

Tora-san's Lovesick

Aug 10, 1974

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.

7.7

Tora-san, the Intellectual

Dec 27, 1975

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.

8.0

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version

Nov 22, 1997

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

8.5

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Aug 6, 1977

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.

8.5

Tora-san's Pure Love

Dec 25, 1976

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.

7.7

Tora-san Plays Cupid

Dec 24, 1977

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.

8.0

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Dec 26, 1992

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 Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".

8.7

Tora-san, My Uncle

Dec 27, 1989

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

8.0

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

Aug 2, 1980

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

8.1

It's Tough Being a Man

Aug 27, 1969

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.

8.0

Stage-Struck Tora-san

Aug 5, 1978

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.

8.0

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

Jan 4, 1973

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

8.5

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Aug 4, 1979

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

9.0

Talk of the Town Tora-san

Dec 27, 1978

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.

8.0

Tora-san Confesses

Dec 23, 1991

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.

8.7

Tora-san Goes North

Aug 15, 1987

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

8.0

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Dec 28, 1979

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

7.8

Tora-san's Runaway

Aug 26, 1970

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.

8.0

Tora-san's Love Call

Dec 29, 1971

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.