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Tora-san's Love Call(1971)

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

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Tora-san's Dream of Spring(1979)

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

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Tora-san's Runaway(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.

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Tora-san's Dear Old Home(1972)

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

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Tora-san, the Intellectual(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.

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Tora-san's Lovesick(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.

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Tora-san's Lullaby(1974)

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.

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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again(1975)

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.

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Tora-san's Forbidden Love(1984)

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.

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Tora-san, His Tender Love(1970)

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

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Tora-san Goes Religious?(1983)

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.

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Tora-san's Shattered Romance(1971)

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.

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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan(1971)

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

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Tora-san's Pure Love(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.

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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version(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.

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Tora-san Makes Excuses(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".

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Talk of the Town Tora-san(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.

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Tora-san, My Uncle(1989)

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

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Tora-san's Tropical Fever(1980)

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

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Stage-Struck Tora-san(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.

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