Kiyoshi Shimazu Trailers
Tora-san's Matchmaker TrailerTora-san Makes Excuses TrailerTora-san's Salad-Day Memorial Trailer
Tora-san's Matchmaker TrailerTora-san Makes Excuses TrailerTora-san's Salad-Day Memorial Trailer
Total trailers found: 48
15 March 1969
The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.
14 December 1963
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
30 October 1965
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill.
24 April 1976
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
25 October 1975
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical.
25 December 1993
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there.
15 August 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.
15 March 1980
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 heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
28 December 1985
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work.
01 November 1975
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
13 February 1949
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
26 December 1992
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo comes to care for him and see Izumi.
06 October 1972
The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is by Keiji Maruyama.
28 October 1972
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat.
26 December 1987
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata.
08 August 1981
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.
28 December 1982
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 Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
28 December 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.
24 December 1988
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.
28 December 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.
27 December 1980
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.
28 December 1984
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears.
01 November 1964
Sugiko Tsutsui, who works at a small publishing company on the verge of bankruptcy, became engaged four years ago to Tsuneo Oda, a factory worker at a local plant, but due to family circumstances, they have not yet been able to marry.
06 August 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.
06 August 1983
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.
05 August 1972
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
04 August 1984
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province.
20 December 1986
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died.
03 August 1985
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 share a night of eating and drinking.
28 December 1981
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels.
10 August 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.
04 January 1973
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
29 December 1972
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room.
07 August 1982
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 National Treasure ceramist.
24 December 1977
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt.
28 December 1979
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
19 August 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.
29 December 1971
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
27 December 1978
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man.
05 June 1971
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko.
02 August 1980
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
27 December 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.
05 August 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.
25 December 1973
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.
01 March 1964
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl.