critiQs

overview : When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, …

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

overview : Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. …

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

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

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

overview : Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo comes to care for …

overview : Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets …

overview : After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality …

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

overview : Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, …

overview : When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo …

overview : Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school …

overview : Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

overview : Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife …

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

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

overview : Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. …