Search results for "Masami Shimojô"
Tora-san’s Matchmaker

Tora-san’s Matchmaker

Tora-san’s Matchmaker
IMDb: 6.7
104

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 bring Mitsuo back home,…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san to the Rescue

Tora-san to the Rescue

Tora-san to the Rescue
IMDb: 7.1
107

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

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Love in Osaka

Tora-san’s Love in Osaka

Tora-san’s Love in Osaka
IMDb: 6.8
104

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…

Genre: Comedy
Stage-Struck Tora-san

Stage-Struck Tora-san

Stage-Struck Tora-san
IMDb: 6.3
107

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.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Tropical Fever

Tora-san’s Tropical Fever

Tora-san’s Tropical Fever
IMDb: 6.9
104

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

Tora-san Plays Cupid

Tora-san Plays Cupid

Tora-san Plays Cupid
IMDb: 6.7
95

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.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
IMDb: 7.2
91

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.

Genre: Comedy
Talk of the Town Tora-san

Talk of the Town Tora-san

Talk of the Town Tora-san
IMDb: 6.6
104

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…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Goes Religious?

Tora-san Goes Religious?

Tora-san Goes Religious?
IMDb: 7.1
105

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,…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Dream of Spring

Tora-san’s Dream of Spring

Tora-san’s Dream of Spring
IMDb: 6.9
104

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

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san Meets His Lordship
IMDb: 7
99

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.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Forbidden Love

Tora-san’s Forbidden Love

Tora-san’s Forbidden Love
IMDb: 6.5
107

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…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Tora-san, the Matchmaker
IMDb: 6.5
107

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

Genre: Comedy
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
IMDb: 6.7
110

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. At his…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset
IMDb: 7.3
109

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo’s first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Song of Love

Tora-san’s Song of Love

Tora-san’s Song of Love
IMDb: 6.5
101

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 volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san, the Go-Between

Tora-san, the Go-Between

Tora-san, the Go-Between
IMDb: 6.5
108

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…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Pure Love

Tora-san’s Pure Love

Tora-san’s Pure Love
IMDb: 6.9
103

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.

Genre: Comedy
Foster Daddy, Tora!

Foster Daddy, Tora!

Foster Daddy, Tora!
IMDb: 6.8
97

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.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san, the Intellectual

Tora-san, the Intellectual

Tora-san, the Intellectual
IMDb: 6.9
100

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,…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Promise

Tora-san’s Promise

Tora-san’s Promise
IMDb: 6.6
101

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. In…

Genre: Comedy
Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Marriage Counselor Tora-san
IMDb: 6.3
102

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san’s family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance,…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san, the Expert
IMDb: 6.8
106

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…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Tora-san Goes to Vienna
IMDb: 6.5
110

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

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Salad-Day Memorial

Tora-san’s Salad-Day Memorial

Tora-san’s Salad-Day Memorial
IMDb: 6.6
100

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.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Bluebird Fantasy

Tora-san’s Bluebird Fantasy

Tora-san’s Bluebird Fantasy
IMDb: 6
103

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 and his family help the friend’s…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san, My Uncle
IMDb: 7.1
109

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

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Island Encounter

Tora-san’s Island Encounter

Tora-san’s Island Encounter
IMDb: 6.5
105

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. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san Goes North
IMDb: 7.2
107

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Tora-san Plays Daddy

Tora-san Plays Daddy

Tora-san Plays Daddy
IMDb: 6.8
101

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 mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san Makes Excuses
IMDb: 6.7
101

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”.

Genre: Comedy
The Village

The Village

The Village
IMDb: 7.1
127

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 and,…

Genre: Drama