Hisao Dazai Movies

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reiko Oshida

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

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Cast: Hayato Tani

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....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kaoru Sugita

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

Genre: Family

Cast: Yoshie Ichige

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

Genre:

Cast: Rokusuke Ei

A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mimi Fukada

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tonpei Hidari

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.

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Cast: Junko Natsu

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kensaku Morita

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai