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, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying a...

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

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by th...

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his...

Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo com...

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced...

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

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn w...

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on ...

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but recon...

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

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

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

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to To...

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to tra...

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarra...

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully compre...

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a y...