Tora-san Plays Daddy (1987)
• December 26th, 1987 • 1h 41min
Comedy
Overview
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 the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
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