Midori Kawai

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

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 ...

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

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.

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. ...

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

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

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 ...

Tora-san’s family’s neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is ...

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman (“salaried worker”), who abruptly disappears. When the ...

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 ...

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 ...