Tora-san Plays Daddy

Comedy

🏆 Fan Favorite

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Yoji Yamada

Status Released

Release Date 1987-12-26

Storyline

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”.