Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

Join Yoji Yamada for a special Q&A live from Japan after the screening, via digital video!

1969, 91 min., 35mm, color.  Directed by Yoji Yamada, with Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sashiko Mitsumoto, Chieko Baisho.

Twenty years after leaving the small town of Shibamata, Tora-san returns home and is reunited with his younger sister Sakura, who has been raised there by their aunt and uncle. Sakura is now a beautiful young woman with many suitors. When Hiroshi, a neighborhood factory worker, vows to win Sakura over, Tora-san stirs the pot with clumsy schemes that backfire into disaster.

This film is part of the Monthly Classics series, Best of Tora-san.

Tickets
$11/$7 Japan Society members, students & seniors

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