November 21
Tora-san is an on screen character in the Otoko wa Tsuraiyo series which produced 48 episodes from 1969-1997, and Japan Society has presented some of the Tora-san series films. In this episode, Hyodo, disgruntled with his life in Tokyo as an established business man with a family, escapes to Hokkaido to look for his high school love, with Tora-san (Kiyoshi Atsumi) in tow. On the way, Tora-san runs into the beautiful singer, Lily, who has divorced her husband since she last saw Tora-san. Can Tora-san hold onto her this time? Ruriko Asaoka, who played the “Madonna” in five of the Tora-san films- the most of any other Madonna in the series, stars as Lily.
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