Tora-san, the Good Samaritan (男はつらいよ 奮闘篇)

A Shochiku Film

If winter comes, spring cannot be far behind…

A late spring has finally come here in the north…

Many young people about to leave home for the big city…

Are seen at this country station…

Take care of yourself.

You too, Mom.

Don't work too hard.

A gift from your teacher.

Were you hired as a group?

What kind of work are you going to do?

A toy factory in Tokyo.

You must be worried.

Tokyo?

I haven't gone home for a while.

"Send a dear child on a journey, " they say…

But they are too young to experience hardships…

It is fresh of a drifter like me but this is what I said:

"Don 't hate your folks…

"They didn 't choose to be poor… "

If you get terribly homesick when you're in Tokyo...

There's Toraya, an old sweets shop in Shibamata, Katsushika.

Go straight there.

My uncle, aunty and my only sister live there.

They're all kind and gentle.

They'll treat you like family.

If my sister asks about Torajiro...

That's me.

Tell her even if Torajiro Kuruma is far away...

His heart is with you in Shibamata.

Good luck. Work hard.

Good luck!

Do good work!

Oh, no! That's my train!

Hey, wait!

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

I was born and raised in Shibamata, Katsushika…

Kuruma is my family name… And my given name is Torajiro…

Kuruma is my family name… Kiyoshi Atsumi as Tora And my given name is Torajiro…

Kiyoshi Atsumi as Tora

But people call me Tora, Kiyoshi Atsumi as Tora the street peddler…

But people call me Tora, the street peddler…

But people call me Tora, Chieko Baisho as Sakura the street peddler…

Chieko Baisho as Sakura

Rumi Sakakibara as Hanako

Sachiko Mitsumoto as Fuyuko

Chocho Miyako as Tora's Mother

Kunie Tanaka as Teacher Fukushi

Hiroshi Inuzuka as the policeman

Kosan Yanagiya as the noodle shop owner

Gin Maeda as Hiroshi

Chieko Misaki as Aunty

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

Gajiro Sato as Genko

Shin Morikawa as Uncle

Chishu Ryu as the High Priest

Producer: Tsuguo Saito

Planned by Yukio Takashima Shun'ichi Kobayashi

Written by Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama

Cinematography: Tetsuo Takaba

Art Direction: Kiminobu Sato

Music: Naozumi Yamamoto

Sound Recording: Hiroshi Nakamura

Sound Mixing: Sachio Obi

Lighting: Yoshio Uchida

Editing: Iwao Ishii

Original Story and Directed by Yoji Yamada

Thank you. Come for me at five.

Hello.

Welcome.

Such a long time. You must be Ryuzo's wife.

It's me, Okiku.

Tora's mother!

Why, Okiku!

Okiku!

Ryuzo.

My, my! It's really you.

We've all grown old.

You look so young.

It's just the dress.

You're fine?

Yes, thank you.

I returned and looked around.

I realized how I miss Shibamata.

But didn't Tora's mother die a long time ago?

No. That was Sakura's mother.

Her father played around.

And had a son by Okiku. She was a geisha then.

It's Tora.

I heard she's living in Kansai.

Okiku came back?

The truth is...

Tora wrote to me a year ago.

Getting married, so he asked me to come.

I see.

He's no good, yet he tried to make me happy.

I wanted to write, but he didn't give me his address.

I thought you'd know.

I was very busy then.

My inn's not very decent.

Tax and health offices, the police, even gangsters...

They pester me.

I'm at my wit's end.

Hard to run a business now, isn't it?

What is Tora's wife like? Here?

No, you see...

Hello.

You came?

A guest?

Welcome.

You're Tora's wife?

Then he's my grandson?

My grandson? Come to your grandma.

My grandchild!

No, Okiku...

Listen...

She's not Tora's wife.

She's Tora's mother.

She's his sister.

Tora's sister? I'm sorry.

It's all right.

I'm Sakura, his sister.

I'm Okiku, Tora's mother.

Rather funny, isn't it?

Come to think about it, we're not related at all.

Funny, isn't it?

I thought it funny, too. You're too pretty to marry him.

I'm such a scatterbrain.

I'm very sorry.

And where's Tora's wife?

My brother's wife?

He wrote to her that he was getting married.

When?

A year ago.

Setsuko of Urayasu?

Maybe so.

That was last summer.

A year ago. It's Miss Akiko.

I see.

Natsuko, too, a year ago.

No, she was before that.

The priest's daughter...?

More than a year ago.

Yes, more than a year ago.

There were so many.

So many? What about now?

So you see, he's still single.

Is that right?

So I'm back.

Thank you.

I'll have him phone if he comes back.

I'm in Room 615 at the Imperial Hotel.

Remember, the Imperial Hotel.

Does it cost 5,000 yen a day there?

Isn't it about 10,000 yen?

Expensive.

She must be rich. Coming in a big car.

I doubt if she can really afford it.

She had to show us she's well-off now.

I feel sorry for her.

You could be right.

Poor mother and son.

What's my brother doing now?

Let's welcome him warmly.

We always do.

We hurt his feelings last time.

Something always happens to cause trouble.

What'll we do?

It's simple. Just smile and welcome him home.

Simple? But things always go wrong.

That's right.

I wonder why, when it's so simple.

Where are you going?

I'll practice.

Suppose I'm Tora.

I come with a cheap gift.

Don't be foolish.

It's all right.

A gift. Then?

I'll start now.

Looking stupid as usual...

He says, "Hi! Uncle, Aunty, you okay?"

You two stand up.

"Why, Tora! Glad you're back."

Slap him on the shoulder.

And Tora, the fool, will be overjoyed.

It's that simple. Why can't we do it...?

What?

Don't scare me.

I'm sorry. You're back?

What "fool" would be overjoyed?

No, no. You've got it all wrong.

I said not to.

Listen...

Never mind. I know.

When I'm away, I know you badmouth me.

I'm a fool all right, so I come back worrying about you.

That's not it.

I didn't know you were like them.

Even if everybody in Japan betrayed me.