Tora-san Plays Daddy(1987)

movie - first aired/released 1987-12-26 - 101 min - audience 8.3

Comedy

Directed by Yoji Yamada

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”.