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Tora-san Plays Daddy

Tora-san Plays Daddy
Release date: 1987-12-26
Rating: 9
Votes: 2
Genres: Comedy
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”.

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