Tora-san Goes North (1987) on Netflix
Tora-san, a wandering peddler, arrives in rural Hokkaido. He falls for Rinko Ueno, who has come home to mend her bond with her cantankerous veterinarian father, Junkichi Ueno.
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Plot summary
Torajirō Kuruma, known as Tora-san, is a traveling peddler, and his wanderings bring him to rural Hokkaido. There he meets Junkichi Ueno, a cantankerous veterinarian, and Ueno's estranged daughter, Rinko, who has come home in the hope of repairing her relationship with her father. Etsuko, who runs a restaurant, has amorous plans of her own for the ornery veterinarian. Tora-san loses his heart to Rinko and finds himself caught up in the entanglements of the Ueno household, both between father and daughter and between the doctor and the woman interested in him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tora-san Goes North (1987)
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- Tora-san Goes North reunited Toshiro Mifune and Keiko Awaji, who had appeared together forty years earlier in Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949).
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