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Little Tokyo Movie Night: Our Lovable Tramp (Tora-san)

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Little Tokyo Movie Night: Our Lovable Tramp (Tora-san)

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This month's film is Episode 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Tough_Being_a_Man) of "Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_Tsurai_yo)," (It's Tough Being A Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Tough_Being_a_Man)).

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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoko_wa_Tsurai_yo):

Torajiro Kuruma (Kiyoshi Atsumi), returns for the first time in 20 years to the neighborhood where he was born, Shibamata (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shibamata&action=edit&redlink=1) in Katsushika (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsushika), Tokyo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo), He comes back in the middle of Taishakuten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibamata_Taishakuten) temple's Koshin Shinko Festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koshin_Shinko_Festival&action=edit&redlink=1). After jumping into the festival procession, he has a teary reunion with his uncle (Shin Morikawa (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shin_Morikawa&action=edit&redlink=1)), aunt (Chieko Misaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chieko_Misaki&action=edit&redlink=1)), and his sister Sakura (Chieko Baisho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Baisho)). The next day, he joins his sister at her at a matchmaking meeting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miai) with the son of a company president. Tora's boorish and drunken behavior at the meeting ruins Sakura's chances of marriage.

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