Otoko wa curai jo: Toradžiró monogatari

In this 39th entry, 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 (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as "daddy." But when the real mother is found at a hospital in Ise, Tora-san must choose between the boy's best interests and his newfound family. (Shochiku)