After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.

一天到晚做着千奇百怪的梦的阿寅，又在想象自己成了天外来客。梦醒过后，刚刚回家，就和人打起架来，气得刚出院的叔叔差点犯了病。阿寅一气之下又离开家，路上在一个小村子落了脚，结识了因失恋正在痛苦中的小伙子。小伙子听从了阿寅的规劝，并来到东京阿寅家散心。在欣赏歌舞剧时，他们被红奈奈子的精湛演技所倾倒。阿寅对奈奈子产生了爱慕之情，但是，奈奈子因为热爱自己的事业，她把舞台看得比什么都重要。她向自己的男友哭诉心中的矛盾，做出痛苦的选择。但是，他们十年的恋情最终战胜了一切，带着眷恋和遗憾，奈奈子向她钟爱的舞台告别了。

今次寅次郎自告奋勇做媒人，尝试撮合戇直少年良介与纯情小姑娘幸子。“恋爱经验”丰富的寅次郎，以过来人身份指点良介，大献「追女」妙计，可惜他的办法老土到极，良介多次碰钉，最后失恋而回，在寅屋楼上企图自杀，引火自焚…… 大难不死的良介失意地返回老家长崎，谁知此时寅次郎又出现了，还邂逅了良介的失婚姊姊藤子，令寅次郎再次情迷意乱……

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.

《男人之苦》第16集，十七歲妙齡少女順子（櫻田淳子飾）找上門，聲稱寅次郎（渥美清飾）是她老豆！幸好寅剛回到柴又的家，得以澄清一切。原來十多年前在山形縣，寅飢寒交迫之際，受過少女母親阿雪的熱飯，一生難忘，自此每年寄錢給阿雪，誰知令順子誤會他就是生父。寅從順子口中得知阿雪去年過了身，傷心不已，遂獨自到山形縣掃墓。當寅得悉阿雪生前埋怨自己沒有學識，所以被男人所騙，一生受苦之後，他馬上立志求學，發奮圖強。回到老家寅記，剛好來了一個考古學研究生的租客禮子〔[木堅]山文枝飾），寅自然把握機會向美人求學。豈料禮子身邊有一個親密的大學教授（小林桂樹飾），他博學多才，狂野豪爽，且一直暗戀禮子……寅在情場再遇大敵。 The sixteenth instalment in the Tora-san series. The seventeen-year-old girl Junko (Sakurada Junko) comes to Tora-san"s house, claiming that Tora-san is her father! Fortunately, Tora-san arrives home and explains everything. Junko has mistaken him as her father because he has always sent money to Junko"s mother, thanking her for her hospitality when he was very desperate in Yamagata about ten years ago. When Junko tells him that her mother has passed away a year ago, he is crushed and determined to visit her mother"s grave... When Tora-san comes back, an archeology student Reiko (Kashiyama Fumie) comes to rent the place, and he takes this opportunity to pursue learning, and love. However, her teacher Keiji is also there, which makes it difficult for Tora-san.

被譽為《男人之苦》系列中的顛峰之作。淺丘瑠璃子飾演的酒吧歌女莉莉繼第11集《寅次郎毋忘我》後第二度登場。寅次郎與離婚後的莉莉重遇，兩人今次感情突飛猛進，還經常手拖手逛街。正當各人以為寅和莉莉天生一對，慫恿他們共諧連理之際，寅卻狠狠地拒絕了這頭婚事，因為他相信：「莉莉是一隻季候鳥──受傷了回家休息，醫好了便展翅翱翔，留不低停不下──像我一樣。」無腳雀仔的鼻祖原來是寅次郎！ Considered the best film in the series, Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again marked the second appearance of Asaoka Ruriko as Lily, the club singer whom Tora encountered in Tora-san's Forget Me Not. Love seems to have blossomed between Tora and the now-divorced Lily, but contrary to the beliefs of friends and family, marriage is not on the minds of the lovers.

《男人之苦》第14集，寅次郎（渥美清飾）未婚產子？背著BB回到了東京柴又老家？正當大家決定替寅把寶寶撫養成人之際，才得知這是寅在路上拾回來的棄嬰！寅不是生父，也當然不盡父職，終日百無聊賴，寶寶的事全拜託嬸嬸和妹妹阿櫻……直至美女護士京子（十朱幸代飾）的出現，他才積極表現父愛，還打算參加京子的工餘合唱團，以親近對方。誰知寅就在這兒遇上情敵！那滿面鬍鬚的窮光蛋指揮，原來才是京子的最愛！ The fourteenth instalment in the Tora-san series. Tora-san has an illegitimate child? To everyone is surprise, he brought a child back to Shibamata. When everyone in his family decides to raise the child as a family member, they find that he was only an abandoned child that Tora-san found on the street! At first, Tora-san has no interest in taking care of the child and he lets his auntie and sister, Sakura, to do the job instead... until he meets the beautiful nurse Kyoko (Toake Yukiyo). He tries all the ways he could, including taking good care of the child, in order to get her attention. However, a bearded poor conductor in Kyoko is choir stands in the way.

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.

寅次郎赚了些钱，决定要请照顾妹妹多年的叔叔、婶婶，参加旅行社的豪华团去趟夏威夷。两老要出国的消息很快传遍了整个柴又!但命运总爱捉弄寅次郎，替他安排行程的经济人携款潜逃，叫他们好梦成空 。为了免遭人奚落，他们决定晚上才摸黑回柴又，然后躲它个三、五天再现身......