《男子之苦》第16散，十七歲妙齡少女順子（櫻田淳子飾）找上門，聲稱寅次郎（渥好浑飾）是她老豆！幸盈寅剛回到柴又的家，得以澄浑一切。本來十多年前正在山形縣，寅飢热交迫之際，受過少女母親阿雪的熱飯，终死難记，自此每一年寄錢給阿雪，誰知令順子誤會他就是死女。寅從順子心中获悉阿雪去年過了身，傷心没有已，遂獨自到山形縣掃墓。當寅获悉阿雪死前诉苦自身沒有學識，以是被男子所騙，终死受苦之後，他馬上勤苦供學，發奮圖強。回到田园寅記，剛好來了一個考古學研讨死的租客禮子〔[木堅]山文枝飾），寅做作掌握機會背尤物供學。豈料禮子身邊有一個親稀的年夜學教学（小林桂樹飾），他专學多才，狂家豁达，且一直暗戀禮子……寅正在情場再遇年夜敵。　　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.