「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第33作。初夏の釧路で、根無し草の風子(中原理恵)に、かつての自分の姿を見た寅さんは、彼女を道連れに旅をする。根室で叔母の世話で理容室につとめることになり、落ち着いたかのように見えた風子だったが、旅回りのサーカス一座のオートバイ乗り・トニー(渡瀬恒彦)に惹かれてまた旅暮らしとなる。柴又に帰って来た寅さんに届いた報せは、風子が病床についているという話だった…
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
Akemi
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
Midori Kawamura
Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.