Struggling manga artist and gambling addict, Suzuo, lives with long-suffering wife, Natsuko, and daughter, Miyu. After stealing his wife's money to visit the race track, he gets knocked down by a truck when he tries to retrieve the winnings he carelessly lost to the wind. Upon arriving in the afterlife, he meets a judge who decides to send him back as a cat. Now, as Tora-San, he has one month to turn his family's fortunes around and show his daughter the love he couldn't in life.