The invention discloses a method and equipment for recycling toluene diamine from tar. The method comprises the following steps: heating tar containing toluene diamine in a film evaporator, and then recycling the evaporated steam. The film evaporator comprises a cylinder body and a motor assembly arranged on the top part of the cylinder body, and the surface of the lateral side of the cylinder body is provided with an interlayer, which is used for circulating fluid. The motor assembly comprises a motor and a rotating shaft arranged on the motor, the rotating shaft is vertically arranged in the cylinder body from the top of the cylinder body, and the lower part of the rotating shaft is provided with a scraper plate. The method can recycle toluene diamine from tar in one step, thus the resource waste is reduced, and the production cost is reduced too. Moreover, the energy consumption of the method is low, 500 to 600 kw of energy is consumed for recycling each ton of toluene diamine, and the method for recycling toluene diamine can be applied to industrial production.