Screenplay: Haruko Kumota

Direction Mamoru Hatakeyama

Plot TV Series (2016). 13 Episodes. When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's rendition...

Direction Yuki Tanada · Makoto Kiyohiro · Tatsuo Kobayashi

Cast Mitsuru Hirata · Takuji Kawakubo · Riko Narumi · Aya Oomasa

Plot Yotaro aspires to a career in the Rakugo, a traditional Japanese performing art of theatre storytelling. But his apprenticeship to the rakugo master Kikuhiko is difficult, especially when he starts...

Direction Mamoru Hatakeyama · Hiroaki Akagi · Kenichi Takeshita

Plot OVA Mini-series (2015). 2 Episodes. The year was 1970s. Fascinated by the performance of rakugo master Yakumo the 8th at a philanthropic show in a prison, delinquent Kyōji visited Yakumo...

Direction Mamoru Hatakeyama

Plot TV Series (2017). 12 Episodes. Ex-convict turned Rakugo apprentice Yotaro has finally taken the name of Yurakutei Sukeroku III, and with his master Yakumo's permission has attained the lofty rank...