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Tiger & Dragon
Japanese Drama - 2005, 11 episodes8.0
The tale of Tiger & Dragon revolves around Rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese comedy that can look back on an impressive 400 year long history. Nagase portrays the Yakuza follower Toraji who goes to a Rakugo performer…
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes8.3
Over the course of the Showa era, Yakumo, enters the alluring and mysterious world of rakugo, (a traditional Japanese comic performance art) he forges a very strong friendship with the impulsive and bashful Yurakutei,…
Idaten
Japanese Drama - 2019, 47 episodes8.2
Follow up the story of 52 years and covers three editions of 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1964 Tokyo Olympics where it features the two lead characters Kanakuri Shisou as the first Japanese man to…
Chanpon Tabetaka
Japanese Drama - 2015, 9 episodes7.7
In early 1965, a child violinist who was expected to be a prodigy, came up to Tokyo from Nagasaki and lived in lodgings. In the 1970s, the violinist faced a setback during the uproar over the US-Japan security treaty.…
Aka Medaka
Japanese Special - 2015, 1 episodes7.7
While watching a performance by Tatekawa Danshi, Danshyn decided as a child he wanted to become a rakugo storyteller. Danshi tells Dansyun “I will take you on as an apprentice only if you have your parent’s permission”,…
Chiritotechin
Japanese Drama - 2007, 151 episodes7.5
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B…
Talk, Talk, Talk
Japanese Movie - 20077.5
Mitsuba is determined to become a successful rakugoka (traditional storyteller/comedian). He’s not particularly good at his craft and often has people walking out of his performances. His maestro refers to him as an…
Rakugo Monogatari
Japanese Movie - 20117.4
Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple, and…
Something Like, Something Like It
Japanese Movie - 20166.7
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
Bokura Teki ni wa Risou no Rakugo
Japanese Drama - 2021, 13 episodes5.2
A fudanshi storyteller tells a story and a pair of two people performs a rakugo dialogue! They are a rakugo group that specializes in BL. Different pairs of storytellers with rich individuality perform different love…
Neboke
Japanese Movie - 2016
A drama depicting, along with the traditional art of rakugo (comical stories) and kagura (Shinto music and dance), the love and squabbles of a rakugo storyteller unable to face life and his girlfriend who clings to the…
His Master's Voice
Japanese Movie - 20148.5
A heartwarming drama devised by rakugo performer Hayashia Taihei. It presents an affectionate depiction of the highs and lows of ordinary people, and weaves a traditional rakugo story into its narrative. Music video…
Rakugo Eiga
Japanese Movie - 2013
Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three short films.
The Storyteller's Apprentice
Japanese Movie - 20136.0
A heartwarming comedy set in the world of rakugo (comedic storytelling). Perennial warm-up act Pikacchi busily carries out various errands in the green room, just as he does every day. Meanwhile, the act that is supposed…
The Daughter of Rakugo
Japanese Movie - 20089.0
Rakugo Musume tells the story of Kazumi Nakamura, fascinated by the art of rakugo since her uncle took her to see a performance when she was a junior high school student. After graduating from university, Kazumi joins…
A Hardest Night!
Japanese Movie - 20066.7
Makino Masahiko’s new film, Nezu no Ban (a.k.a. A Hardest Night), is a touching and often hilarious celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed…
Something Like It
Japanese Movie - 19818.0
In a film about Rakugo, which is a traditional Japanese sit-down comedy, a man living in Tokyo is a young comic practitioner starting out. On his birthday he visits a Soapland (sexually themed bath house) for the first…
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