Summary
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals and wakes, songs, dances, and often disgustingly crude jokes.
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 59GoodWatch 60
IMDb6.8
Audience score50%
Running time
1 h 50 min
A typical length for comedies, +10 min on the typical 100
typical 100110Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
2005
October 22, 2005
21 years ago
Genres
ComedyDramaLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
- Japan
and 3 moreDirecting · 1
- Masahiko Tsugawa Director
Writing · 2
- Sumio Ōmori Writer
- Ramo Nakajima Novel
Other crew · 1
- Mika Kurokouchi Script
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