A mediocre comedian teaches three students. What could go wrong? Everything. Beautifully.
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.
Acting
Taichi Kokubun's perfectly imperfect everyman energy.
Direction
Hirayama lets silences land like punchlines.
Director
Hideyuki Hirayama
Taichi Kokubun
Mitsuba
Karina
Satsuki Tokawa
Yutaka Matsushige
Taichi Yugawara
Kaoru Yachigusa
Haruko Toyama
Shirō Itō
Taichi Yugawara
Tomekichi Himuka
Sankaku Konjyakutei
Shirō Shimomoto
Iwao Sogo
Bunmei Tobayama
Suehirotei
Fusako Urabe
Ikuko Jitsukawa
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Chiamaki Kashiwaya
Yuki Morinaga
Masaru Murabayashi
Yasuhi Nakamura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rakugo requires performers to play every character using only a fan and cloth—no props, no standing, pure vocal transformation.
Taichi Kokubun was primarily known as a pop idol (TOKIO member) before this; casting him as a failed artist was deliberate meta-commentary.
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