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.
1956
2002
1975
2003
1973
2001
1961
1978
2009
1982
1962
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2004