A Hardest Night!!
Oct 22 2005
•2h 50m
•Comedy, Drama
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.
Cast
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Kiichi Nakai
Hashita
Yoshino Kimura
Shigeko
Houka Kinoshita
Kyoshi
Takashi Sasano
Kyoji
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