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
See allKiichi Nakai
Hashita
Yoshino Kimura
Shigeko
Houka Kinoshita
Kyoshi
Takashi Sasano
Kyoji
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