A Hardest Night!! (2005)

Director
Masahiko Tsugawa

Main cast
Kiichi Nakai; Kimura Yoshino; Houka Kinoshita; Takashi Sasano; Ken Ogata

Genres
Comedy, Drama

Description
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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