Boat Life

Stars novelist Tsuda Kenta as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on the Tonegawa River in Chiba. It follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son.