Joshiraku - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2012

The film is based on Ukiyodoko, a rakugo storytelling piece. Hanzo, the hero, brags to his friends to make a party go. Human nature remains unchanged once and now, as the time goes. We love meaningless conversations among boon companions. Different communication methods are visually tangled in different times, Edo and today. The theme is an “interchange between the transient and the immutable.”

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2016

The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2003

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2015

When a small-time crook is released from prison, he is determined to turn his life around by apprenticing himself to the great rakugo master Yakumo VIII, inspired by his performance of "Shinigami" during his incarceration. Surprisingly, the old man agrees to train him and brings his new apprentice to his own house to live, giving him the name "Yotaro", a classical word used in rakugo meaning "fool". Yakumo has much to teach about the art of rakugo, but both he and his ward Konatsu- a hot-headed young woman whose father was also a famous storyteller- are difficult people with a shared dark past. Yakumo refuses to train her, claiming that the world of rakugo is no place for women, and Konatsu has vowed to kill him, claiming that Yakumo murdered her father!

• OVA (4 eps)
• 1992

• TV (12 eps)
• 2022

Diehard comedy fan Yayoi just enrolled in a private high school in Osaka's Nanba entertainment district, famed for launching iconic comedian careers. There, she teams up with her childhood friend and former comedy partner with the hopes of entering a local shopping center's comedy contest. That's when a mysterious girl calls out to them, changing the three's comedic fates forever...

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

After a decade of hard work, Yotaro has finally obtained the rank of Shinuchi and taken a new stage name. His rakugo still needs more refining, however, and he's still struggling to find a style that is all his own as he tries to save the art form from dying out. He has also dedicated himself to taking care of his aging master Yakumo and helping Konatsu raise her new baby. She refuses to reveal the identity of her child's father, but Yotaro has his suspicions. How many more secrets can these people possibly have? And can they preserve the rakugo they all love for future generations?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2013

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2002

After a miserly man consumes a batch of freshly-fallen cherries (seeds included), he finds himself in a hairy and unfortunate situation - a small cherry tree has sprouted from his balding forehead! With his mountain-like head becoming a tourist attraction, what's a miser to do?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2006

Tsukishima Yui and 5 other girls were summoned into the Edo period by a mysterious stones and each one of them had a power to protect people from evil and yui's power were ''words'' her hope-giving kind words.