Descending Stories: A Life In Rakugo

📊 Series Specifications

Network NHK
Episode Runtime ~45 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 10
Original Language JA

Descending Stories: A Life In Rakugo (2018)

⭐ 3.6 / 5 (6 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 10 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Comedy 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

Set during the early Showa period, Yakumo enters the world of rakugo. He forms a friendship with talented storyteller Yurakutei. Yakumo admires Yurakutei’s talent and struggles to achieve his level of performance. With the help of geisha Miyokichi, Yakumo grows up as a rakugo storyteller. Yurakutei and Miyokichi get married, but they die in a mysterious accident. Yakumo takes Konatsu, who is the child of Yurakutei and Miyokichi, and raises her. Konatsu grows up blaming Yakumo as her parents’ enemy. Konatsu and Yakumo’s disciple Yotaro chases after the truth of her parents’ death, which Yakumo hides.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1
E2 Episode 2
E3 Episode 3
E4 Episode 4
E5 Episode 5
E6 Episode 6
E7 Episode 7
E8 Episode 8
E9 Episode 9
E10 Episode 10