His Master's Voice

Directed by Hiroyuki Itaya

With Taihei Hayashiya, Nayuta Fukuzaki, Yasuko Tomita, Gori and Momoka Ohno

In the late 19th century, rakugo student Taihei gives up hope of making the grade, and his despair leads him to take up residence at a rowhouse in Tokyo's Fukagawa district. There he meets an emotionally distant boy named Sadakichi, and as fate would have it, he ends up teaching him rakugo.