His Master's Voice

2014•1h 36m

Drama

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.

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LIVE VIEWING JAPAN, Aeon Entertainment, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, mytheater, L'espace Vision

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Status

Released

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Cast

Taihei Hayashiya

Taihei

Nayuta Fukuzaki

Sadakichi

Yasuko Tomita

Omasa

Gori

Matsujiro

Momoka Ohno

Okiku

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