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Descending Stories: Showa and Genroku Era Lovers' Suicide Through Rakugo
13 episodes · premiered Jan 9, 2016
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- Episode 1: Episode 1 Jan 9, 2016 · 48m "I've got nothing, so I'm going there." Former small-time crook Yotaro has never forgotten the rakugo tale "Shinigami" that the great artist Yurakutei Yakumo performed to him in prison…
- Episode 2: Episode 2 Jan 16, 2016 · 26m Yakumo begins the story of the promise he made with Sukeroku. When he was young, he was taken in by the 7th generation Yakumo and named Kikuhiko. He met the young boy Sukeroku, a strange…
- Episode 3: Episode 3 Jan 23, 2016 · 26m After their first performance, Kikuhiko sharply feels the difference in skill between himself and Hatsutaro. Hatsutaro recommends he try erotic stories, but Kikuhiko is struggling so hard…
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Jan 30, 2016 · 26m Kikuhiko and Hatsutaro, promoted to futatsume, left their master's house to live an impoverished life on their own. Ever since changing his name to Sukeroku, Hatsutaro's popularity has…
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Feb 6, 2016 · 26m After a performance, Sukeroku comes home drunk with girls on both arm. Work or play, he navigates all areas of life smoothly. Kikuhiko is annoyed with him, but he's also jealous of how…
- Episode 6: Episode 6 Feb 13, 2016 · 26m Kikuhiko is feeling better about himself after the success of the play, with the audience hanging on his every word and gesture. Sukeroku tells him that he had a similar experience during…
- Episode 7: Episode 7 Feb 20, 2016 · 26m After finding his own rakugo, Kikuhiko has become quite popular. Even when he's out with Miyokichi, rakugo is all he can think about. Meanwhile, Sukeroku is buoyed into arrogance by his…
- Episode 8: Episode 8 Feb 27, 2016 · 26m Kikuhiko's tour with the 7th Generation Yakumo was a huge success. His master is satisfied with Kikuhiko's growth, and plans to promote him to shin'uchi soon. The problem is Sukeroku…
- Episode 9: Episode 9 Mar 5, 2016 · 26m The Seventh Generation Yakumo manages to get Kikuhiko and Sukeroku promoted to shin'uchi. But although their unveiling ceremony is a huge success, Sukeroku gets in a fight with the…
- Episode 10: Episode 10 Mar 12, 2016 · 26m For Kikuhiko, it's a time for goodbyes. To Sukeroku, with whom he shared the joys and frustrations of rakugo. To the woman who raised him as her own child. Men ask to be his apprentice…
- Episode 11: Episode 11 Mar 19, 2016 · 26m The girl Kikuhiko met at the soba shop in the hot springs town turned out to be Konatsu, Sukeroku and Miyokichi's daughter. She leads him to her house, where Kikuhiko finally reunites with…
- Episode 12: Episode 12 Mar 26, 2016 · 28m A small rakugo performance takes place at an inn in a hot springs town. As he performs, Sukeroku feels the warmth of the audience's love for rakugo, and remembers what it means to be a…
- Episode 13: Episode 13 Apr 2, 2016 · 26m Their promise to each other was to carry rakugo into the future. To perform unchanging rakugo was Kikuhiko's job. To create a rakugo that would change with the times was Sukeroku's job…