Chiritotechin

The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.

• Release date
• October 1, 2007
• Runtime
• 15 min
• TMDB score
• 8

Cast

Shihori Kanjiya Wada Kiyomi B Megumi Sato Wada Kiyomi A Yutaka Matsushige Wada Masanori Sachie Hara Ogata Natsuko Emi Wakui Wada Itoko Munetaka Aoki Tsurezuretei Soso Tsunehiko Watase Tsurezuretei Sojaku