Chikaemon

Overview

Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink. The man then meets a gambler named Mankichi and his life begins to change.

Network

• NHK

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Suzuki Matsuo

  Chikamatsu Monzaemon

  8 eps

• 

  Munetaka Aoki

  Mankichi

  8 eps

Themes

• jidaigeki

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