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  • COUNTRIES: Japan
  • Subtitles: 日本語

Set during the early Showa period, Yakumo (Masaki Okada) enters the world of rakugo (storytelling performance). He forms a friendship with talented storyteller Yurakutei (Ikusaburo Yamazaki). Yakumo admires Yurakutei’s talent and struggles to achieve his level of performance. With the help of geisha Miyokichi (Aya Omasa), Yakumo grows up as a rakugo storyteller. Yurakutei and Miyokichi get married, but they die in a mysterious accident. Yakumo takes Konatsu (Riko Narumi), who is the child of Yurakutei and Miyokichi, and raises her. Konatsu grows up blaming Yakumo as her parents’ enemy. Konatsu and Yakumo’s disciple Yotaro (Ryo Ryusei) chases after the truth of her parents’ death, which Yakumo hides. Read More

Watch Descending Stories: A Life In Rakugo online. Featuring Ryusei Ryo and Riko Narumi, Descending Stories: A Life In Rakugo has 1 seasons and 10 episodes in total. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 2 services such as Amazon Video and Crunchyroll. It is classified as Drama and Comedy genre series and the average rating across the web is 0. The TV series was filmed in Japan and was first aired on 2018. Read Less