Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.

• Nippon Herald Films
• Kumiko Akiyoshi
• Katsunobu Ito
• Masahiro Kobayashi
• Denden
• Takayasu Ohno
• Erika Asou
• Tomoko Igarashi
• Kaoru Kazama