Chikaemon

Original title: ちかえもん

• 2016
• •
• Ended

• Drama

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.

Seasons

1

Episodes

8

Episode length

~45m

First aired

Jan 14, 2016

Networks

NHK

Original language

Japanese

Origin

Japan