Warotenka

Description

Set during the late Meiji era to post-World War II period at Osaka, featuring the lead character Fujioka Ten who is modeled after Yoshimoto Sei, the founder of Yoshimoto Kogyo and a female comedy show promoter. Ten is born into a family managing a drug wholesale business in Kyoto and meets Kitamura Tōkichi who is the son of a family in the rice dealing business. When they fall in love, Ten goes against her parents’ wishes to marry Tokichi who is a big lover of comedy. Ten unwittingly becomes the manager of a vaudeville theater with her husband, and eventually becomes the first woman in Japan to make comedy into a business, transforming Osaka into a capital of comedy.

Country: Japanese

Status: completed

Released: 2017

Genre: Business, Comedy, Drama, Family, Historical, life, Romance

Cast: Aoi Wakana, Chiba Yudai, Doi Reina, Edamoto Moe, Endo Kenichi, Fujii Takashi, Hamada Gaku, Hirose Alice, Hotta Mayu, Hyodo Daiki, Kawamura Miku, Maeda Oshiro, Maeno Tomoya, Matsuzaka Tori, Ohgo Suzuka, Ohno Takuro, Okamoto Rei, Oyagi Kaito, Suzuki Fuku, Suzuki Honami, Suzuki Kyoka, Suzuki Tamayo, Takahashi Issei, Takeshita Keiko, Tokuda Naomi, Tokunaga Eri, Uchiba Katsunori