タイガー＆ドラゴン。

Have discovered a dramedy called タイガー＆ドラゴン (Tiger & Dragon). The premise is that a yakuza debt collector goes to lean on a rakugo performer and somehow becomes involved in rakugo. The narrative flows between naturalism—or should I say realism?—and a fanciful rakugo setting. 信じられないですね。 I'm particularly up for it now because 日本語の先生 and I recently read 猫の皿 ("The Cat's Saucer") and 習字の先生 was kind enough to lend me some recordings of rakugo. Also, one of the principals in タイガー＆ドラゴン is 西田敏行 (NISHIDA Toshiyuki), who also played Abbyさん's ramen-sensei in The Ramen Girl, a movie I find weirdly comforting. The one season of タイガー＆ドラゴン can be had online.