Chiritotechin (series)
ちりとてちん- User score: 8
- Production country: Japan
- Production companies: NHK
- Genre: Drama, Family
- Release date: 10/1/2007
- Release date of last episode: 3/29/2008
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 151
- Run time: 15 min.
Series description
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.
