Something Like, Something Like It(HKAFF 2016)

After director Morita Yoshimitsu passed away in 2011, his longtime assistant director Sugiyama Taiichi and many actors whom he had worked with came together to make a sequel to Morita’s 1981 debut film Something Like It. The cast of the original film are joined by Matsuyama Kenichi, who starred in Morita’s last film Train Brain Express, and Kitagawa Keiko, who made her acting debut in Morita’s The Mamiya Brothers. In this light-hearted homage, Matsuyama is Shinden, an overly serious, ineffectual performer of the traditional comedic storytelling art of rakugo. His teacher sends him on a mission to find senior performer Shintoto who has quit rakugo in favor of a more carefree life.