Moonlight Mask

The story

The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".

Cast & crew

Itsuji Itao

Comic Storyteller Morinoga

Tadanobu Asano

Taro Okamoto

Satomi Ishihara

Yayoi

Gin Maeda

Tenraku Morinoga

Rokkaku Seiji

Kinta Morinoga

Tasuku Emoto

Shotaro Morinoga

Taro Yabe

Yasuomi Sano

Oama Morinoga

Shota Chiyo

Tenjo Morinoga

Yuichi Kimura

Platoon Leader Hirao

Kanji Tsuda

Soldier Kumakura

Jun Kunimura

Owner of Show Place

Hiroyuki Miyasako

Bunchou Kagura

Houka Kinoshita

Utamaro Tsubakiya