Chikaemon (Scripted, Japanese)
Genres: Comedy
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2016-01-14
Ended: 2016-03-03
Network: NHK
Country: JP
Airs on: Thursday
Air time: 20:00
Runtime: 45 minutes
Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink. The man then meets a gambler named Mankichi and his life begins to change.