A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
November 14, 2009
Original Title:
なくもんか
Alternate Titles:
Nakumonka
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
Production Companies:
Be-Wild
Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company
Fukuoka Broadcasting System
Hiroshima Telecasting
Miyagi Television Broadcasting
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Otonakeikaku
Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company
Shizuoka Daiichi Television
TOHO
VAP
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 134
Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery, always smiling, always helpful, Yuta is known as Yama-chan, the friend everyone turns to. When Yuta discovers he had a hitherto unknown baby brother, he sets out to track him down. But the baby brother, Yusuke, has grown up to be half of a successful comedy team, the Kinjo Brothers, and Yusuke's professional "brother" has just written a best-selling book about their adventures growing up together. Yuta's appearance on the scene threatens to reveal that the book is a complete fiction and to set all three "brothers" into conflict with each other.
Art Direction:
Tsuyoshi Shimizu
Casting:
Mayumi Akashi
Toshio Akabane
Costume Design:
Mari Miyamoto
Director:
Nobuo Mizuta
Director of Photography:
Kôichi Nakayama
Editor:
Seigo Hirasawa
Executive Producer:
Seiji Okuda
Line Producer:
Kenji Kato
Original Music Composer:
Taro Iwashiro
Producer:
Keitaro Shimizu
Nobuyuki Iinuma
Writer:
Kankuro Kudo
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