The official website of Kodansha's ITAN magazine announced a live-action drama adaptation of Haruko Kumota's josei manga Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu on Wednesday. The series will run for ten 44-minute episodes on NHK beginning October 12 at 10:00 p.m.

Cast
Yakumo Yuurakutei: Masaki Okada (live-action Gintama)
Yotarou: Ryou Ryuusei (live-action Orange)
Konatsu: Riko Narumi (live-action Hachimitsu to Clover)
Miyokichi: Aya Oomasa (live-action Paradise Kiss)
Sukeroku: Ikusaburo Yamazaki (live-action Totsuzen desu ga, Ashita Kekkon Shimasu)

Staff
Director: Yuki Tanada (Hyakuman-en to Nigamushi Onna), Makoto Kiyohiro (Oyaji no Senaka), Tatsuo Kobayashi (Gassoh)
Script: Daisuke Habara (Hula Girls)
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu (Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta)
Rakugo Supervision: Kyoutarou Yanagiya (Rakugo Storyteller)

Kumota launched the manga in bi-monthly magazine ITAN, where it was serialized between March 2010 and June 2016. Kodansha published the tenth and final volume in September 2016. The manga has over 1.9 million copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.

The series inspired a two-episode OVA in 2015 before a TV anime adaptation by Studio Deen in Winter 2016, which covered the first five volumes. A 12-episode second season aired the following Winter, adapting the remainder of the manga. Crunchyroll simulcast both seasons as they aired in Japan.

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu won the Excellence Award in the manga category at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, Best General Manga at the 38th Kodansha Manga Awards, placed fourth in the 5th Manga Taisho Award, and was among the top ten manga in the female readers category in the 2018 Kono Manga ga Sugoi rankings. Kumota also won the New Creators Prize for the manga at the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize last April.

Kodansha Comics USA licensed the series in North America, and has been publishing it both digitally and physically since last January and May, respectively. The seventh print volume went on sale on June 5.

Source: Comic Natalie