Name: Yamada Tarô monogatari
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2007-07-06
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya, Shô Sakurai, Shûgo Oshinari

Japanese cinema is celebrated for its refined minimalist dramas and avant-garde experimentation; it also introduced popular genres like jidaigeki (samurai epics), kaiju, and anime. Across both high art and mass entertainment, it often explores morality, impermanence, and the pressures of modern life.

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An extremely intelligent young man in Japan simply lives his life as a high school student and as the one in a considerably poor family who is hired for various part-time jobs, all sprinkled with cheezy but hilarious moments.

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