Documentary film on wheelchair-bound "rakugoka" hits screens

Photo taken Aug. 31, 2016, at Asakusa Engei Hall theater in central Tokyo, shows Hayashiya Kanpei, a speech-impaired, wheelchair-bound "rakugoka" storyteller. His struggle to return to the stage after suffering a stroke is the focus of the new documentary film "Namidano Kazudake Warao-yo (Let's Laugh As Many Times As We Cry)." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo