
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

as Goro Yoda

as Yukiko

as O-Chiyo

as O-Mino

as Yasu Shima

as Yokichi Tani

as Kanzo Kumada

as Nishihara

as Minoru Eto

as Nonomiya Shin'ichi



as Noriko Takayama

as O-Sumi


as Hochin

as Hiroshi

as Koichiro Takayama


as Gonda

as Yomoyama