1993年，以“林氏盖饭”做招牌菜的饭店里有着幸福的一家，这晚三个孩子偷偷出去看流星躲过了灭门的惨案，当他们回来时发现父母已被刺杀身亡。
到了2008年，大哥有明功一（二宫和也 Kazunari Ninomiya 饰）在一家料理店打工，却不肯为客人再做一次家传的“林氏盖饭”；二弟泰辅（锦户亮 Ryo Nishikido 饰）和妹妹静奈（户田惠梨香 Erika Toda 饰）在东京共租一个房间。三人的生活都有点吊儿郎当，是当年惨案以及相依为命成长的童年的后遗症。眼看到11月就会过了案件诉讼期了，他们三兄妹立誓一定要把当年杀害父母的凶手抓出来。
他们没想到，最大的误算来自于妹妹的恋爱。

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.