The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor (1980)
A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was unprepared for what life will throw at him. The room next to him boards a local gangster whose gang is a menace to the neighborhood, a bit further down lives a boy who dresses like a woman. And the old people managing the boarding house are quite peculiar too. Based on the manga by Leiji Matsumoto.
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Drama, Comedy
- Studio : Nikkatsu Corporation
- Director : Chūsei Sone, Leiji Matsumoto
- Cast : Izumi Hara, Yutaka Hayashi, Guts Ishimatsu, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Chieko Matsumoto, Tsutomu Sekine