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Warai no daigaku (2004)
A drama of making a drama,
This is a drama of writing a drama. Mainly, there are only two characters, a comedy writer and a censor, in the drama.
Both are very symbolized (thus, the drama can go on with the only two persons)- the writer can't stop writing something funny and the censor has not laughed in his whole lifetime.
And one of the themes is certainly to insist the strength of comedy so the censor, as an incarnation of "anti-humor", gradually inclines toward the comedy writer with showing his hidden ability of writing a comedy.
Being a tragedy of the writer, as he finally gets drafted, but also this is a tragedy of the censor.
The censor is depicted as an obstinate but fundamentally common and good guy in the similar sense that Hannah Arendt wrote about Eichmann. In the beginning, the censor introduces him to the writer that he just had returned to Japan and previously suppressed rebellion against the Empire in Manchu. It is not described but suggested that he had enrolled in duty which might be judged in the court after the war.