Nobody talks about this one. A family of samurai stubbornly refusing to leave the Edo period decides to live in 1990s Tokyo, and the show's entire joke is watching them collide with a world that moved on without them. The punchline is a kid trying to get to a date while his relatives treat modern Tokyo like a hostile territory that needs to be conquered with swords and honor codes. It's a comedy built on a single, perfect premise executed once, which means it either lands hard or doesn't land at all. For viewers who love premise-driven humor that doesn't overstay its welcome, this is exactly the right length.

A family of old-fashioned samurai lives out of step with its surroundings, which one source places in modern-day Tokyo and another in an anachronistic take on ancient Japan. Their young son, still only a preschooler, has an important date coming up. For help he turns to his ninja friend and servant, a reader of Playboy magazine whose romantic guidance is dubious at best. The single-episode comedy adventure was screened in theaters on a triple bill under the umbrella title "Akira Toriyama: The World," alongside "Pink: Water Thieves, Rain Thieves" and the sixth Dragon Ball movie.