Animated Classics of Japanese Literature S1E1

Episodes

1. The Izu Dancer

2. The Sound of Waves Part 1: The Awakening of Spring

3. The Sound of Waves Part 2: The Storm of Summer

4. The Grave of the Wild Chrysanthemum

5. The wind blows

6. The fruit of Olympus

7. Botchan: The New Teacher's Wrath!

8. Botchan: Exterminate Red-Shirt!

9. From "Harmonium and fish town" in Wandering Days

10. The Dancing Girl

11. Asunaro Story

12. A Roadside Stone: Dreams of Middle School

13. A Roadside Stone: Hard Times

14. Growing Up

15. The priest of Mount Kōya

16. A Ghost Story (Kaidan): The Song of Hoichi

17. The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb

18. A Voice from Heaven

19. The Theatre of Life

20. Season of the sun: A dangerous youth

21. The Tale of Shunkin

22. Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 1: The Lucky Adventurer of the Kodokan Dojo

23. Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 2: Deadly Mountain Thunder

24. Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 3: Battle at Ukyo ga Hara

25. The harp of Burma Part 1: Noplace like home

26. The harp of Burma Part 2: Song of separation

27. A Walker in the Attic

28. A Psychological Test

29. A Red Room

30. The New Story of Tōno

31. The Martyr

32. The Story of Koyasu Dog

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Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

Animation

Drama

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature. The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years. The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).

Date: 04/25/1986

Rating: 7.0

Cast: n/a