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Watching: Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
7.5•1986-04-25•1 Seasons
Season 1
Episode 11
Seasons
Episodes
EP 1
The Izu Dancer
EP 2
The Sound of Waves Part 1: The Awakening of Spring
EP 3
The Sound of Waves Part 2: The Storm of Summer
EP 4
The Grave of the Wild Chrysanthemum
EP 5
The wind blows
EP 6
The fruit of Olympus
EP 7
Botchan: The New Teacher's Wrath!
EP 8
Botchan: Exterminate Red-Shirt!
EP 9
From "Harmonium and fish town" in Wandering Days
EP 10
The Dancing Girl
EP 11
Asunaro Story
EP 12
A Roadside Stone: Dreams of Middle School
EP 13
A Roadside Stone: Hard Times
EP 14
Growing Up
EP 15
The priest of Mount Kōya
EP 16
A Ghost Story (Kaidan): The Song of Hoichi
EP 17
The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb
EP 18
A Voice from Heaven
EP 19
The Theatre of Life
EP 20
Season of the sun: A dangerous youth
EP 21
The Tale of Shunkin
EP 22
Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 1: The Lucky Adventurer of the Kodokan Dojo
EP 23
Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 2: Deadly Mountain Thunder
EP 24
Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 3: Battle at Ukyo ga Hara
EP 25
The harp of Burma Part 1: Noplace like home
EP 26
The harp of Burma Part 2: Song of separation
EP 27
A Walker in the Attic
EP 28
A Psychological Test
EP 29
A Red Room
EP 30
The New Story of Tōno
EP 31
The Martyr
EP 32
The Story of Koyasu Dog
EP 33
Student Days
EP 34
Friendship
Overview
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).