Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
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).
PlayEpisodes
- Play The Izu Dancer
- Play The Sound of Waves Part 1: The Awakening of Spring
- Play The Sound of Waves Part 2: The Storm of Summer
- Play The Grave of the Wild Chrysanthemum
- Play The wind blows
- Play The fruit of Olympus
- Play Botchan: The New Teacher's Wrath!
- Play Botchan: Exterminate Red-Shirt!
- Play From "Harmonium and fish town" in Wandering Days
- Play The Dancing Girl
- Play Asunaro Story
- Play A Roadside Stone: Dreams of Middle School
- Play A Roadside Stone: Hard Times
- Play Growing Up
- Play The priest of Mount Kōya
- Play A Ghost Story (Kaidan): The Song of Hoichi
- Play The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb
- Play A Voice from Heaven
- Play The Theatre of Life
- Play Season of the sun: A dangerous youth
- Play The Tale of Shunkin
- Play Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 1: The Lucky Adventurer of the Kodokan Dojo
- Play Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 2: Deadly Mountain Thunder
- Play Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 3: Battle at Ukyo ga Hara
- Play The harp of Burma Part 1: Noplace like home
- Play The harp of Burma Part 2: Song of separation
- Play A Walker in the Attic
- Play A Psychological Test
- Play A Red Room
- Play The New Story of Tōno
- Play The Martyr
- Play The Story of Koyasu Dog
- Play Student Days
- Play Friendship
