Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (1986)
Original title: 青春アニメ全集
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature is a 1986 Japanese-language animation series. It stars Sumi Shimamoto, Kazue Komiya and Hiromi Tsuru.
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).
Cast
- Sumi Shimamoto as (voice)
- Kazue Komiya as Chiyoko (voice)
- Hiromi Tsuru as Setsuko (voice)
- Akira Kamiya as Mizushima (voice)
- Kazuko Imai as Otatsu (voice)
- Masane Tsukayama as Eikichi (voice)
- Akiko Takamura as Teahouse Lady (voice)
- Kenichi Ogata as Merchant (voice)
- Midori Kiuchi as Narrator (voice)
- Toshio Furukawa as Tatsuo (voice)
- Kei Tomiyama as Ritaro (voice)
- Shinichiro Okano as Sasuke (voice)