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).
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Sumi Shimamoto
(voice)
Kazue Komiya
Geisha (voice)
Hiromi Tsuru
Setsuko (voice)
Akira Kamiya
Mizushima (voice)
Kazuko Imai
Otatsu (voice)
Masane Tsukayama
Eikichi (voice)
Akiko Takamura
Teahouse Lady (voice)
Kenichi Ogata
Merchant (voice)
Midori Kiuchi
Narrator (voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Tatsuo (voice)
Kei Tomiyama
Ritaro (voice)
Shinichiro Okano
Sasuke (voice)
Natsuko Fuji
Shigeme (voice)
Youichi Miyagawa
Yasuzaemon (voice)
Ritsuo Sawa
Zensuke (voice)
