Screenplay: Seijirô Kôyama

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time...

Direction Hiroshi Saitô

Plot Tom Sawyer is a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the mid 1800s. Along with his best friend Huckleberry Finn, he spends his days ditching school, fishing,...

Direction Isao Takahata · Shigeo Koshi · Kôzô Kusuba · Kazuyoshi Yokota

Plot Based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this 50 episode series tells the story of Anne Shirley, a young orphan living in 19th century Canada.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Fumie Kashiyama · Ryoma Ikegami · Osahide Takahashi · Eiji Kakutani

Plot Based on the life of senryu poet Akira Tsura (1909-1938) - who consistently condemned war and capitalism.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yoshi Kato · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kirin Kiki · Fumie Kashiyama

Plot Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Jin Hirao · Kôsuke Suzuki

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Chieko Baisho · Tamami Hirose · Gin Maeda · Mako Ishino

Plot April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Morio Kazama · Yûko Tanaka · Hisashi Igawa · Takashi Shimura

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yasuko Sawaguchi · Miki Sakai · Kumiko Goto · Yuri Nakae

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoto Ogata · Masao Hayashi · Ryuzo Hayashi

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hiroshi Sakuma · Yôko Minamino · Kirin Kiki