Nobara
Foreign title: Nihon Meisaku Dôwa Series: Aka Tori No Kokoro, 赤い鳥の心
Series title: Heart of the Red Bird
- Studio
- Shin-Ei Animation (Shin'ei Dôga)
- Animation studio
- Studio Korumi, Asia Do, Studio Junio, Tomi Production, Araki Production
- Distributor
- TV Asahi
Characters
Yoshikichi
Credits
Directing
Writing
Voices
- Voice
- Tohru Furuya (Yoshikichi)
Music
- Music
- Tadashi Kinoshita
Animation
- Animator
- Shingo Araki, Daikichiro Kusunobe
Crew
- Storyboard
- Shingo Araki
Production notes
This TV series ran for 26 episodes.
A series of literary adaptations of tales from the children's story magazine "Akai Tori" ("Red Bird"). Composer Tadahi Kinoshita decided to adapt the magazine's best stories to mark the 20th anniversary of Japanese network TV Asahi.
Stories include "Kojiro Yoshida" ("Reach to the Heaven"), "Nanikichi Niimi" ("The Cow Tethered to a Camellia Tree"), "Yaso Saijo" ("Mysterious Window"), "Kosuke Hamada" ("Weeping Red Devil"), "Shohei Hino" ("A Story About Ascending to Heaven"), "Kyoka Izumi" ("Devil's Horn"), "Ryunosuke Akutagawa" ("The Spider's Thread") and "Mimei Ogawa" ("The Mermaid and the Bed Candles").
Reportedly, Kinoshita was in early negotiations at the planning stage to bring in such famous directors as Akira Kurosawa for certain episodes. However, it appears that he was unsuccessful.
English titles: "Heart of the Red Bird" and "Japanese Masterpiece Fairytale Series: Heart of the Red Bird."
A series of literary adaptations of tales from the children's story magazine "Akai Tori" ("Red Bird"). Composer Tadahi Kinoshita decided to adapt the magazine's best stories to mark the 20th anniversary of Japanese network TV Asahi.
Stories include "Kojiro Yoshida" ("Reach to the Heaven"), "Nanikichi Niimi" ("The Cow Tethered to a Camellia Tree"), "Yaso Saijo" ("Mysterious Window"), "Kosuke Hamada" ("Weeping Red Devil"), "Shohei Hino" ("A Story About Ascending to Heaven"), "Kyoka Izumi" ("Devil's Horn"), "Ryunosuke Akutagawa" ("The Spider's Thread") and "Mimei Ogawa" ("The Mermaid and the Bed Candles").
Reportedly, Kinoshita was in early negotiations at the planning stage to bring in such famous directors as Akira Kurosawa for certain episodes. However, it appears that he was unsuccessful.
English titles: "Heart of the Red Bird" and "Japanese Masterpiece Fairytale Series: Heart of the Red Bird."