Anorexia
- Studio
- Tezuka Productions
Characters
Black Jack, Pinoko, Movie Star, Kiriko
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Osamu Dezaki
Producing
- Producer
- Osamu Shoji, Kiyoshi Suzuki
Writing
- Writer
- Eto Mori, Kihachi Okamoto
Animation
- Animator
- Akio Sugino
Crew
- Design
- Akio Sugino
Production notes
Black Jack first ran in "Shonen Champion" magazine from 1973 to 1978. Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 live-action film "Stranger in Her Eyes" cast Daisuke Ryu as Black Jack.
The manga was dormant during most of the 1980s, but was reissued.
In 1993, the team of Osamu Dezaki and Akio Sugino made an anime version on video as part of a plan to produce animated versions of all of Osamu Dezuka's work.
In 1995, Black Jack returned to live-action films with a trilogy directed by Kazuya Konaka and written by Izo Hashimoto. Ryu returned to the lead role. The third film in the trilogy retold the encounter with Kiriko depicted in the video series.
In 1996, one more live-action movie was released. That year, the 93-minute animated feature film "Burakku Jakku" ("Black Jack the Movie") was released as well.
After the movie, three more 50-minute direct-to-video episodes were produced: "Green Memories," "The Face in the Affliction" and "Sinking Woman."
Pinoko ("pinochle") was named as Black Jack's companion as a form of word play, in that pinochle and blackjack are both card games.
The manga was dormant during most of the 1980s, but was reissued.
In 1993, the team of Osamu Dezaki and Akio Sugino made an anime version on video as part of a plan to produce animated versions of all of Osamu Dezuka's work.
In 1995, Black Jack returned to live-action films with a trilogy directed by Kazuya Konaka and written by Izo Hashimoto. Ryu returned to the lead role. The third film in the trilogy retold the encounter with Kiriko depicted in the video series.
In 1996, one more live-action movie was released. That year, the 93-minute animated feature film "Burakku Jakku" ("Black Jack the Movie") was released as well.
After the movie, three more 50-minute direct-to-video episodes were produced: "Green Memories," "The Face in the Affliction" and "Sinking Woman."
Pinoko ("pinochle") was named as Black Jack's companion as a form of word play, in that pinochle and blackjack are both card games.