Sennin Buraku

] By contrast, "Golgo 13" is the longest running manga to be serialized in a dedicated manga magazine with "Doraemon" the second longest, and "Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo" ("Kochi-Kame") the third longest (Asahi Geino is not a dedicated manga magazine). While "Sennin Buraku" has been running for more years than "Peanuts", Charles M. Schulz's strip has more "episodes" as it ran daily rather than weekly. The story was a romantic comedy taking place in historical China, and it was quite risqué for its time. The characters were very traditionally dressed (e.g. all wearing kimono).

"Sennin Buraku" was the first late night anime, broadcast shortly before midnight on Fuji TV from September 4, 1963 to February 23, 1964. This was the first anime series produced by Tele-Cartoon Japan, and a page exists on their website about it.ja icon cite web|url=http://www.eiken-anime.jp/works/works001.html|title=仙人部落|publisher=Eiken|accessdate=2007-06-04] The series was in black and white ran for 23 episodes. A live action movie was released in 1961, titled nihongo|"Fūryū Kokkei-tan: Sennin Buraku"|風流滑稽譚　仙人部落|.en icon cite web|url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0203880/|title=Furyu kokkei tan: Sennin Buraku|accessdate=2007-06-04|publisher=Internet Movie Database] Manga

While the manga has run for over fifty years now, it has had no collection volumes released in English. The only way to read the manga is to buy or subscribe to "Weekly Asahi Geinō" in Japan, or to buy the Japanese tankōbon.

Live action movie

The 83-minute live action movie was titled "Fūryū Kokkei-tan: Sennin Buraku", and was released in theaters by Shintoho on 1961-02-08.

Cast

*Akiko Matsuyama: Mayumi Ōzora
*Tenpei Naiki: Yōichi Numata
*Yōko Kondō: Mako Sanjō
*Doctor: Bokuzen Hidari
*Laundry boy: Akihiro Maruyama
*Daikichi Narayama: Bunta Sugawara

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*Director: Morihei Magatani
*Planning: Mitsuo Nakatsuka
*Screenplay: Isao Matsumoto
*Cinematographer: Shigenobu Yoshida
*Art Director: Haruyasu Kurosawa
*Music: Keitarō Miho

Anime series

Each episode of the anime series was 15 minutes long. The first eight episodes were broadcast from 23:40 to 23:55 on Wednesday nights on Fuji TV following the world news, and episodes nine through 23 were broadcast from 23:30 to 23:45 on Monday nights.

The opening theme song, "Sennin Buraku no Thema", was sung by Three Graces, arranged by Tōru Kino and the lyrics were written by Takeo Yamashita .

Cast

*Sennin: Hyakushō San'yūtei
*Ichikawa Danjūrō
*Yoshiaki Hanayagi
*Tomoko Kokai
*Ichirō Nagai

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*Director: Shigeharu Kaneko
*Screenplay: Akira Hayasaka , Tōru Kino
*Production: TCJ

Sources:ja icon cite web|url=http://www.animemorial.net/ja/3-仙人部落|title=仙人部落|publisher=Animemorial|accessdate=2007-06-04]

References

External links

* [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kojima_koo.htm/ Lambiek article about Koo Kojima]
* [http://www.animemorial.net/en/3-Sennin-Buraku Sennin Buraku] in Animemorial (contains episodes list + screenshot)