Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes, each based on a selected masterpiece of modern Japanese literature. The series aims to reach a wide audience and to offer some sense of the variety and individuality Japanese literature has developed over the past hundred years. The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou ("Takekurabe"),Mori Ougai ("The Dancing Girl") and Natsume Souseki ("Botchan") to Kawabata Yasunari ("The Izu Dancer"),the 1968 Nobel laureate, and Mishima Yukio ("The Sound of Waves").