Judo Boy

Judo Boy
Judo Boy flyer
紅三四郎 (Kurenai Sanshiro)
Genre	Action
Manga
Written by	Ippei Kuri, Yutaka Arai
Illustrated by	Tatsuo Yoshida
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Shōnen Book
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January, 1961 – March, 1962
Manga
Kurenai Sanshiro
Written by	Ippei Kuri
Illustrated by	Tatsuo Yoshida
Published by	Shogakukan Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday Weekly Shōnen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1968 – March 13, 1969
Anime television series
Directed by	Ippei Kuri
Written by	Jinzō Toriumi
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	April 2, 1969 – September 24, 1969
Episodes	26

Judo Boy (紅三四郎, Kurenai Sanshiro, "Scarlet Sanshiro") is a Japanese anime television series created by Tatsuo Yoshida and directed by Ippei Kuri. The series aired on Fuji TV from April 2, 1969 to September 24, 1969, totaling 26 episodes.

The series stars a teenage martial artist named Sanshiro (voiced by Ikuo Nishikawa), trained in the Kurenai School of Jiujitsu and centers around his search for his father's killer. Accompanying Sanshiro is an orphaned boy named Kenbo (voiced by Kenbo Kaminarimon) and his pet dog Boke (voiced by Hiroshi Otake). Sanshiro's only clue to his father's murderer is a glass eye left on the scene of the crime, suggesting that his father's murderer was one-eyed. Thus many of the villains Sanshiro fought during the course of the series were one-eyed or had one eye concealed with an eye-patch.

The opening theme was performed by Mitsuko Horie (her first) when she was just 12 years old.

External links

• Judo Boy (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia