The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980 TV series)
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| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
 Screenshot of the opening logo of the television series. First appears in ABS-CBN (English dub) 1986, now 2015. | |
| トム・ソーヤーの冒険 (Tomu Sōyā no Bōken) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama, comedy, historical, slice of life story |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Saito |
| Produced by | Takaji Matsudo |
| Music by | Katsuhisa Hattori |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | 6 January 1980 – 28 December 1980 |
| Episodes | 49 |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (トム・ソーヤーの冒険, Tomu Sōyā no Bōken) is a Japanese anime series, directed by Hiroshi Saitô which was broadcast in 1980.[1][2] It is based on the well-known and popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.[3]
The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on Fuji TV, that each year showcased an animated version of a classical book or story of Western literature, and was originally titled Tom Sawyer no Bōken.[4] It was the second installment of the series, after Rascal the Raccoon in 1977, to feature the work of an American author.
This series was dubbed into English by Saban International and broadcast on HBO in 1988 under the title The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at 7:30 am. It alternated with the later World Masterpiece Theater version of Little Women. Celebrity Home Entertainment released videos in the United States under the title All New Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
A different English dub of the series has been shown in southeast Asia. In 1997, 2008, 2010 and 2014, it was shown on ABS-CBN. In 2015 and 2016, a digitally remastered version was shown on the ABS-CBN Digital TV subchannel Yey! in the Philippines.
In January 2011, the anime was shown in the United States in the original Japanese on the NHK's cable channel TV Japan.
Characters
Sawyers
- Tom Sawyer: Masako Nozawa
- Sid Sawyer: Sumiko Shirakawa
- Aunt Polly: Haru Endo
- Mary: Kaoru Ozawa
Phelpses
- Sally Phelps: Natsuko Kawaji
- Silas Phelps: Minoru Yada
- Penny Phelps: Yoshiko Matsuo
- Oscar Phelps: Kaneto Shiozawa
Finns
Thatchers
- Becky Thatcher: Keiko Han
- Judge Edward Thatcher: Ichiro Murakoshi
- Margaret & Jeff Thatcher: Yumi Nakatani
Others
- Jim: Ikuo Nishikawa
- Amy Lawrence: Kaoru Kurosu, Sanae Takagi
- Ben Rogers: Mie Azuma, Atsuko Mine
- Alfred Temple: Masako Sugaya
- Billy Fisher: Naoki Tatsuta, Ikuo Nishikawa
- Muff Potter: Eken Mine
- Dr. Robinson: Jun Hazumi
- Injun Joe: Eiji Kanie, Kenji Utsumi
- Mr. Dobbins: Ichirō Nagai
- Joe Harper: Kazuhiko Inoue
- Sheriff Collins: Taimei Suzuki
- Widow Douglas: Keiko Kuge
- Peter (the cat)
- Caesar (the dog)
Episode list
English episode titles from the 1988 Saban dub are listed in parentheses.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Small World of Tom Sawyer ("Tom's Wild Pig Chase") |
| 2 | A Fun Punishment ("The Whitewashing Party") |
| 3 | Love At First Sight ("Love at First Sight") |
| 4 | The Magic spell ("Turning on the Charm") |
| 5 | Becky ("Tom's First Date") |
| 6 | Huck's House ("Home Sweet Huck") |
| 7 | The Rival ("Tom Meets His Match") |
| 8 | Panic at Board |
| 9 | Aunt Polly is Sick |
| 10 | Injun Joe |
| 11 | The Treasure |
| 12 | The Professor |
| 13 | The Pirates |
| 14 | Pirates Don't Go To School |
| 15 | Poor Aunt Polly |
| 16 | The Funeral |
| 17 | Back to School ("Tom's Moment of Glory") |
| 18 | Reconciliation |
| 19 | The Frog Race |
| 20 | The Secret of Mr. Dobbins |
| 21 | The Summer Holidays |
| 22 | The Charlatan |
| 23 | Fishing party |
| 24 | Huck Wears a Tie |
| 25 | A Stubborn Boy |
| 26 | Lisette |
| 27 | The Rising of the Curtain |
| 28 | Help Lisette! |
| 29 | Goodbye Lisette |
| 30 | Huck's Father |
| 31 | The Candlestick |
| 32 | Gold in Petersburg |
| 33 | Escape to Freedom |
| 34 | The man who came from the sky |
| 35 | Tom wants to fly |
| 36 | Fixing the balloon |
| 37 | Goodbye Arthur |
| 38 | The Accident |
| 39 | A Question of Confidence |
| 40 | The Trial |
| 41 | Where is Injun Joe? |
| 42 | A Pleasant Journey |
| 43 | The White Horse |
| 44 | The Capture |
| 45 | Freedom |
| 46 | The Haunted House |
| 47 | The Cave |
| 48 | The Death of Injun Joe |
| 49 | The Sad Ending |
Reception
- Awarded Best Film Award for TV by the Children's Cultural Affairs Agency, Government of Japan[1]
External links
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at IMDb
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (on Amazon Prime)
References
- ^ a b "トム・ソーヤーの冒険". nippon-animation.co.jp. Nippon Animation. 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2014). Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West. University of Michigan Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780472052431.
- ^ Ishihara, Tsuyoshi (2005). Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826264763.
- ^ Saito, Kumiko (2013). "Regionalism in the Era of Neo-Nationalism: Japanese Landscape in the Background Art of Games and Anime from the Late-1990s to the Present". In Lent, John A.; Fitzsimmons, Lorna (eds.). Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 35–58, .
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Further reading
- Dani Cavallaro (2010) Anime and the Art of Adaptation: Eight Famous Works from Page to Screen. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co.
- Hyoseak Choi (2017) Losing the War, Winning the Pooh: Ishii Momoko and the Construction of Contemporary Children's Literature in Postwar Japan (University of Toronto, unpublished MA thesis).
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