5 Season
57 Episode
Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike
A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture scroll depicting various human characters, breathtaking battles and political struggles from the rise to fall of the Heike clan.
- Year: 1995
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama, War & Politics
- Studio: NHK G
- Keyword: puppet, heike story
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- Cast: Morio Kazama, Misako Konno, Renji Ishibashi, Leo Morimoto, Shinichiro Okano, Mahito Tsujimura