100 Pun de Meicho
100 Pun de Meicho is an NHK television program in Japan, broadcast since 2011.
Concept
The concept of the program is to shed light on a masterpiece of literature from all over the world, from classic to contemporary literature. The program invites an expert as the pundit who is best known for the selected masterpiece, in terms of both of the prominent knowledge of the title and the excellence in presentation skills to the broad audiences comprehensibly. The pundit explains the profound world of the title concisely, but insightfully and enjoyable. 100 Pun means the one title will be explained in 25 minutes per week, in a month. In the last week, the program will invite another guest commentator and have discussion sessions with the personalities and the pundit.Broadcast
Monday 22:25 - 22:50
Wednesday 5:30 - 5:55、12:00 - 12:25
Personalities
・Hikaru Ijūin
Narrators
In the program, the renowned professional narrators read the major lines of the work.Program
Regular series
Special series
| Date | Theme | Book Title | Author name | Pundit |
| 2014/1/2 | 100 Pun de Kouhuku Ron ・The Life of an Amorous Man ・The Life of an Amorous Woman 2) The Wealth of Nations 3) The Phenomenology of Spirit 4) Introduction to Psychoanalysis | 1) Ihara Saikaku 2) Adam Smith 3) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 4) Sigmund Freud | 1) Masahiko Shimada 2) Noriko Hama 3) Ken Nishi 4) Sho Suzuki | |
| 2015/1/2 | 100 Pun de Nihonjin Ron The Structure of "Iki" 2) The Book of the Dead 3) The Center-Empty Structure: the Deep Structure of Japan 4) Japanese Spirituality | 1) Shūzō Kuki 2) Shinobu Orikuchi 3) Hayao Kawai 4) Daisetsu Suzuki | 1) Seigo Matsuoka 2) Mari Akasaka 3) Tamaki Saitō 4) Shin-ichi Nakazawa | |
| 2016/1/2 | 100 Pun de Heiwa Ron Civilization and Its Discontents 2) The Mediterranean 3) The Eternal Storehouse of Japan 4) Sigmund Freud 2) Fernand Braudel 3)Ihara Saikaku 4) Voltaire | 1) Tamaki Saitō 2) Shinobu Orikuchi 3) Hayao Kawai 4) Daisetsu Suzuki | ||
| 2016/11/12 | 100 Pun de "Osamu Tezuka" | 1) ・Princess Knight ・MU 2) Astro Boy 3) Ayako 4) Phoenix:Hō-ō'' | Osamu Tezuka | 1) Bourbonne 2) Sion Sono 3)Tamaki Saitō 4) Tessyu Shaku |
Single
This was broadcast as "100 Pun de Shihonron" in.| Date | Book Title | Author name | Pundit |
| 2010/9 | Capital: Critique of Political Economy | Karl Marx | Akihito Matoba |
Awards
- Galaxy Award, January, 2016
- Hoso Bunka Foundation Awards, January, 2016