Judo Boy
Judo Boy is a Japanese anime television series created by Tatsuo Yoshida and directed by his brother, Ippei Kuri. The series aired on Fuji TV from April 2, 1969, to September 24, 1969, totaling 26 episodes. While originally based on a manga by Kuri and Yutaka Arai, published by Shueisha in 1961, the series was also followed by two manga adaptations, the first written by Yoshida and illustrated by Mamoru Uchiyama published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 28 to November 17, 1968, and a four-chapters series written and illustrated by Yoshida in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 22 to July 10, 1969.
The series stars a teenage martial artist named Sanshiro, trained in the Kurenai School of Jiujitsu and centers around his search for his fathers killer. Accompanying Sanshiro is an orphaned boy named Kenbo and his pet dog Boke. Sanshiros only clue to his fathers murderer is a glass eye left on the scene of the crime, suggesting that his fathers 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 second opening theme was performed by Mitsuko Horie when she was just 12 years old.
Cast
Ikuo Nishikawa as SanshiroHiroshi Ōtake as Boke
Kenbo Kaminarimon as Kenbo
Kenji Utsumi as the Narrator
Fuyumi Shiraishi
Haruko Kitahama
Junpei Takiguchi
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Masako Ikeda
Masashi Amenomori
Rokuro Naya
Seizo Katou
Takeshi Aono
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