The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Jan 06, 1980 (ja) Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama [24] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jan 06, 1980
  • Production
    Nippon Animation
  • Rotten tomato
    77.46%
  • Original title
    トム・ソーヤーの冒険
  • Release
    Jan 06, 1980
  • ja
    -

Overview

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a Japanese anime series, directed by Hiroshi Saitô which was aired in 1980. It is based on the well-known and popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on Fuji TV that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story of Western literature, and was originally titled "Tom Sawyer no Bōken". It was the second installment of the series, after 1977's Rascal the Raccoon, to feature the work of an American author. This series was also dubbed to English by Saban International and aired on HBO circa 1988 under the title "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." It aired during the 7:30AM time slot and alternated with the later WMT version of "Little Women." Celebrity Home Entertainment released videos in the United States under the title "All New Adventures of Tom Sawyer". As of January 2011, the anime is airing in the United States on the NHK's cable channel TV Japan.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Casts

  1. Masako Nozawa

    Tom Sawyer (voice)

  2. Kazuyo Aoki

    Huckleberry Finn (voice)

  3. Keiko Han

    Becky Thatcher (voice)

  4. Ichiro Nagai

    Prof. Dobbins (voice)

  5. Ikuo Nishikawa

    Jim Hollis (voice)

  6. Kaoru Kurosu

    Emmy (voice)

  7. Kaoru Ozawa

    Mary (voice)

  8. Naoki Tatsuta

    Billy (voice)

  9. Natsuko Kawaji

    Sally (voice)

  10. Sumiko Shirakawa

    Sid Sawyer (voice)

  11. Yoshiko Matsuo

    Benny (voice)

  12. Minoru Yada

    Silas (voice)

  13. Ichirô Murakoshi

    Father (voice)

  14. Haru Endō

    Mrs. Boly (voice)

  15. Atsuko Mine

    (voice)

  16. Bin Shimada

    (voice)

  17. Chiyoko Kawashima

    (voice)

  18. Eiji Kanie

    (voice)

  19. Eken Mine

    (voice)

  20. Issei Futamata

    (voice)

  21. Kazuhiko Inoue

    Joe Harper (voice)

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 21 / Crews : 6

Season 1 ( 1980-01-06)

The small world of Tom Sawyer

Episode: 1

Hand games, evil games

Episode: 2

A great love

Episode: 3

The magic spell

Episode: 4

Becky

Episode: 5

Huck's house

Episode: 6

Competition

Episode: 7

Panic at board

Episode: 8

The children of aunt Polly

Episode: 9

The treasure

Episode: 10

Pirates

Episode: 11

The professor

Episode: 12

I want to be a pirate

Episode: 13

Pirates don't go to school

Episode: 14

Ah! the adventure...

Episode: 15

The pirates crush black

Episode: 16

Good old days

Episode: 17

Reconciliation

Episode: 18

The frog contest

Episode: 19

The secrecy of mr. Dobbins

Episode: 20

The holidays begin

Episode: 21

The charlatan

Episode: 22

Fishing party

Episode: 23

Huck carries a tie

Episode: 24

A stubborn boy

Episode: 25

Lisette

Episode: 26

The rising of the curtain

Episode: 27

Helping Lisette

Episode: 28

Goodbye Lisette

Episode: 29

Huck's father

Episode: 30

The candlestick

Episode: 31

Gold, gold!

Episode: 32

The escape to freedom

Episode: 33

The man who came from the cold

Episode: 34

Tom wants to fly in the sky

Episode: 35

To fly or not to fly?

Episode: 36

Goodbye, Arthur!

Episode: 37

The drama

Episode: 38

A question of confidence

Episode: 39

The lawsuit

Episode: 40

The undesirable

Episode: 41

A happy journey

Episode: 42

The white horse

Episode: 43

The capture

Episode: 44

Freedom

Episode: 45

The haunted house

Episode: 46

The sighs cave

Episode: 47

End of Joe the Indian

Episode: 48

All is well

Episode: 49
Jan 06, 1980 (ja)
Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama
[24] Min
  • First Air Date Jan 06, 1980
  • Production
    Nippon Animation
  • Rotten tomato 77.46%
Original Title トム・ソーヤーの冒険
ja

Overview

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a Japanese anime series, directed by Hiroshi Saitô which was aired in 1980. It is based on the well-known and popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on Fuji TV that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story of Western literature, and was originally titled "Tom Sawyer no Bōken". It was the second installment of the series, after 1977's Rascal the Raccoon, to feature the work of an American author. This series was also dubbed to English by Saban International and aired on HBO circa 1988 under the title "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." It aired during the 7:30AM time slot and alternated with the later WMT version of "Little Women." Celebrity Home Entertainment released videos in the United States under the title "All New Adventures of Tom Sawyer". As of January 2011, the anime is airing in the United States on the NHK's cable channel TV Japan.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer