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series by Kō Kojima which ran in the adult magazine ''
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'', published by
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in
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. It is the longest running comic with only one artist, being published weekly since October 1956, and the longest-running strip ever in Japan. By contrast, '' Golgo 13'' is the longest running manga to be serialized in a dedicated manga magazine with ''
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'' the second longest, and ''
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'' (''Kochi-Kame'') the third longest (Asahi Geino is not a dedicated manga magazine). While ''Sennin Buraku'' has been running for more years than ''
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'',
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's strip has more "episodes" as it ran daily rather than weekly. The story was a romantic comedy taking place in historical
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, and it was quite risqué for its time. The characters were very traditionally dressed (e.g. all wearing
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). Although the anime is very hard to find, it has been rerun on Japanese television, all episodes have appeared on DVD (save for episodes 12 and 19), and episodes have been saved on Internet torrents. ''Sennin Buraku'' was the first
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, broadcast shortly before midnight on
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from September 4, 1963 to February 23, 1964. This was the first
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series produced by Tele-Cartoon Japan, and a page exists on their website about it. The series was in black and white and ran for 23 episodes. A
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movie was released in 1961, titled . With the August 7, 2014 issue, it was announced that the series would be placed on hiatus. The death of the artist on April 14, 2015 puts any future chapters of Sennin Buraku in doubt.http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASH4K5K8GH4KUCLV00L.html?iref=comtop_6_05


Plot summary

''Sennin Buraku'' takes place in Taoyuan, a small
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village, populated solely by
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s. The eldest, Lao Shi, conducts research into magic and
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, while his
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Zhi Huang remains more interested in
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. He has fallen for three pretty
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s who live nearby, much to Lao Shi's annoyance.


Manga

While the manga has run in ''
Weekly Asahi Geinō , often shortened to simply ''Asahi Geinō'' or , is a shūkanshi founded by Hirotomo Takei and published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan. It was first published under the title in January 1946, though the title and size were changed to the current one ...
'' for over fifty years, there have been no translations of it.


Live action movie

The 83-minute live action movie was titled ''Fūryū Kokkei-tan: Sennin Buraku'', and was released in theaters by
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on 1961-02-08.


Cast

*Akiko Matsuyama: Mayumi Ōzora *Tenpei Naiki:
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*Yōko Kondō: Mako Sanjō *Doctor:
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*Laundry boy: Akihiro Maruyama *Daikichi Narayama:
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Staff

*Director: Morihei Magatani *Planning: Mitsuo Nakatsuka *Screenplay: Isao Matsumoto *Cinematographer: Shigenobu Yoshida *Art Director: Haruyasu Kurosawa *Music: Keitarō Miho


Anime series

Each episode of the anime series was 15 minutes long. The first eight episodes were broadcast from 23:40 to 23:55 on Wednesday nights on
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following the world news, and episodes nine through 23 were broadcast from 23:30 to 23:45 on sunday nights. The opening theme song, ''Sennin Buraku no Thema'', was sung by Three Graces, arranged by Tōru Kino and the lyrics were written by
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.


Cast

*Sennin: Hyakushō San'yūtei * Ichikawa Danjūrō * Yoshiaki Hanayagi * Tomoko Kokai *
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Staff

*Director: Shigeharu Kaneko *Screenplay:
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, Tōru Kino *Production: TCJ Sources:


References


External links


Lambiek article about Koo Kojima

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