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Judo Boy

1969 · 1 season

A scrappy vintage adventure that moves quickly through duels and clues, earnest and simple, with a boy-and-dog warmth.

Created by
Tatsuo Yoshida
Genres
Animation, Action & adventure
Overview
Sanshiro, a teenage martial artist, trains in the Kurenai School of Jiujitsu and searches for his father's killer. Accompanying Sanshiro is an orphaned boy named Kenbo and his pet dog Boke. Sanshiro's only clue to his father's murderer is a glass eye left on the scene of the crime, suggesting that his father's murderer was one-eyed.

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Created by
Tatsuo Yoshida
Genres
Animation, Action & adventure
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • revenge
    • family
    • violence
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    teen
    Form
    • serialised
    • animated
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action6
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism3
    Romance1
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity2
    Emotional weight4

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    Details

    Genres
    animation, action & adventure
    Created by
    Tatsuo Yoshida
    Written by
    Jinzo Toriumi
    Starring
    Ikuo Nishikawa, Azumato Kenbo, Kenji Utsumi, Hiroshi Otake
    Length
    1 seasons, 26 episodes, 24 min each
    Network
    Fuji TV
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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