Season
- Season 1 1986-04-25
Episode
- Episode 1: The Izu Dancer
- Episode 2: The Sound of Waves Part 1: The Awakening of Spring
- Episode 3: The Sound of Waves Part 2: The Storm of Summer
- Episode 4: The Grave of the Wild Chrysanthemum
- Episode 5: The wind blows
- Episode 6: The fruit of Olympus
- Episode 7: Botchan: The New Teacher's Wrath!
- Episode 8: Botchan: Exterminate Red-Shirt!
- Episode 9: From "Harmonium and fish town" in Wandering Days
- Episode 10: The Dancing Girl
- Episode 11: Asunaro Story
- Episode 12: A Roadside Stone: Dreams of Middle School
- Episode 13: A Roadside Stone: Hard Times
- Episode 14: Growing Up
- Episode 15: The priest of Mount Kōya
- Episode 16: A Ghost Story (Kaidan): The Song of Hoichi
- Episode 17: The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb
- Episode 18: A Voice from Heaven
- Episode 19: The Theatre of Life
- Episode 20: Season of the sun: A dangerous youth
- Episode 21: The Tale of Shunkin
- Episode 22: Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 1: The Lucky Adventurer of the Kodokan Dojo
- Episode 23: Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 2: Deadly Mountain Thunder
- Episode 24: Sanshiro the Judoist Chapter 3: Battle at Ukyo ga Hara
- Episode 25: The harp of Burma Part 1: Noplace like home
- Episode 26: The harp of Burma Part 2: Song of separation
- Episode 27: A Walker in the Attic
- Episode 28: A Psychological Test
- Episode 29: A Red Room
- Episode 30: The New Story of Tōno
- Episode 31: The Martyr
- Episode 32: The Story of Koyasu Dog
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature Season 1 The wind blows
A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature.
The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years.
The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).
