Your childhood bedtime stories just filed for emotional damages.
The horrible truths behind Japanese Fairy Tales from the ancient times are finally revealed! This title includes three episodes: "The Monkey and the Crab", "Click-Crack Mountain" and "Urashima and the Kingdom beneath the Sea".
Direction
Masui weaponizes cute animation against you.
Writing
Ancient tales twisted into existential dread machines.
Sound
Voices that lull then lacerate.
Director
Soichi Masui
Sayuri Sadaoka
Saleswoman (voice) , Old woman (voice) , Tarō's Mother (voice) , Prostitute (voice) , etc
Toru Okawa
Customer (voice) , Doctor (voice) , Gaoler (voice) , Man A (voice)
Kentaro Ito
Saruzō (voice) , Townspeople B (voice) , Passer-by B (voice)
Hiroko Konishi
Woman (voice) , Daughter (voice) , Beauty B (voice)
Hiroyuki Yokoo
Old woman's son (voice) , Young man (voice) , Man B (voice)
Shigeru Nakahara
Gosaku (voice)
Yasunori Matsumoto
Unosuke (voice)
Mitsuru Ogata
Old man (voice) , Guest A (voice) , Fisher (voice)
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Urashima Tarō (voice) , Townspeople A (voice) , Passer-by A (voice)
Kenji Hamada
Townspeople C (voice) , Passer-by C (voice) , Guest B (voice) , Man C (voice)
Kazue Komiya
Turtle (voice)
Wakana Yamazaki
Dragon (voice) , Beauty A (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These are actual Japanese folklore staples taught to children; the film exposes their grim original endings that Disney-fied versions erased.
Soichi Masui later directed 'Fruits Basket'—the whiplash between this horror anthology and that healing shojo is genuinely unhinged.
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