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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Opening logo
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(Tomu Soya no Boken)
Genre Comedy-drama, historical, Adventure, Western
Anime television series
Directed by Hiroshi Saito
Produced by Takaji Matsudo
Written by
Mei Kato
Takeshi Kiyose
Seijiro Koyama
Yoshiro Tomita
Tadahiko Isomi
Akira Miyazaki
Shogo Ota
Music by Katsuhisa Hattori
Studio Nippon Animation
Original network Fuji TV
English network HBO
Original run January 6, 1980 � December 28, 1980
Episodes 49
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Japanese: ??�???????, Hepburn: Tomu Soya no Boken) is
a Japanese anime television series produced by Nippon Animation and directed by
Hiroshi Saito, which premiered on January 6, 1980, and ended its run on December 28
the same year.[1][2] It is based on the 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain[3] (and partially on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).

The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on
Fuji TV, that each year showcased an animated version of a classical book or story
of Western literature, and was originally titled Tom Sawyer no Boken.[4] It was the
second installment of the series, after Rascal the Raccoon in 1977, to feature the
work of an American author.

This series was dubbed into English by Saban International and broadcast on HBO in
1988 under the title The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at 7:30 am. It alternated with
the later World Masterpiece Theater version of Little Women. Celebrity Home
Entertainment released videos in the United States under the title All New
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

A different English dub of the series has been shown in Southeast Asia. In 1997,
2008 and 2014, it was shown on ABS-CBN. In 2015 and 2016, a digitally remastered
version was shown on the ABS-CBN Digital TV subchannel Yey! in the Philippines.[5]
It has also been dubbed in other languages, including French, Italian, Arabic,
Hebrew, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Dutch and Spanish. In January 2011, it was
shown in the United States in the original Japanese on the NHK's cable channel TV
Japan.

Characters
Sawyers
Tom Sawyer: Masako Nozawa in Japanese, Barbara Goodson in English dub.
Sid Sawyer: Sumiko Shirakawa in Japanese, Brianne Siddall in English dub.
Aunt Polly: Haru Endo
Mary Sawyer: Kaoru Ozawa in Japanese, Melora Harte in English dub.
Phelpses
Sally Phelps: Natsuko Kawaji
Silas Phelps: Minoru Yada
Penny Phelps: Yoshiko Matsuo
Oscar Phelps: Kaneto Shiozawa in Japanese, Michael McConnohie in English dub.
Finns
Huckleberry Finn: Kazuyo Aoki in Japanese, Wanda Nowicki in English dub
Pap Finn: Toshiya Ueda
Thatchers
Becky Thatcher: Keiko Han
Judge Edward Thatcher: Ichiro Murakoshi
Margaret & Jeff Thatcher: Yumi Nakatani, Cam Clarke (English; Jeff)
Others
Jim: Ikuo Nishikawa
Amy Lawrence: Kaoru Kurosu, Sanae Takagi
Ben Rogers: Mie Azuma, Atsuko Mine
Alfred Temple: Masako Sugaya
Billy Fisher: Naoki Tatsuta, Ikuo Nishikawa
Muff Potter: Eken Mine in Japanese, Robert V. Barron in English dub.
Dr. Robinson: Jun Hazumi
Injun Joe: Eiji Kanie and Kenji Utsumi (episodes 38-49) in Japanese, Tom Wyner in
English dub.
Mr. Dobbins: Ichiro Nagai
Joe Harper: Kazuhiko Inoue
Sheriff Collins: Taimei Suzuki
Widow Douglas: Keiko Kuge, Barbara Goodson in English dub.
Dr. Michael Mitchell: Tadao Futami in Japanese, Michael Forest in English dub.
Dr. Helmen: Mike Reynolds in English dub.
Lisette Jean
Prosecutor: Richard Epcar in English dub.
Peter (the cat)
Caesar (the dog)
Episodes
English episode titles from the 1988 Saban dub are listed in parentheses.

# Title
1 The Small World of Tom Sawyer (???????????, Tomu to Hakku to buta sodo)
("Tom's Wild Pig Chase")
2 A Fun Punishment (??????????, Gokigen'na Penki nuri) ("The Whitewashing
Party")
3 Love At First Sight (?????????, Tomu hitomebore wo suru) ("Love at First
Sight")
4 The Magic Spell (????????????, Samu-ji-san no Omajinai) ("Turning on the
Charm")
5 Becky (??????????, Koha kotona Mono ajina Mono) ("Tom's First Date")
6 Huck's House (????????, Hakku no ie dukuri) ("Home Sweet Huck")
7 The Rival (??????, Raibaru-tojo) ("Tom Meets His Match")
8 Panic at Board (????????, Akogare no jokisen)
9 Aunt Polly is Sick (????????????, Pori-oba-san no Kodomo-tachi)
10 Injun Joe (??????, Mura no kiraware Mono)
11 The Treasure (????, Kaizoku no Takara)
12 The Professor (????�???????, Bekki Satcha ikaru)
13 The Pirates (???????, Kaizoku ni narun'da)
14 Pirates Don't Go To School (?????????, Kaizoku ni wa gakko wa nai)
15 Poor Aunt Polly (??�??????, Boken; boken mata boken)
16 The Funeral (??�???????, Tomu Soya no soshiki)
17 Back to School (?????, Hako no warui nichi) ("Tom's Moment of Glory")
18 Reconciliation (?????, Itai naka naori)
19 The Frog Race (????, Kaeru no Tatakai)
20 The Secret of Mr. Dobbins (?????????, Dobinzu-sensei no Himitsu)
21 The Summer Holidays (???????, Natsuyasumi no Hajimari)
22 The Charlatan (????????, Byoki ni naranai kusuri)
23 Fishing Party (???????, Namazu tsuri no Nichi)
24 Huck Wears a Tie (??????????, Nekutai wo shita Hakku)
25 A Stubborn Boy (???????, Ijippari Yaro)
26 Lisette (???????, Koyaku no Rizetto)
27 The Rising of the Curtain (?????????, O-shibai no Hajimaru made)
28 Help Lisette! (????????!, Rizetto wo tasukero!)
29 Goodbye Lisette (????????, Totsuzen no Sayonara)
30 Huck's Father (??????, Hakku no Chichioya)
31 The Candlestick (?????, Kazu wo kazoero)
32 Gold in Petersburg (???????!, Ogon wo mitsuketa!)
33 Escape to Freedom (??????????, Jiyu ni mukatte nigero)
34 The Man who Came from the Sky (?????????, Ten kara futte kita otoko)
35 Tom wants to Fly (??????, Sora wo tobitai)
36 Fixing the Balloon (??????, Kikyu wo naoso)
37 Goodbye Arthur (??????, Sora kara no nagame)
38 The Accident (????????, Osoroshi dekigoto)
39 A Question of Confidence (?????, Ryoshin no Itami)
40 The Trial (??�???????, Mafu Potta no Saiban)
41 Where is Injun Joe? (?????�??????, Injan Jo no namegata)
42 A Pleasant Journey (??????, Tanoshi fune no tabi)
43 The White Horse (??????, Shiroi uma wo mita)
44 The Capture (????????, Inazuma wo tsukamaero)
45 Freedom (??????, Saraba hakuba yo)
46 The Haunted House (?????, Bakemono yashiki de)
47 The Cave (?????????, Makudogaru no Dokutsu)
48 The Death of Injun Joe (?????�??????, Injan Jo no Saigo)
49 The Sad Ending (??????????, Kakko no warui Owari kata)
International titles
As aventuras de Tom Sawyer (Portuguese)
De avonturen van Tom Sawyer (Dutch)
Las Aventuras de Tom Sawyer (Spanish)
Le avventure di Tom Sawyer (Italian)
Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer (French)
Przygody Tomka Sawyera (Polish)
Tom Sawyer (Spanish)
Tom Sawyer no Boken (Japanese)
Tom Sawyers Abenteuer (German)
Tom Sawyerin ja Huckleberry Finnin seikkailut (Finnish)
Tom Story
??? ???? (Arabic)
???????? ??? ???? (Persian)
??�??????? (Japanese)
????? (Chinese (Taiwan))
Reception
Awarded Best Film Award for TV by the Children's Cultural Affairs Agency,
Government of Japan[1]
References
"??�???????". nippon-animation.co.jp. Nippon Animation. 2018. Retrieved April 17,
2018.
Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2014). Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and
Popular Culture Beyond East and West. University of Michigan Press. p. 109. ISBN
9780472052431.
Ishihara, Tsuyoshi (2005). Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an
American Icon. University of Missouri Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780826264763.
television.
Saito, Kumiko (2013). "Regionalism in the Era of Neo-Nationalism: Japanese
Landscape in the Background Art of Games and Anime from the Late-1990s to the
Present". In Lent, John A.; Fitzsimmons, Lorna (eds.). Asian Popular Culture: New,
Hybrid, and Alternate Media. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 35�58. ISBN 9780739179611.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
Further reading
Dani Cavallaro (2010) Anime and the Art of Adaptation: Eight Famous Works from Page
to Screen. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co.
Hyoseak Choi (2017) Losing the War, Winning the Pooh: Ishii Momoko and the
Construction of Contemporary Children's Literature in Postwar Japan (University of
Toronto, unpublished MA thesis).
External links
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at IMDb
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (on Amazon Prime)
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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