Garasu no Usagi
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| name = Garasu no Usagi
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| caption = First edition
| author = Toshiko Takagi
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| title_orig = ガラスのうさぎ
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| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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| genre = autobiographical novel
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| published = 1977
| publisher = 金の星社
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{{Nihongo|Garasu no Usagi|ガラスのうさぎ||The Glass Rabbit}} is a Japanese autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, who lost her sister and mother in the Great Tokyo Air Raid and saw her father killed by P-51 Mustang before her eyes at Ninomiya Station when she was 13 years old.{{cite web |url= http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-09-10/british-columbia%27s-japanese-consulate-presents-anime|title= Vancouver Japanese Consulate Presents Anime Screening|date= September 10, 2007|accessdate= December 3, 2014|work= Anime News Network}} As of 2018, the original novel has sold more than 2.4 million copies in Japan.{{cite web |url= https://book.asahi.com/article/11578865 |title=あんな死に方、もう二度と 高木敏子「ガラスのうさぎ」|date= May 30, 2018|accessdate= September 1, 2020|script-work=ja:好書好日}} It was translated into German, Spanish, Hungarian and other languages.{{cite web |url=http://www.iiclo.or.jp/100books/1946/htm/frame097.htm|title= ガラスのうさぎ |accessdate= September 1, 2020|script-work= ja:一般財団法人大阪国際児童文学振興財団}} It was adapted into a live-action film in 1979, a television drama series in 1980 and an anime film in 2005.
Adaptations
=Live-action film=
The live action film, titled Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit (東京大空襲 ガラスのうさぎ), is directed by Yūten Tachibana and was released on July 14, 1979.{{cite web |url= http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=86510|title= 東京大空襲 ガラスのうさぎ(1979)|accessdate= December 3, 2014|work= allcinema.net|publisher= Stingray|language= Japanese}}
=TV series=
The television drama series has 15 episodes and was broadcast on NHK from August 18 to September 5, 1980.{{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-18163|title= ガラスのうさぎ|accessdate= December 3, 2014|work= tvdrama-db.com|language= Japanese}}
=Anime film=
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| name = Glass no Usagi
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| director = Setsuko Shibuichi
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| writer = {{ubl|Kazumi Koide|Mitsuyo Suenaga}}
| screenplay = {{ubl|Kazumi Koide|Mitsuyo Suenaga}}
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| based_on = Garasu no Usagi by Toshiko Takagi
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| music = Michiru Ōshima
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| editing = Shigenari Nishi
| studio = Magic Bus
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| released = {{Film date|2008|5|14|Japan}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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The anime film is directed by Setsuko Shibuichi, animated at Magic Bus, and was released on May 14, 2005.{{cite web |url= http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=322094|title= ガラスのうさぎ(2005)|accessdate= December 3, 2014|work= allcinema.net|publisher= Stingray|language= Japanese}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0829177}}
- {{Anime News Network|anime|5816}}
{{Magic Bus}}
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Category:1980 Japanese television series debuts
Category:1980 Japanese television series endings
Category:Films based on Japanese novels
Category:2000s Japanese-language films
Category:Japanese autobiographical novels
Category:Japanese animated films
Category:Japanese novels adapted into films
Category:Japanese drama television series
Category:NHK original programming
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