Folktales from Japan

S1 E1 · ふるさと再生 日本の昔ばなし

Folktales from Japan — Season 1, Episode 148: The Golden Egg / The Man Who Became a Turtle / Sannennetarou

Animation, Drama25 min6 seasons, 346 episodes9.0/10

Episode synopsis

A man finds a golden egg and takes it home, and a baby hatches from it. A man is cruel to his hard-working wife, who leaves him. Then he turns into a turtle. A lazy man sleeps all day, when a drought comes its time for him to work. Source: crunchyroll

About Folktales from Japan

Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan is a Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. The narration and all character voices are provided by veteran Japanese film actors Akira Emoto and Yoneko Matsukane. An English-subtitled version began "simulcast" availability on the streaming service Crunchyroll March 12, 2012.

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