Smart-san
Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy—contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.
Year: 1979
Genre: Animation, Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Director: Waki Yamato
Cast: Ichiro Nagai, Reiko Suzuki, Atsuko Mine, Katsuji Mori, Kohei Miyauchi, Reiko Yamada
Crew: Kazuyoshi Yokota (Director), Waki Yamato (Original Story), Akira Negoro (Producer), Toru Hagiwara (Director of Photography), Nisan Takahashi (Screenplay)
First Air Date: Jun 03, 1978
Last Air date: Feb 14, 1979
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 42 Episode
Runtime: 24 minutes
IMDb: 7.80/10 by 4.00 users
Popularity: 8.0756
Language: Japanese
Season
Season 1
Episode
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