Folktales from Japan - Hometown Rebuilding (2012) (season)

The Joroku Statue / The God of Poverty / The Carp in the Basin (S01E90)

Name: Folktales from Japan - The Joroku Statue / The God of Poverty / The Carp in the Basin
Released: 2013
Cast: Akira Emoto, Yoneko Matsukane

(episode)

Džóroku Džizó / Binbógami / Hači no koi (more)
丈六地蔵 / 貧乏神 / 鉢の鯉
Jouroku Jizou / Binbougami / Hachi no Koi (less)

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Animation / Comedy / Family

Japan, 2013, 24 min

Directed by:

Susumu Shiraume, Mitsuo Kobayashi, Takuo Suzuki

Screenplay:

Satoshi Namiki, Marie Terunuma

Cast:

Akira Emoto (narrator), Yoneko Matsukane (narrator)

(more professions)

VOD (1)

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Plots(1)

A huge rock saves a village from a flood. The villagers use it to make a giant statue, but the statue is too big to carry to the temple. But then the statue... A poor old man goes to sell balls of thread for new years. Gorouhei, a poor man, trades an old basin from his family for rice. (Crunchyroll)