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

Orihime and Hikoboshi / The Mercy of the Priest Statue / Yatsuhashi (S01E221)

Name: Folktales from Japan - Orihime and Hikoboshi / The Mercy of the Priest Statue / Yatsuhashi
Released: 2016
Cast: Akira Emoto, Yoneko Matsukane

(episode)

Orihime to Hikoboši / Odžizó-sama no odžihi / Jacuhaši (more)
織姫と彦星 / お地蔵さまのおじひ / 八橋
Orihime to Hikoboshi / Ojizou-sama no Ojihi / Yatsuhashi (less)

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Animation / Comedy / Family

Japan, 2016, 24 min

Directed by:

Takuo Suzuki

Screenplay:

Marie Terunuma

Cast:

Akira Emoto (narrator), Yoneko Matsukane (narrator)

(more professions)

VOD (1)

Crunchyroll

Plots(1)

Orihime and Hikoboshi fall in love, but neglect their duties. They are separated eternally by the milky way. A woman is tricked by an evil mother and dies in a swamp, but she wasn't what she appeared to be. A woman's sons drown in a river, and she builds eight bridges to commemorate their deaths. (Crunchyroll)