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

The Soul That Was Hunted by the Dead / Octopus Bhaisajyaguru / The Nursing Willow (S01E124)

Name: Folktales from Japan - The Soul That Was Hunted by the Dead / Octopus Bhaisajyaguru / The Nursing Willow
Released: 2014
Cast: Akira Emoto, Yoneko Matsukane

(episode)

Módža ga neratta tamaší / Takojakuši / Uba janagi (more)
亡者が狙った魂 / たこ薬師 / 乳母柳
Mouja ga Neratta Tamashii / Tako Yakushi / Uba Yanagi (less)

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Animation / Comedy / Family

Japan, 2014, 24 min

Directed by:

Hiroshi Fukutomi, Hiromitsu Morita, Yasuo Yuasa

Screenplay:

Masumi Hirayanagi, Marie Terunuma

Cast:

Akira Emoto (narrator), Yoneko Matsukane (narrator)

(more professions)

VOD (1)

Crunchyroll

Plots(1)

A wife weaves her loom to raise money for the family, but the spirits of the dead hear the sound and come to claim her soul. A monk buys some octopus for his ailing mother, but an irritating local man calls him out. A man raises his daughter alone, and one day a woman under a willow tree gives her milk. (Crunchyroll)