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Puppet Master Sakon (TV)

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© Sharakumaro • Takeshi Obata/Shueisha • Victor Entertainment • TMS


[ adapted from Ayatsuri Sakon (manga) ]
Alternative title:
Ayatsuri Sakon
Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon (Japanese)
Sakon le Ventriloque (French)
Sakon the Ventriloquist
Tales of Puppetmaster Sakon
人形草紙あやつり左近 (Japanese)
Genres: action, mystery
Themes: puppetry
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Sakon is the grandson of the famous Bunraku master, Tachibana Zaemon. He is incredibly shy and lacks confidence in himself. However, when he is with his puppet, Ukon, he is able to focus himself and his crime-solving abilities. As a contrast to traditional Bunraku puppeteering, Sakon is an expert ventriloquist. He uses his talent of mimicing and throwing voices to confront the villains and often force a confession. Ukon is a beautiful Bunraku puppet created in 1870, supposedly by the Master puppet-builder Unosuke Koizumi III. But Ukon doesn't act as a good Bunraku puppet should. When he is with Sakon, he is forward, obnoxious, flirtatious, coarse, and very egocentric. Together, Sakon and Ukon travel around Japan, solving mysteries, murders, and horrific crimes. In the meantime, Sakon's aunt Kaoruko, a young and pretty police detective, helps him out and keeps an eye on him.
User Ratings: 96 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Excellent: 19 votes (sub:15, raw:2, ?:2)
 Very good: 18 votes (sub:18)
 Good: 21 votes (sub:18, raw:2, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 16 votes (sub:13, raw:2, English:1)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:7, raw:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 264 users, rank: #1515
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.021 (Good+.02), std. dev.: 1.9734, rank: #1660
Weighted mean: 6.947 (Good-.05), rank: #1634 (seen all: 7.58 / seen some: 6.69 / won't finish: 5.35)
Bayesian estimate: 7.003 (Good+.00), rank: #1309
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage: 1999-10-08 to 2000-03-31
Opening Theme:
"Hikari naki Yoru wo Yuke" by Humming Bird
Ending Theme:
"Kanaete (Wishing...)" by Akino Arai
Official website:
TMS Entertainment (Japanese)
TMS' Sakon the Ventriloquist page
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Hitoyuki Matsui

Screenplay: Yuuichi Higurashi (eps 4, 6)

Music:
Norihiro Tsuru
Yuriko Nakamura

Original Manga:
Sharaku Marou
Takeshi Obata

Character Design: Toshimitsu Kobayashi

Theme Song Performance:
Akino Arai (ED)
Hanamichi Itsuki ("Koe")
HUMMING BIRD (OP)
Kokia ("Sayonara wa Iwanai de")
Yoshiki Fukuyama (OP - Humming Bird lead vocal)

 

Megumi Ogata as Sakon Tachibana

Motoko Kumai as Ukon

Ryotaro Okiayu as Fujita Zenkichi

Aya Hisakawa as Hoshie Nishimura (eps 21-23)

Hiroshi Yanaka as Eda Jun

Kazuya Ichijou as Tsutomu Saeki

Kazuya Nakai as Kouji Kitamura

Mitsuki Yayoi as Maya Nishihara

Takehito Koyasu as Shinozaki Takumi

Toshiharu Sakurai as Kenichi Saitou

Toshihiko Seki as Numata Mitsuru (eps 21-23)

Yousuke Inaba as singing voice

Yumi Touma as Hazuki Funabashi

Yurika Hino as Yoko Oka

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster:
Animax
WOWOW

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Production: Tokyo Movie Shinsha

French staff 
(none)
French companies 

Distributor: Taifu video

French cast 
(none)
 
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