Anime : Hinotori

	Title	Hinotori
	Japanese Title	火の鳥
	Official Site	http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/hinotori/
	Category	TV
	Total Episodes	13
	Genres	Drama
	Year Published	2004
	Release Date	2004-03-21 ∼ 2004-05-04
	Broadcaster	-
	Studio	Tezuka Production
	US Distribution	PBS
	User Rating	8.0/10.0 (5 reviews) (Statistic)
	Updated	Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:03 -0400

Description

"Hinotori" is our long time favorite of Tezuka Osamus’ works, which depicts two main themes we should consider. One of them is about the life, such as "history", "religion", "love", "lifetime" and "the way we live", and they have been the main problems for a long time. Another one is quite new one, such as "environment", "gene manipulation", "clone technologies" and "relationship between human and robots". These problems are that we are confronting just now.

In spited that Tezuka began to draw Hinotori 50 years ago, it has been always
asking us, who are living in 21st century, what human is and what to live is.

Crew, Cast, and Characters

Role	Person
Character Designer	Nishida Masayoshi (西田正義), Oshita Kyuma (大下久馬), Sugino Akio (杉野昭夫), Uchida Hiroshi (内田裕)
Director	Takahashi Ryosuke (高橋良輔)
Editing	Morita Shinji (森田清次), Yama Yuka
Producer	Tezuka Osamu (手塚治虫)
Script	Gobu Fuyunori (五武冬史), Hasegawa Keiichi (長谷川圭一), Kobayashi Hirotoshi (小林弘利), Nozaki Toru (野崎透), Sugii Gisaburo (杉井ギサブロー)
Sound	Uchiike Hidekazu (内池　秀和)