This version of Pinocchio tells a story of an extremely gullible, naive and morally confused wooden doll brought to life by a mystical blue fairy. Pinocchio (Mokku) is characterized as having many character faults which he must learn to overcome in order to be worthy of being granted humanity. Some of these character faults include selfishness, rudeness, insensitivity, indolence, obstinacy, over- trusting, self-pity, stupidity, disobedience, compulsive lying, arrogance, greed, cowardice, recklessness, cruelty, foolishness and an inability to learn from mistakes. Throughout the entire series Pinocchio (Mokku), partly due to his own delinquency and repetitive disobedience, must undergo other costly ordeals of hardship and pain in which he is continuously tormented, persecuted, bullied, humiliated, tricked, ridiculed, ostracised, beaten, downtrodden and subjected to degrading and inhumane treatment. Its plain depiction of the austere reality of what it would be like to be literally subhuman growing up in a world of danger and hardship, makes this another good example of traditional Japanese stories, which teach moral observance through tough endurance. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Cast

Hiroko Maruyama

Mokku

Minoru Yada

Grandpa

Masako Ikeda

Fairy

Akira Kamiya

Kaneta Kimotsuki

Cricket

Junpei Takiguchi

Hanaguro

Kohei Miyauchi

Old Tree

Kosei Tomita

Master

Masako Nozawa

Franko

Masako Ikeda

Kenken

Takeshi Watabe

Doro

Kazuya Tatekabe

Red Beard