Title: General Inakappe (Inakappe Taisho)

Type: Television Series

Airdates: October 4, 1970 - September 24, 1972

Series Run: 208 episodes (two episodes per half hour)

Episode Length: 15 minutes

Network: Fuji Television

Air time: 6:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M., Sundays

Brought to U.S.: No

Information: A lively boy named Daizaemon in traditional Japanese clothing comes with various kinds of animals to the capital of Tokyo. He has a funny habit of dancing whenever he hears music. He visits a friend of his late father's to learn judo and makes friends with the young daughter of the judo master Kikuko and the cat Nyanko. For a little girl, Kikuko has wonderful judo tricks inherited from her father while Nyanko is able to perform a difficult trick of triple turn in the air. Both of them are worthy instructors for Daizaemon. Although he shows clownish behavior once in a while, he is always popular among people around and grows stout and shrewd to be a future champion.


Creator: Noboru Kawasaki

Planning Writers: Jinzo Toriumi, Toshito Hiraya, Akiyoshi Sakai

Chief Writer: Toshito Hiraya

Chief Director: Hiroshi Sasagawa

Producer: Tatsuo Yoshida

Music: Katsuhiko Nakamura

Daizaemon Kaze: Masako Nozawa

Kikuko Ogaki: Mari Okamoto

Teacher Nyanko: Kinya Aikawa

Teacher Shirayuki: Haruko Kitahama