Tezuka Osamu no Kyuuyaku Seisho Monogatari: In the Beginning
In The Beginning: Stories from the Bible • 手塚治虫の旧約聖書物語 In The Beginning
TV · 1997 · 26 eps · Finished · Score 6.3
Genres: Action, Drama
Themes: Religion, Classic Literature, Kingdom Management, Royal Affairs, Gods, Family Life, Historical, Animals, Foreign, Slavery, Mythology, Ships, Desert, Natural Disaster, Episodic
Studios: Tezuka Productions
Synopsis
Through the Italian National Broadcasting Network, Tezuka Osamu received an ardent request from the Vatican to make the Bible into animated form. This request was probably made to see how the Bible would be depicted by the non-Christian Tezuka Osamu. Tezuka Osamu accepted the request and spent an entire two years to complete a pilot film. It was about the story of Noah's ark, with the enthusiastic Tezuka Osamu not only writing the scenario but also drawing pictures by himself. During production, however, he unfortunately passed away, so Director Dezaki took over the film and completed it. (Source: AniDB)
Voice Actors
- Hidekatsu Shibata as Kami
- Mayumi Tanaka as Kitsune
- Kinryuu Arimoto as Adam
- Tatsuyuki Jinnai as Shem
- Yorie Terauchi as Eve
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Abel
- Shou Saitou as Noah Fujin
- Katsuhiro Kitagawa as Cain
- Yuzuru Fujimoto as Noah
- Minoru Inaba as Ham
- Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Japheth
- Akira Kume as Narrator