Smart-san
Smart-san
An Animation and Drama series first aired in 1978, Smart-san has 1 season with 42 episodes and comes from Japan. Episodes run about 24m. Soap2Day lists it with Kazuyoshi Yokota directing and Ichiro Nagai and Reiko Suzuki in the cast. It holds 7.8/10 from 4 votes. Benio Hanamura is a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Tokyo during the Taisho era. Benio lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy—contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions, and isn't as interested in housewife duties as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love. Benio's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Benio but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms.
- Genre: Animation, Drama, Comedy
- Country: Japan
- Director: Waki Yamato
- Cast: Ichiro Nagai, Reiko Suzuki, Atsuko Mine, Katsuji Mori, Kohei Miyauchi, Reiko Yamada, Rihoko Yoshida, Kazuko Sugiyama, Hiroshi Masuoka, Ichiro Nagai, Keiko Yokozawa, Kaneta Kimotsuki
