She's a thief. A killer. A saint and a scandal. She's whatever you need her to be to get the job done. She takes your breath away to get what she wants. She takes everything else just because she can. It's all in a night's work for the woman called Fujiko Mine. She's the slinky, sultry thread that holds Lupin III's crew together—and this is the heist that started it all.
A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature.
The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years.
The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).
The story follows the amnesiac detective Jian Buzhi who starts on a quest to finding the truth and unmasking his father's killer. Along the way, he finds a love interest and a good friend who work hand in hand with him to solve mysterious cases.
Teacher Zhao Xingrou falls for warlord Yi Qiuting, but family differences and his domineering ways tear them apart. Believing her child is lost, she fakes her death and disappears. Years later, she returns, determined to prove that women can shape their own destiny with strength and independence.
Empty nest divorcée Eve Fletcher reinvents her life to find the happiness and sexual fulfillment that’s eluded her, and her college freshman son Brendan.
"The world average age for the first sexual experience... 17.3". Is that early? Late? Seno Sakura has a serious personality. Hara Tsumugi has never liked a member of the opposite sex before. Minagawa Yuna is experienced and is currently dating a company employee. At the age of 17, the girl's "sexual values" begin to fluctuate.
Ray is an enigmatic adventurer with no traceable past who travels from place to place fighting crime and helping people in trouble. He refuses to be paid for his services; however, those seeking his assistance must promise him a favor.
Set far in the future, a mysterious alien race attacks a new colony light years from Earth. A number of children ranging in ages from 4 to 15 are among the survivors that evacuate from the fallen colony. Due to attacks by the aliens on the escaping freighter, the number of adults left dwindles.
Over time, the children become involved as they strive to understand the aliens and try to make their way back to Earth.
Xie Xiaoman, an ordinary yet determined woman, is forced into a contract marriage with Zhao Xiaoqian, a prince known for his laziness, and as palace intrigue and shared trials unfold, the two grow beyond their reputations to discover love, courage, and their true destinies together.
After the sudden demise of their beloved father, Halil and Ibrahim, two estranged siblings, find themselves thrown together on an unexpected journey to fulfill their father's final wishes. Little do they know that this journey will not only reveal hidden aspects of their father's past but also unravel long-held secrets about their own identities. "Echoes of Heritage" is a poignant tale of self-discovery, family bonds, and the enduring power of love.
Yoon Soo-wan and Park Dong-joo were each other's first loves, but were forced to separate due to painful family circumstances. Soo-wan, who had been blind, eventually undergoes an eye transplant surgery that restores her sight.
The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively.
Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance.
However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...
A successful lecturer facing single motherhood devises a fake romance with a marriage-averse doctor — but keeping up the act proves harder than it seems.
This is an extraordinary tale of how an ordinary scholar becomes a prince of a different surname (from the imperial family). With his wife, he lives in poverty, and to repay his wife's unswerving loyalty to him, he goes to the capital to take the Imperial Examination. By chance, he helps solve a court case and is then tied into the national affairs of the country.
Hello! Sandybell is an anime series made by Toei Animation in 1981. It was aired in Japan by TV Asahi.
In the original title when it is made in Japan, her name is the spelling to which "E" is attached to an end by "Sandybelle".
Similarly to Silver Fang, the show is relatively unknown in the U.S. but was quite popular in Asia, Latin America, Arab countries and Europe, particularly Scandinavia.