Folktales from Japan - Hometown Rebuilding (2012) (season)

The Woodcutter and the Monster Crab / The Monster Tamer / Rolling Rice Balls (S01E137)

Name: Folktales from Japan - The Woodcutter and the Monster Crab / The Monster Tamer / Rolling Rice Balls
Released: 2014
Cast: Akira Emoto, Yoneko Matsukane

(episode)

Kikori to Bakegani / Bakemonozukai / Omusubi Kororin (more)
木こりと化け蟹 / 化け物使い / おむすびころりん (less)

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Animation / Comedy / Family

Japan, 2014, 24 min

Directed by:

Hiroshi Fukutomi, Susumu Shiraume, Takuo Suzuki

Screenplay:

Masumi Hirayanagi, Satoshi Namiki

Cast:

Akira Emoto (narrator), Yoneko Matsukane (narrator)

(more professions)

VOD (1)

Crunchyroll

Plots(1)

A talented woodcutter enters a forbidden forest and is assaulted by a monster crab. An old man is famous for being rough on his servants. Since nobody wants to work for him, he hires monsters. An old man gives a rat a rice ball, and as thanks is taken to a magical world. (Crunchyroll)