Fist of the North Star (TV)
Alternative title:
El Puño de la Estrella del Norte (Spanish)
Hokuto no Ken (Japanese)
Ken il guerriero (Italian)
Ken le survivant (French)
Ken, the Great Bear Fist
Ken: Rättvisans Kämpe (Swedish)
Seikimatsu Kyuseishu Densetsu - Hokuto no Ken (Japanese)
سيف النار (Arabic)
北斗の拳 (Japanese)
북두의 권 (Korean)
Themes:
martial arts
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
In a post-nuclear future, human race has made many steps. Normal people have become slaves, while genetically modified giants rule the world. Gunpowder is a distant memory and martial arts is the only weapon a man can count on. Two schools face each other in the battle for dominion: Hokuto and Nanto. Kenshiro is the rightful successor of Hokuto school, while Shin is Nanto's. Shin stole Ken's girlfriend Julia and Ken is looking for her. Kenshiro travels the barren wasterland of post-apocalyptic Earth as seeks to rescue Julia. As the series progresses, we are introduced to the six Grand Masters of the Nanto Seiken school, as well as Kenshiro's three adoptive brothers, also trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken. Eventually, Kenshiro's ultimate rival becomes none other than his eldest brother, Raoh, a would-be conqueror who does not recognize Kenshiro as a worthy succcessor.
User Ratings:
609 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
109
Episode titles: We have 109
Vintage:
1984-10-11 to 1987-03-05
2008 (Middle East - Spacepower Broadcast)
Release dates: We have 25
Opening Theme:
#01: "Ai wo Torimodose" by Crystal King (eps 1-82)
#02: "Silent Survivor" by Kodomo Band (eps 83-109)
Ending Theme:
#01: "Yuria...Forever" by Crystal King (eps 1-82)
#02: "Dry Your Tears" by Kodomo Band (eps 83-109)
Insert song:
"Ai wa Kokoro" (愛は魂) by Yuriko Yamamoto (ep 107)
"Kareta Daichi" (枯れた大地) by Akira Kamiya (ep 100)
Official website:
Toei Animation's Hokuto no Ken Homepage (Japanese)
Links: We have 5
Trivia: We have 4
Comment:
To comply with TV censorship laws, character deaths (mainly by Kenshiro) are visually obscured. Blood splatters are replaced with glowing white splashes while body explosions are depicted in shadow form.
Review:
Fist of the North Star TV VHS 1 (Jan 1, 1970)
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Series Director: Toyoo Ashida
Script:
Hiroshi Toda (70 episodes eps 4-8, 11-13, 16-30, 33-34, 36-37, 40-42, 48-49, 52-60, 64, 67-70, 73, 75-78, 83-85, 88-93, 96-99, 102-104, 106-108 )Katsushi Deguchi (ep 60) Shōzō Uehara (eps 1-2, 9-10) Tokio Tsuchiya (6 episodes eps 31-32, 45-46, 62-63 )Toshiki Inoue (eps 3, 14) Yūho Hanazono (4 episodes eps 15, 18, 20, 27 )Yukiyoshi Ōhashi (25 episodes eps 35, 39, 43-44, 47, 50-51, 61, 65-66, 71-72, 74, 79-82, 86-87, 94-95, 100-101, 105, 109 )
Screenplay: Toyoo Ashida
Storyboard:
Iku Ishiguro (ep 11) Kazuhiro Ochi (eps 59, 71) Kazuhisa Takenouchi (ep 25) Masahisa Ishida (ep 19) Shigenori Kageyama (ep 5) Takeshi Shirato (ep 18)
Episode Director:
Atsutoshi Umezawa (27 episodes eps 4, 6-7, 12, 16, 22-23, 25-26, 30, 32, 36, 38, 41, 44, 48, 51, 77, 82, 85-86, 90, 94, 98, 101, 104, 108 )Hiromichi Matano (27 episodes eps 18, 27, 31, 35, 43, 45, 50, 53-59 odd, 60, 63, 66, 69, 71, 73, 76, 79, 84, 86, 88, 92, 96, 99, 102, 106 )Ichirō Itano (eps 39, 49) Iku Ishiguro (eps 2, 8) Masahisa Ishida (ep 5) Masamitsu Sasaki (ep 3) Shigenori Kageyama (4 episodes eps 28, 34, 40, 46 )Tomoharu Katsumata (eps 54, 56, 62) Toyoo Ashida (eps 1, 23)
Music: Nozomi Aoki
Character Design: Masami Suda
Art: Chisato Sunagawa (28 episodes
eps 4, 8, 11, 15, 20, 24, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 67, 71, 75, 78-83, 87, 91, 95, 99, 103, 108 )
Animation Director:
Hironobu Saitō (11 episodes eps 16, 29, 41, 54, 67, 80-81, 83, 92, 106, 109 )Hirotoshi Kaneko (ep 9) Ichirō Itano (eps 39, 49) Katsumi Aoshima (7 episodes eps 23, 25, 30, 36, 42, 48, 57 )Kazuhiro Ochi (eps 59, 71, 90) Masami Suda (15 episodes eps 1, 7, 13, 17, 22, 26, 32, 38, 44, 51, 76, 86, 94, 101, 108 )Takuya Wada (eps 34, 46, and more)
Art design: Mitsuki Nakamura
Sound Director: Kanji Fukunaga
Editing: Masaaki Hanai
In-Between Animation:
Atsuko Ishida (ep 34) Junichi Hayama (5 episodes eps 1, 32, 42, 49, 98 )Makoto Kanai (ep 96) Ryō Tanaka (eps 35, 54, 57)
Insert Song Lyrics: Yoshiko Miura
Key Animation:
Akira Shimizu (eps 4, 11) Atsushi Satō (ep 2) Hajime Kamegaki (ep 59) Hideaki Furusawa (eps 8, 14) Hidehiko Okano (11 episodes eps 45, 52, 58, 64, 70, 77, 87, 93, 99, 107, 109 )Hideki Tamura (ep 28) Hiromi Naganawa (7 episodes eps 64, 70, 87, 93, 99, 107, 109 )Hirotoshi Kaneko (13 episodes eps 3, 16, 23, 29, 54, 67, 78-81, 83, 92, 106 )Hirotoshi Saito (eps 5, 9) Junichi Hayama (3 episodes eps 71, 102, 108 )Junzō Ono (5 episodes eps 10, 15, 21, 27, 33 )Katsumi Aoshima (10 episodes eps 1, 7, 13, 17, 22, 25, 30, 36, 48, 57 )Kazuhiro Ochi (eps 59, 90) Kinji Yoshimoto (uncredited) Kiyoshi Matsumoto (eps 2, 14) Kiyotoshi Aoi (12 episodes eps 18, 25, 30, 36, 42, 48, 55, 62, 75, 85, 91, 98 )Kōji Morimoto Masahiro Shida (ep 56) Masaki Kudō (ep 20) Masami Ōbari (Uncredited; ep 59) Masami Suda (15 episodes eps 1, 7, 13, 17, 22, 26, 32, 38, 44, 51, 76, 86, 94, 101, 108 )Masayuki (ep 56) Michitaka Kikuchi (ep 97) Michiyo Sakurai (ep 56) Minoru Tanaka (4 episodes eps 72, 84, 89, 95 )Mitsumasa Kimura (ep 97) Moriyasu Taniguchi (eps 12, 19) Naohito Takahashi (ep 56) Naoko Ozawa (eps 98, 102) Naoto Ochiai (ep 104) Nobumichi Kawamura (7 episodes eps 6, 15, 33, 39, 45, 52, 58 )Nobuteru Yuki (ep 49 and more) Nobuyuki Fukuchi (eps 8, 12, 19) Osamu Ishikawa (7 episodes eps 53, 66, 69, 84, 89, 95, 100 )Osamu Yamazaki (ep 5) Sachiko Tada (eps 44, 51) Shizuo Kawai (6 episodes eps 18, 24, 31, 37, 43, 50 )Tadashi Shida (ep 56) Takuya Wada (5 episodes eps 34, 40 and more, 46, 85, 91 )Tomoyasu Makinoda (ep 20) Yasuhide Maruyama (eps 4, 11) Yasuyuki Tada (eps 6, 10) Yukie Nasu (ep 59)
Music Selection: Hideyuki Tanaka
Painter: Keiko Nemoto
Production manager: Yoshitomo Yonetani (22 episodes
eps 4, 11, 18, 24, 27, 31, 35, 37, 41, 43, 47-55 odd, 58-59, 62, 64, 67, 69, 71 )
Sound Effects: Michihiro Itō (E&M)
Theme Song Arrangement:
Hiromi Imakiire (ED1) Hiromoto Tobisawa (OP 1, ED 1) Michio Yamashita (OP1) Tsuyoshi Ujiki (OP2, ED2)
Theme Song Composition:
Hiromi Imakiire (ED1) Michio Yamashita (OP1) Seiji Katsu (ED2; as KATZ) Tsuyoshi Ujiki (OP2,ED2; as JICK)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Hidetoshi Nomoto (野元英俊; ED1) Kimiharu Nakamura (OP1) Masayuki Tanaka (ED1) Tsuyoshi Ujiki (OP2, ED2) |
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Backgrounds: Studio Jack
Broadcaster: Fuji Television Network
Development: Toei Chemical Industry
In-Between Animation: Kaname Production
Internet Streaming: Videx
Key Animation:
Anime R (uncredited; eps 12, 19) Kaname Production (4 episodes eps 28, 34, 40, 46 )Studio G7 (ep 74)
Music Production: Pony Canyon
Production Cooperation: Kaname Production
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Script: William Winckler (WW dub)
ADR Script: Andrew Ebert
Executive producer:
J.F. Oya (Rioloco Productions; WW dub) Kōzō Morishita (Toei Animation; WW dub) Laurence Guinness Selby Johnson (Discotek) William Winckler (WW dub)
Producer:
Haruyo Kanesaku Justin Sevakis (Discotek SD Blu-ray) Margo Coughlin Marvin Gleicher Michael Gonzales (WW dub) Mike Egan Yutaka Maseba
Blu-Ray Authoring: Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
Blu-Ray Compression: Justin Sevakis (Discotek)
Coordination: Chris Bottone
Dialogue Director: William Winckler (WW dub)
Digital Tracking: 'Big Phil' Brewster
Legal: Patricia Pfister
Menu Design: Gary Swarer (Discotek SD Blu-ray)
OP Theme: Mike Egan
Subtitle Manager: Anthon Meyer (Discotek SD Blu-ray)
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Broadcaster:
Encore Action Nippon Golden Network (Broadcast w\ JP dialogue\Eng. subtitles, circa late 80s) Showtime Beyond
ED Theme: Reinforced Records
Editing Facility: Concept Plus
Internet Streaming:
Anime News Network Crackle (North America; Expired) Crunchyroll FUNimation Entertainment Hulu Joost
Music: Reinforced Records
Production: Toei Animation (2009 William Winckler Productions dub)
Recording Studio: Magnitude 8 Post
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ADR Director: Philippe Ogouz (eps 1-91)
Dubbing Director: Maurice Latino (eps 92-109)
Adaptation:
Anne Estève (eps 92-109) Aurélie Gélibert (eps 92-109) Benoît Berthezène (eps 92-109) Guillaume Estève (eps 92-109) Isabelle Jannès-Kalinowski (eps 92-109) Jean-Yves Jaudeau Lucie Romero (eps 92-109) Mathias Delobel (eps 92-109)
Script Supervision: Anne Estève (eps 92-109)
Theme Song Performance: Bernard Denimal
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ADR Production: SOFI
Broadcaster:
AB 1 AB Cartoons (from 2 April 1996) Club RTL (from 2002) Mangas NT1 (from 2005) Sci-Fi (from January 2006) TF1 (from August 1988) TMC (from 2000)
Dubbing: Soundfactor (eps 92-109)
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Dubbing Director: Bruno Cattaneo |
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Broadcaster:
Euro TV (from 1986) Europa 7 Italia 7 Italia 7 Gold Italia Teen Television (from 6 September 2004) Junior TV La 7 (2002) Man-Ga Rete37 Super 3 SuperSix Teledue (from 2002) Telenorba 8 TVR Voxson
Distributor:
DeAgostini (DVD) Granata Press (VHS) Hobby & Work (VHS) Mondo Home Entertainment (VHS) Yamato Video (DVD) |
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Credits: Muhammad Al-Qazzah
Mixage: Manar Al-Samkari
Montage: Samer Abu Hamad
Production manager: Radwan Hijazi
Proofreading: Ramadan Ayyub
Script Adaptation: Muhammad Mahmoud Qunbus
Singing: Shadi Al-Ali
Theme Song Composition: Simone Abu Asali
Theme Song Lyrics: Shafiq Bitar
Voice Direction: Yahya Al-Kafri
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