Glass Mask: The Girl of a Thousand Masks (1998) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 16, 1998

Original Title:
ガラスの仮面~千の仮面を持つ少女~

Alternate Titles:
Glass Mask OVA
Glass no Kamen: Sen no Kamen o Motsu Shoujo

Genres:
Animation | Drama

Production Companies:
Kyokuichi-Tokyo Movie

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 145

Kitajima Maya is a young girl from a poor background with no talents of use to school or her widowed mother. However, she is obsessed with movies, theatrical plays and TV dramas-to the point of remembering every line from a movie she's seen once, and dramatically acting out the stories, including every character, for anyone who will listen. One day, she encounters an old woman with a scarred face who claims that Maya is the girl she's been looking for-for the old woman has spent years protecting the rights to a 'legendary' play. (Remake of the first few chapters of the manga for the first tv series that aired in 1984)

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Animation Director:
Satoshi Hirayama

Character Designer:
Satoshi Hirayama
Masako Goto

Director:
Tsuneo Kobayashi

Storyboard Artist:
Tsuneo Kobayashi

Writer:
Suzue Miuchi

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