Hook Book Row | |
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Genre | Kids Variety show Puppetry Music |
Opening theme | "Aozora Shinkokyū" |
Ending theme | "Omoide Shoten" "Monogatari wa Tszuiteru" "Mashiro Page ni Nani Egakō" "Akogare Azukuruma" "Sora Iro I Love You" "Hyōshi no Mukou wa Wonderland" |
Composers | Keisuke Yamakawa Takayuki Hattori |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
Production | |
Running time | 10 minutes |
Production companies | NHK Enterprises Sony Pictures Television |
Original release | |
Network | NHK Educational NHK World Premium TV Japan (North America) Syndication (United States) |
Release | March 28, 2011 April 1, 2016 | –
Hook Book Row (フックブックロー, Fukku Bukku Rō) is a Japanese children's television program broadcast by NHK Educational TV. It is the 3rd NHK musical puppet variety show overall, the first one being Hotch Potch Station, and the second being Quintet.
The show is centered around the ''Hibi Hanseido''. An old bookstore that resides around the outskirts of Tokyo. However, no one comes to the worn bookstore anymore, and visits are quite rare.
The show includes both puppets and humans and has a range of different genres of music, including original and covers of popular songs.
A shorter 5 minute version of the original 10 minute show.
The show features many original songs, written by Takayuki Hattori and composed by Keisuke Yamakawa.
Along with the original songs, there were also covers of popular Japanese songs.