Gallery Fake


Gallery Fake is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono, which was adapted into an anime television series. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award.

Plot

On a wharf on Tokyo Bay is a small gallery named Gallery Fake. The owner of the gallery, Reiji Fujita, was once a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was a learned curator with remarkable memory, keen aesthetic sense, great skill in restoration of paintings and knowledge of many languages, so he was called the "Professor". However, because of trouble in the workplace, Fujita was forced to quit the museum. Now he is an art dealer who sells paintings, authentic and fake alike, sometimes at extraordinary prices, depending on the circumstances or the type of buyer. His motto is "One without aesthetic sense can't help being cheated out of his money. And by being deceived, one may learn to distinguish real ones from the counterfeit."
However, Fujita has a strong sense of justice. He truly appreciates art and the artists who spent their lives to create it and does not try to deceive people by passing off fake paintings as genuine ones. He will go out of his way to help people in trouble, but also bring justice to politicians, businessmen or art dealers who are dishonest. He often touches the lives of those he encounters and people are attracted to him in spite of his sometimes gruff manner.

Characters

Reiji Fujita
Sara Halifa
Sayoko Mitamura
Fei Cui
Menou
Carlos
Ramos
Max Watson

Episode list