Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)
1h 15m
Running Time
March 17, 1979Release Date
Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)
1h 15m
Running Time
March 17, 1979Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.
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Cast & Crew.
Junya Kato
Taro (voice)
Mina Tominaga
Aya (voice)
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Tatsuya (voice)
Kirin Kiki
Yamanba (voice)
Kazuo Kumakura
Red Oni (voice)
Kazuo Kitamura
(voice)
Toshiko Yabuki
(voice)
Junko Kuroda
(voice)
Toshifumi Wakuda
Production Assistant
Billie Lou Watt
Taro
Yoichi Takanashi
Camera Operator
Nobuhiro Yamada
Camera Operator
Kirio Urayama
Director / Writer
Peter Fernandez
Director
Toshitsugu Saida
Key Animation
Shigeo Matoba
Key Animation
Takashi Abe
Key Animation
Simon Nuchtern
Producer
Akihiro Ogawa
Key Animation
Iku Ishiguro
Key Animation
Noboru Takano
Key Animation
Shingo Araki
Key Animation
Yutaka Chikura
Editor
Zen Hirota
Key Animation
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 17, 1979
Original Name龍の子太郎
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 15m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
mythology
witch
based on novel or book
dragon
demon
oni
plant rice
الولد التنين
Wiki.
Taro the Dragon Boy (龍の子太郎, Tatsu no ko Tarō) is a 1979 film adaptation of a famous Japanese folk tale, and the novel Taro, the Dragon Boy by Miyoko Matsutani. In 1966, Taro, the Son of Dragon with the original Japanese title of "Tatsu, no ko Taro", started as a puppet series on a Japanese television channel. In the late 1970s the anime television series Taro the Dragon Boy (original story by Miyoko Matsutani) was shown on Doordarshan.
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