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Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)
Directed by Kirio Urayama
Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure · 1h 15m
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.
Cast
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Junya Kato
Taro (voice)
Mina Tominaga
Aya (voice)
Kirio Urayama
Tengu (voice)
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Junko Kuroda
Narrator (voice)
Kazuo Kitamura
Black Oni (voice)
Kazuo Kumakura
Red Oni (voice)
Kirin Kiki
Yamanba (voice)
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Tatsuya (voice)
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Toshiko Yabuki
Tarō's Grandmother (voice)
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Tsuneo Sanada
Hakuja (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Kirio Urayama
- Screenplay
- Takashi Mitsui
- Writer
- Kirio Urayama
- Novel
- Miyoko Matsutani
- Original Music Composer
- Riichirō Manabe
- Editor
- Yutaka Senzô
Details
- Original title
- 龍の子太郎
- Release date
- 1979-03-17
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Video Company