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Film · Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy

Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)

★ 6.5 · 22 votesIMDb★ 7.5 · 1,004 votes1 h 15 minAnimation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy1979

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.

Director
Kirio Urayama
Writers
Kirio Urayama, Miyoko Matsutani, Takashi Mitsui
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Release date
March 17, 1979
Original title
龍の子太郎

Taro the Dragon Boy cast

  • Junya KatoTaro (voice)
  • Mina TominagaAya (voice)
  • Kirio UrayamaTengu (voice)
  • Junko KurodaNarrator (voice)
  • Kazuo KitamuraBlack Oni (voice)
  • Kazuo KumakuraRed Oni (voice)
  • Kirin KikiYamanba (voice)
  • Sayuri YoshinagaTatsuya (voice)
  • Toshiko YabukiTarō's Grandmother (voice)
  • Tsuneo SanadaHakuja (voice)
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