Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)
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.
- Released
- 1979-03-17
- Genres
- Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kirio Urayama, Takashi Mitsui
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 22 votes
Cast
- Junya Kato as Taro (voice)
- Mina Tominaga as Aya (voice)
- Kirio Urayama as Tengu (voice)
- Junko Kuroda as Narrator (voice)
- Kazuo Kitamura as Black Oni (voice)
- Kazuo Kumakura as Red Oni (voice)
- Kirin Kiki as Yamanba (voice)
- Sayuri Yoshinaga as Tatsuya (voice)
- Toshiko Yabuki as Tarō's Grandmother (voice)
- Tsuneo Sanada as Hakuja (voice)
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