Taro the Dragon Boy

Mar 17, 1979

1h 15m

★ 6.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Fantasy

Animation

Family

Adventure

Production Companies

Toei Video Company

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Cast

Taro (voice)

Junya Kato

Aya (voice)

Mina Tominaga

Tatsuya (voice)

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Yamanba (voice)

Kirin Kiki

Red Oni (voice)

Kazuo Kumakura

(voice)

Kazuo Kitamura

(voice)

Toshiko Yabuki

(voice)

Junko Kuroda

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