Taro the Dragon Boy

  • Rated 6.5 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1979
  • 1h 15m
  • Fantasy
  • Animation
  • Family

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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Director
Kirio Urayama
Starring
Junya Kato, Mina Tominaga, Kirio Urayama, Junko Kuroda

Cast

  • Junya Kato

    Taro (voice)

  • Mina Tominaga

    Mina Tominaga

    Aya (voice)

  • Kirio Urayama

    Kirio Urayama

    Tengu (voice)

  • Junko Kuroda

    Narrator (voice)

  • Kazuo Kitamura

    Kazuo Kitamura

    Black Oni (voice)

  • Kazuo Kumakura

    Kazuo Kumakura

    Red Oni (voice)

  • Kirin Kiki

    Kirin Kiki

    Yamanba (voice)

  • Sayuri Yoshinaga

    Sayuri Yoshinaga

    Tatsuya (voice)

  • Toshiko Yabuki

    Tarō's Grandmother (voice)

  • Tsuneo Sanada

    Hakuja (voice)

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