Taro the Dragon Boy
FantasyAnimationFamily
★ 6.5/1019791h 15m
Director: Kirio Urayama
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.
Runtime
1h 15m
Language
Japanese
Released
Mar 17, 1979
Runtime
1h 15m
Language
Japanese
Released
Mar 17, 1979
Cast
Junya Kato
Junya Kato
Taro (voice)
Mina Tominaga
Aya (voice)
Kirio Urayama
Tengu (voice)
Junko Kuroda
Junko Kuroda
Narrator (voice)
Kazuo Kitamura
Black Oni (voice)
Kazuo Kumakura
Red Oni (voice)
Kirin Kiki
Yamanba (voice)
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Tatsuya (voice)
Toshiko Yabuki
Toshiko Yabuki
Tarō's Grandmother (voice)
Tsuneo Sanada
Tsuneo Sanada
Hakuja (voice)
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