Taro the Dragon Boy

Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)

龍の子太郎

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.

Date of release
1979-03-17
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure
Director
Kirio Urayama

Casting

Interesting facts

Taro the Dragon Boy is a 1979 film adaptation of a famous Japanese folk tale, and the novel Taro, the Dragon Boy by Miyoko Matsutani. In 1966, Taro, the Son of Dragon with the original Japanese title of "Tatsu, no ko Taro", started as a puppet series on a Japanese television channel. In the late 1970s the anime television series Taro the Dragon Boy was shown on Doordarshan.

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