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3.337 out of 5 from 323 votes. Rank #10,290. Screenshots. Taro is not your usual village boy; a glutton and a sloth, he would rather be out playing with the animals than helping his fellow villagers, including his own grandmother. However, while wrestling with the animals one day a wizard appears and challenges him; and after Taro wins, the ...
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- Junya KATO, Kirin KIKI, Miina TOMINAGA
- Kirio URAYAMA
- March 17, 1979
Taro the Dragon Boy. Taro the Dragon Boy (龍の子太郎, Tatsu no ko Tarō) is a 1979 film adaptation of a famous Japanese folk tale, and the novel Taro, the Dragon Boy by Miyoko Matsutani. [ 2 ] 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.
Taro is a greedy, lazy village boy who sleeps at home while his poor, suffering grandmother works all day. He is uncommonly strong though and teaches forest animals how to wrestle. Suitably impressed, a tengu (Japanese long-nosed goblin) gives Taro the strength of a hundred men, but warns it can only be used to help others.
- Kirio Urayama
- 1979
- Animated, Historical, Fantasy, Adventure
Synopsis. 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. Visit MALxJapan.
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Tatsu no Ko Tarou 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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- Toei Animation
- Junya Kato, Miina Tominaga, Douan Suimeitei
- March 17, 1979
Taro the Dragon Boy (龍の子太郎, 'Tatsu no ko Tarō') is a 1979 film adaptation of a famous Japanese folk tale, and the novel Taro, the Dragon Boy by Miyoko Matsutani.[2] 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 ...
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Taro the Dragon Boy (龍の子太郎, Tatsu no ko Tarō) 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 ...
