Taro the Dragon Boy poster

Taro the Dragon Boy poster

Taro the Dragon Boy

1979 1h 15m 6.5Movie

FantasyAnimationFamilyAdventure

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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Kirio Urayama

Director, Writer

Miyoko Matsutani

Novel

Takashi Mitsui

Screenplay

Top 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)