Tatsu no ko Taro (1979)

Original title

龍の子太郎

Directed by

Kirio Urayama, Peter Fernandez

Genre

anime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy named Taro goes on a journey to find his mother who has turned into a dragon. Along the way he encounters animals and mythical creatures while using his super strength and kind heart to help others.

whimsicaladventurousfolkloricheartfelthopefulfamily-friendlyepisodicmythic

What happens

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 anime television series Taro the Dragon Boy (original story by Miyoko Matsutani) was shown on Doordarshan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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