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Taro the Dragon Boy (movie)

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Alternative title:
Taro der Drachenjunge (German)
Taro der kleine Drachenjunge (German)
Taro el Niño Dragon (Spanish)
Taro the Dragon's Son
Tatsu no Ko Tarou (Japanese)
الولد التنين (Arabic)
龍の子太郎 (Japanese)
Genres: fantasy
Themes: historical
Plot Summary: Lazy and selfish Taro loves to eat and sleep and wrestle with the animals. With no direction in his life, a wizard appears that gives him a special potion. With this potion, he gains the strength of a hundred men - but he can only use it when he is helping others.
User Ratings: 23 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Very good: 7 votes (sub:3, dub:3, Spa.dub:1)
 Good: 3 votes (Ara.dub:1, dub:1, sub:1)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)
 So-so: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 62 users, rank: #2711
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.826 (Good-.17), std. dev.: 1.7106, rank: #2004
Weighted mean: 6.834 (Good-.16), rank: #1877 (seen all: 6.83)
Bayesian estimate: 7.038 (Good+.03), rank: #1296
Running time: 75 minutes
Vintage: 1979-03-17
Premiere date:
1979-03-17 (Japan)
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Related releases:
    Taro the Dragon Boy (DVD) 2006-01-31 (from $10.73)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kirio Urayama

Screenplay:
Kirio Urayama
Takashi Mitsui

Music: Riichiro Manabe

Original Concept: Isao Takahata

Original story: Miyoko Matsutani

Character Design:
Reiko Okuyama
Youichi Otabe

Art director: Isamu Tsuchida

Animation director: Osamu Kasai

Art design:
Reiko Okuyama
Youichi Otabe

Executive producer: Chiaki Imada

Producer: Chiaki Imada

Animation:
Fumiko Miyoshi
Hiromi Satou
Hisashi Yamazaki
Junko Ikeda
Kazumi Shimada
Kazuya Uenashi
Keiko Kanayama
Keiko Matsumura
Mario Ishiyama
Masumi Ishiguro
Midori Iwai
Miyo Yamada
Momoko Ueno
Osamu Kasai
Ryoko Kato
Satoshi Maruyama
Shinji Ohstuka
Shinosuke Kusakado
Sumiko Naganuma
Taeko Ohstuka
Takao Sakano
Takemori Mihara
Teruo Hattori
Tomoe Morimoto
Toshiaki Kobayashi
Yomi Murakami
Yoshie Komatsu
Yoshinobu Usuda
Yoshitaka Yashima
Youichi Otabe
Yuji Endo
Yuko Nakajima

Art Sequence: Fumio Akutsu

Assistant director: Yuji Endo

Background Art:
Kazuo Ebisawa
Kenji Matsumoto
Motoyuki Tanaka

Calligraphy: Tadao Hoshino

Cinematography:
Masahiro Yamada
Yoichi Takanashi

Color:
Junko Furuya
Keiko Abe
Masako Yamauchi
Mitsuko Goto

Design:
Reiko Okuyama
Youichi Otabe

Editing: Yutaka Chikura

Film Development: Toei Kagaku

Original Art:
Akihiro Ogawa
Hirokazu Tsunoda
Iku Ishiguro
Kin Hirota
Michihiro Kanayama
Noboru Takano
Shigeo Matoba
Shingo Araki
Shunji Saida
Takashi Abe
Tatsuji Kino

Planning:
Ken Ariga
Takeshi Ariga
Yasuo Yamaguchi

Post Production Sequence: Yoshihiro Fujimoto

Post Production Supervisor:
Kazuo Kinugasa
Masatoyo Ogura

Production manager:
Matsuji Kishimoto
Osamu Yoshioka

Production Reporter: Etsuko Date

Production Sequence: Toshifumi Wakuda

Recording: Isao Hatano

Sound Effects: Michihiro Ito

Special Effects:
Chiaki Hirao
Yoshiaki Okada

Theme Song Composition: Riichiro Manabe

Theme Song Lyrics:
Ichiro Wakabayashi
Kirio Urayama

Theme Song Performance:
Ichiro Mizuki
Junya Kato
Nissho

Trace:
Kazuko Kurosawa
Kimiyo Okunishi
Reiko Igarashi
Sonoe Sakano

Zerograph:
Kinzaburo Muramatsu
Tomoko Totsuka

 

Junya Kato as Taro

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Tatsuya

Douan Suimeitei as Tengu

Kazuo Kitamura as Black Oni

Kazuo Kumakura as Red Oni

Kirin Kiki as Yamanba

Miina Tominaga as Aya

Isamu Matsuzawa as Long-nosed Goblin

Junko Kuroda as Narrator

Kazuo Kitamura as Niwatori-chouja

Ryuko Koyama as Long-nosed Goblin

Toshiko Yabuki as Taro's Grandmother

Tsuneo Sanada as Hakuja

Yoko Kawano as Long-nosed Goblin

Yusuke Mori as Long-nosed Goblin

Japanese companies 

Cooperation: Toei Acting Training Center

Film Developing: Toei Chemical Industry

Music: Columbia Records

Production: Toei Animation

Recording Studio: Tapack

Released by: Toei Video Co., Ltd

English cast 
English staff 

Executive producer: Sidney Pike

Producer:
John Watkins
Simon Nuchtern

Billie Lou Watt as Taro

English companies 

Distributor: Discotek

Licensed by: Discotek

Released by: Columbia Home Pictures

Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Theatrical Release: ICAIC (Cuba)

Spanish cast 
(none)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Heidemarie Gohde as Aya

Rosemarie Deibel as Tatsuya

Roswitha Marks as Taro

German companies 

Distributor: Silwa Video

Dubbing: DEFA

 
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