Kimba the White Lion (TV)
Related anime:
Jungle Emperor Leo (movie 1966) (1966-07-31, alternate retelling)
Jungle Taitei Susume Leo (TV) (1966-10-05 to 1967-03-29, sequel)
(The) New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (TV 1989) (remake)
Jungle Emperor Leo (special) (remake)
Alternative title:
Jungle Emperor Leo
Jungle Taitei (Japanese)
Kimba el León Blanco (Spanish)
Kimba il Leone Bianco (Italian)
Kimba, o leão branco (Portuguese)
Kimba- Der Weisse Löwe (German)
La leyenda de Kimba , el Leon Blanco (Spanish)
Le retour de Léo (French)
Una giungla di avventure per Kimba (Italian)
ジャングル大帝 (Japanese)
Age rating:
All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary:
The series follows the adventures Leo (renamed Kimba in the English release), a young lion cub. Leo becomes king of the jungle when his father, the previous king of the jungle is killed by a human hunter.
User Ratings:
113 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
half hour per episode
Number of episodes:
52
Episode titles: We have 52
Vintage:
1965-10-06 to 1966-09-28
1965-11-10 (Completion of English Dubbing on First/Pilot Episode)
1975 (México - Canal 5)
1990-09-17 (France)
1994 (USA redub)
Opening Theme:
"Jungle Tantei" by ??
"Jungle Tantei" by Bill Giant
"Junguru Taitei (Jungle Emperor)" by Isao Tomita
Ending Theme:
"Leo no Uta (The Song of Leo)" by Isao Tomita
"Leo no uta" by ??
Official website:
Links: We have 4
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Comment:
Some sources list this as the first color Anime TV series broadcasted in Japan. This depends on whether Dolphin Prince was broadcast or not.
Based on the Manga by Tezuka, but created with an American audience in mind (the series was partially funded by NBC). As a result the show was made much more episodic and did not follow Kimba as he grew up (The Manga series follows Kimba until his death as an adult).
Widely accepted as having been plagiarized by Disney with the Lion King. Disney denies that there is any relation between the two.
Jungle Taitei was animated at Mushi simultaneously with Astro Boy.
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Kimba the White Lion Dub.DVD
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| Jungle Emperor Leo (DVD) 2003-10-28 (from $12.99) | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion (DVD 1) 2003-03-25 | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion (DVD 2) 2003-03-25 | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion (DVD 3) 2003-07-15 | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion (DVD 4) 2003-07-15 | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion - DVD Box Set 1 (DVD 1-4) 2003-03-25 | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion - Ultra DVD Box Set (Dub.DVD) 2005-11-29 (from $82.43) | ||||||||
| Kimba the White Lion - Mini Collection 1 (Dub.DVD) 2009-10-06 (from $27.99) | ||||||||
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| Kimba the White Lion - Disaster! (Dub.VHS 10) 2000-09-26 |
Chief Director: Hayashi Shigeyuki Series Director: Eiichi Yamamoto Script: Shun-ichi Yukimuro Music: Isao Tomita Original Manga: Osamu Tezuka Art Director: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto Art: Hiroshi Saitô Hiroya Yatsumura Kanji Akahori Kazusuke Yoshiwara Koji Abe Kozo Masanobu Masayuki Hayashi Norio Hikone Shinji Ito Shozo Sakaguchi Teruhito Ueguchi Toshio Hirata Yukihiko Uchida Animation Director: Chikao Katsui Animal Supervisor: Hideo Obara Animation: Akihiro Kanayama Hiroshi Nishimura Ichiya Uenashi Jiro Saruyama Kiyomi Numamoto Mitsuo Shindo Satoshi Jingu Shingo Araki Takao Ogawa Yoshitaka Rachi Animation producer: Teru Koyama Background Art: Iso Ho Junko Kataoka Ken Ishii Masako Tanaka Morishige Suzuki Noboru Mizutani Shigeru Hirabayashi Shoko Owaki Tsuyoshi Watanabe Wakako Tajima Editing: Masashi Furukawa Idea: Minoru Kume Processing: Tatsumasa Shimizu Production Coordination: Mori Masaki Special Processing: Takanobu Yasuda | Yoshiko Ohta as Asao Koike as Goro Naya as Hajime Akashi as Hisashi Katsuta as Junji Chiba as Kazuo Kumakura as Kazuyuki Sogabe as Keiko Matsuo as Kinto Tamura as Kiyoshi Kawakubo as Mayumi Tanaka as Nobuaki Sekine as Rokuro Naya as Seizo Katou as Tooru Oohira as Yoshiko Yamamoto as You Inoue as | |||||||
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Director: Fred Ladd | Co-Production: NBC Licensed By (Australia): Madman Entertainment (Australia) | |||||||
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Jackie Berger as Lionel Tua as Georges Atlas as Jean-Pierre Leroux as Maurice Sarfati as Nathalie Schmidt as Alain Clavier as Anne Jarry as Flora Balzano as Henri Poirier as Isabelle Jean as Jackie Berger as Maurice Sarfati as Nicole Fontaine as | ||||||||
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| (none) | Broadcaster: Agape TV Canal 8 El Salvador (El Salvador) Boomerang (Latin America) Localia TV (Catalunya) Televisa Canal 5 TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya) TVE (Spain) Distributor: Cloverway, Inc. (Latin America) DVD Distribution: Quality Films (Chile) | |||||||
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Dubbing Director: Marcello Cortese | Giorgio Bonino as Irene Scalzo as Federica Valenti as Antonio Guidi as Diego Sabre as Enrico Bertorelli as Franco Latini as Gino Donato as Liù Bosisio as Mario Zucca as Patrizio Prata as Pino Pirovano as Riccardo Peroni as Riccardo Rovatti as Roberta Gallina Laurenti as | |||||||
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| (none) | Dubbing Studio: BKS (new dub) | |||||||
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