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The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (movie)

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Alternative title:
El pequeño príncipe y el dragón de ocho cabezas (Spanish)
El Principito y el dragón de ocho cabezas (Spanish)
Le Petit Prince et le Dragon à Huit Têtes (French)
Little Prince and Eight-Headed Dragon
Prince in Wonderland
Rainbow Bridge
The Wicked Prince's Hunt of the Big Snake
Wanpaku Ōji no Orochi Taiji (Japanese)
わんぱく王子の大蛇退治 (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Themes: gods
Plot Summary: Susanoo is the youngest son of Izanagi and Izanami, a god and a goddess that created Earth so that people could live and try to be happy. Still a young boy, Susanoo is devastated by the passing away of his mother. Determined to find her despite the reprimands of his father, he embarks on a journey to find his brother and his sister since they might know how to get to the place their mom has gone to.
User Ratings: 25 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (sub:1, dub:1, others:1
1 Portuguese dubbed
)
 Excellent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Very good: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)
 So-so: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 37 users, rank: #7139 (of 9763)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.880 (Good), std. dev.: 1.8181, rank: #4452 (of 9909)
Weighted mean: 6.964 (Good), rank: #3971 (of 9909) (seen all: 6.90 / seen some: 8.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.140 (Good), rank: #2823 (of 7492)
Running time: 85 minutes
Vintage: 1963-03-24
Premiere date:
1963-03-24 (Japan)
1964-01-01 (USA)
Opening Theme:
"Haha no Nai Ko no Komori Uta" by Watanabe, Setsuko
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 1
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DVD (Region 1)
    Pop Culture Bento Box (Dub.DVD) 2019-02-05 (from $9.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yūgo Serikawa
Script:
Ichiro Ikeda
Takashi Iijima
Music: Akira Ifukube
Art Director: Reiji Koyama
Animation Director: Yasuji Mori
Director of Photography:
Hideaki Sugawara
Mitsuaki Ishikawa
Executive producer: Hiroshi Ōkawa

Animation Supervisor: Sanae Yamamoto
Assistant Director:
Isao Takahata
Kimio Yabuki
Background Art:
Eiko Sugimoto
Hideo Chiba
Isamu Kageyama
Norio Fukumoto
Color design: Saburo Yokoi
Dance Coaching: Eimi Hatano
Editing: Ikuzo Inaba
Effects: Ryuzo Ishifuji
Historical Research: Koji Fukiya
In-Between Animation:
Akihiro Ogawa
Akinori Matsubara
Akira Masai
Akira Sekiai
Daizō Takeuchi
Eiji Uemura
Eiko Ito
Fumio Akuzu
Fusahiro Nagaki
Haruko Kasai
Hideki Mori
Hiroshi Wagatsuma
Katsuya Oda
Kazuko Kobayashi
Kazumi Sugiyama
Keiichi Kimura
Keiko Shibata
Keisuke Morishita
Ken Saitō
Kenzō Koizumi
Kinnosuke Hirakawa
Kinzaburō Muramatsu
Kiyotaka Asada
Koji Kurahashi
Kyoko Nakatani
Masako Kikuchi
Masako Kubota
Masako Nagao
Michihiro Kanayama
Mikiharu Akabori
Mochitsugu Yoshida
Nobuhiro Okasako
Nobuyuki Fukushima
Norio Hikone
Norio Katta
Reiko Hanada
Sadao Kikuchi
Sadao Tsukioka
Seiichi Hayashi
Shigeo Matoba
Shigeo Ozaki
Shigetsugu Yoshida
Shinnosuke Kusama
Shinya Tamura
Shoji Ikehara
Tadanao Tsuji
Takanori Takahashi
Takao Kanishi
Takao Kodama
Takao Kurosawa
Takao Sakano
Takeshi Abe
Tatsuji Kino
Teruo Hosoda
Tetsuta Ikuno
Tomekichi Takeuchi
Toshiaki Kobayashi
Toshio Arai
Toshio Hirata
Yasuo Fujino
Yōichi Kotabe
Yoshihiro Fujimoto
Yoshiji Horiike
Yoshinobu Usuda
Yoshio Aiso
Yoshio Mukainakano
Yukiyoshi Hane
Ink & Paint:
Fusae Tozuka
Kayoko Yuzawa
Kazue Seki
Mitsuko Shindo
Sadako Kariya
Shigeko Ito
Tomiko Nakamura
Yōko Sakamoto
Key Animation:
Chikao Katsui
Daikichirō Kusube
Hideo Furusawa
Makoto Nagasawa
Masao Kumagawa
Masatake Kita
Reiko Okuyama
Yasuo Ōtsuka
Planning:
Isamu Takahashi
Makoto Yoshida
Takashi Iijima
Recording:
Eiko Kamiyama
Sachio Ishii
Takeshi Mori
Theme Song Lyrics: Takashi Morishima
Vocals: Setsuko Watanabe
Morio Kazama as Susano'o no Mikoto

Chiharu Kuri as Akahana the Rabbit
Hideo Kinoshita as
Tarō the Tiger
Tsukuyomi
Masato Yamanouchi as Wadatsumi
Mitsuko Tomobe as Izanami
Noriko Shindō as Amaterasu Ōmikami
Setsuo Shinoda as Izanagi
Yukiko Okada as Kushinada-Hime

Kinshirō Iwao as Hi-no-Kagatsuchi
Kiyoshi Kawakubo as Taitanbō
Kōji Koga as Rat
Kōsei Yagi as Omoikane
Masato Yamanouchi as Ashinazuchi
Shuichi Kazamatsuri as Minister of War
Japanese companies
Production: Toei Animation
English staff
English companies
ADR Director: William Ross
Translation: Don Brown
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Internet Streaming:
Tubi TV
YouTube
Licensed by: Mill Creek Entertainment
English cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
(none)
Jesús Brock as Susano
María Antonieta de las Nieves as Princesa Kushinada

Carlos Petrel as Izanami, padre de Susano
Esteban Siller as Barbalarga
Jorge Arvizu as Tarô, el tigre
Rosario Muñoz Ledo as Amaterasu, diosa del Sol
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Cartoon Network L.A. (Latin America)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Casting: Jorge Barcellos (new dub)
Marcelo Campos as Coelho (Akahana) (new dubbing)
Olney Cazarré as Coelho (Akahana) (old dub)
Rafael Cortez Júnior as Príncipe Susano (old dub)
Rodrigo Andreatto as Príncipe Susano (new dubbing)

Affonso Amajones as Príncipe Cristal (new dubbing)
Armando Tiraboschi as Izanagi (new dubbing)
Borges de Barros as Deus do Fogo (old dub)
Bruno Rocha as Grande Tambo (new dubbing)
Carlos Campanile as Izanagi (old dub)
Emerson Camargo as Pai de Suzano (old dub)
Gilberto Baroli as Grande Tambo (old dub)
Helena Sâmara as Amaterasu, Deusa do Sol (old dub)
Isaura Gomes as Izanami (old dub)
Ivete Jaime as Mãe de Suzano (old dub)
Márcia Regina as Amaterasu, Deusa do Sol (new dubbing)
Mauro Castro as Deus do Fogo (new dubbing)
Melissa Garcia as Princesinha (Kushinada) (new dubbing)
Potiguara Lopes as Ministro da Guerra (old dub)
Raquel Marinho as Izanami (new dubbing)

Araken Saldanha as Ministro da Guerra (new dubbing)
Borges de Barros as Papai Rato (old dub)
Fábio Tomasini as Barba Longa (new dubbing)
Fábio Vila Longa as Papai Rato (new dubbing)
Francisco Borges as Locução
Jonas Mello as Taro, o Tigre (new dubbing)
Jorge Barcellos as Locução (new dubbing)
José Soares as Rei do Mar (new dubbing)
Márcia Regina as Narradora (new dubbing)

João Batista (new dubbing)
Jorge Barcellos (new dub)
Marcos Hailer (new dub)
Nelson Machado (new dubbing)
Renato Soares (new dub; new dubbing)
Rita Almeida (new dubbing)
Sérgio Corsetti (new dubbing)
Sílvio Giraldi (new dub)
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster:
Cartoon Network Brasil (new dubbing)
Rede Bandeirantes (old dub)
Rede Globo (old dub)
Rede Manchete (Brazil-old dubbing)
Rede Record (old dub)
Dubbing Studio:
A.I.C São Paulo (old dub)
Sigma (new dubbing)

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