Taro, the little dragon boy

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Anime movie
title Taro, the little dragon boy
Original title 龍 の 子 太郎
transcription Tatsu no Ko Taro
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1979
Studio Tōei Dōga
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Kirio Urayama
script Isao Takahata
production Chiaki Imada
music Riichirō Manabe
synchronization

Taro, the little dragon boy ( Japanese. 龍 の 子 太郎 , Tatsu no Ko Tarō ) is an anime film by director Kirio Urayama from 1979. The film is also known under the titles Taro, the dragon boy and Taro, the dragon boy .

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The boy Taro, also known as the “dragon boy”, lives with his grandmother in a poor medieval village. The villagers regard him as hungry and lazy, as he hardly helps them with field work. But he has made friends with the animals of the forest. One day he fights a tengu and impresses it so much that it gives him the strength of 100 men. However, Taro can only use it when he wants to help others. Then he also helps the residents of the village.

Soon afterwards he meets the beautiful girl Aya from a strange village, whose flute playing attracts the animals of the forest. He protects them from the red oni who wanted to attract the animals with his drums. Taro promises Aya to protect her forever. In the evening Taro learns that his mother did not die as he always thought, but turned into a dragon when he was born and is now waiting for him somewhere. She is blind because she gave her eyeballs as food for him as an infant. He is about to leave for her, but the news reaches him that the red Oni has kidnapped Aya. But when he got there, Aya is kidnapped by the black oni who rules the red one. Both set off and with combined forces all three can kill the black Oni. Therefore the residents of the nearby village are also freed from the oppression, they give Taro food and lodging, but he wants to go on looking for his mother.

Taro soon comes to an old woman who promises to be able to talk to the dragon in the lake behind her hut if he helps her. But after all efforts, Taro realizes that only one snake lives in the lake and that the woman wanted to exploit him. But the snake refers him to an old woman in the mountains. He learns about this from a kite in a lake in the north. On the way there, Taro almost perishes in the snow, but Aya comes to his aid with a magic mirror and a flying steed that come from the cave of the black Oni.

At the lake in the north, Taro finally meets the dragon, his mother. She tells him that she was changed by the gods because when she was pregnant she ate all her provisions while hunting and left nothing to others. After he was born, she retired to the lake. In order to help the people of the village, she dries up the lake by breaking a rock with her body. Thereupon she turns back into a woman and the residents of the village move to the fertile plain.

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The film is based on the children's book Tatsu no Ko Taro by Miyoko Matsutani, which in turn uses an old Japanese folk tale.

Production and publication

The film was produced in 1979 by the Toei Animation studio , directed by Kirio Urayama . The character design was created by Reiko Okuyama and Youichi Otabe, and Isamu Tsuchida was the artistic director. Riichiro Manabe composed the music. The anime was released in Japanese theaters on March 17, 1979.

The film has been translated into English, Spanish and Arabic, among others. On September 4, 1983, the film was broadcast under the title Taro, the dragon boy in the first program of the GDR television . In 1984 Silwa Video released the film, Taro, the Dragon Boy, on video. In 1986 it was broadcast on RTL plus as Taro, the little dragon boy . This was the title of further repetitions on RTL and arte .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
taro Jun'ya Kato Roswitha Marks
Tatsuya Sayuri Yoshinaga Rosemarie Deibel
Aya Mīna Tominaga Heidemarie Gohde

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anime no Tomodachi about the anime

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