Taro the Dragon Boy backdrop

Taro the Dragon Boy

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Release Date: March 17, 1979

Status: Released

Genres:

Fantasy

Animation

Family

Adventure

Cast

Junya Kato

Taro (voice)

Mina Tominaga

Mina Tominaga

Aya (voice)

Kirio Urayama

Kirio Urayama

Tengu (voice)

Junko Kuroda

Narrator (voice)

Kazuo Kitamura

Kazuo Kitamura

Black Oni (voice)

Kazuo Kumakura

Kazuo Kumakura

Red Oni (voice)

Kirin Kiki

Kirin Kiki

Yamanba (voice)

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Tatsuya (voice)

Toshiko Yabuki

Tarō's Grandmother (voice)

Tsuneo Sanada

Hakuja (voice)