Taro the Dragon Boy

1979 · 75 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 951 VOTES · DIR. Kirio Urayama

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 690 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:01 Special Literary Recognition Selection
00:03:17 Shut up, you!
00:06:21 Sumo wrestling. Tengu-sama loves Sumo wrestling.
00:09:12 Now you have the strength of one hundred men!
00:12:32 Play some more for me.
00:15:40 Was she pretty?
00:18:26 Tatsu. So that ball was your eyeball?
00:21:02 In Black Iron Mountain over that way.
00:23:00 Good!
00:26:20 Why you!
00:29:19 This is... all the rice we had grown!
00:32:03 This place has so much more open space than my village
00:35:01 I want to feed some of this to my Grandma and the people in my village.
00:37:14 I wonder what happened here?
00:39:43 What the? Huh? Old lady.
00:43:48 Winds from the sea, blow strong!
00:47:11 Are you sure?
00:50:03 We can't let them suffer while we have such wonderful food.
00:52:39 I see. That snake also used to be a woman
00:56:26 Come, Taro, let's fly together.
00:59:51 I'm not sure I want to. Yes, she might eat us.
01:02:39 I wanted the fish to help my baby grow strong.
01:04:52 So I want to help people who are having trouble.
01:08:40 Fine.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed690
Dialogue density9.2 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:08:40

Production Record

DirectorKirio Urayama
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes951