The Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon

Wanpaku Ōji no Orochi Taiji

Japan

1963

86 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Ichiro Ikeda, Takashi Iijima

DP Mitsuaki Ishikawa, Hideaki Sugawara

CAST Morio Kazama, Yukiko Okada, Chiharu Kuri, Hideo Kinoshita, Setsuo Shinoda, Masato Yamanouchi, Shûichi Kazamatsuri, Noriko Shindô, Kinshirô Iwao, Kiyoshi Kawakubo

ANIM Yasuo Ôtsuka, Makoto Nagasawa, Masatake Kita, Chikao Katsui, Hideo Furusawa

SOUND Sachio Ishii, Takeshi Mori

Synopsis

Based of Japanese mythology, a little prince leaves home to find the spirit of his dead mother. Along the way he battles a giant fish, a fire monster and the eight-headed dragon. Now difficult to find, this anamorphic-widescreen Japanese animated feature served as an inspiration for Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of “Samurai Jack” and episode director of several Cartoon Network series. —CartoonResearch.com