"Janguru taitei" (1965) TV series 1965-1967

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Eiichi Yamamoto

Writers:

Shin'ichi Yukimuro (7 episodes)
Osamu Tezuka (writer)
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Release Date:

6 October 1965 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family

Plot Keywords:

Anime | Animal | Utopia Quest | Africa | Lion

Cast

Gorô Naya	...	Clav (voice)
Junji Chiba	...	Hige Oyaji (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gil Mack	...	Pauley Cracker (1966) (voice: English version) (as Gilbert Mack)
Ray Owens	...	Narrator / Dan'l (1966) (voice: English version) (as Cliff Owens)
Sonia Owens	...	(voice)
Hal Studer	...	Roger Ranger (1966) (voice: English version)
Billie Lou Watt	...	Kimba (1966) (voice: English version)

Directed by
Eiichi Yamamoto

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Fred Ladd		English dialogue (uncredited)
Ray Owens		English dialogue (uncredited)
Sonia Owens		English dialogue (uncredited)
Peter J. Solmo		English dialogue (uncredited)
Osamu Tezuka		writer
Masaki Tsuji		screenplay
Billie Lou Watt		English dialogue (uncredited)
Eiichi Yamamoto		screenplay
Shin'ichi Yukimuro		7 episodes

Produced by
Osamu Tezuka	....	producer
Eiichi Yamamoto	....	producer

Original Music by
Bill Giant		(1965)
Isao Tomita

Film Editing by
Masashi Furukawa

Art Direction by
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Animation Department
Shigeru Hirabayashi	....	background artist
Iso Ho	....	background artist
Ken Ishii	....	background artist
Junko Kataoka	....	background artist
Chikao Katsui	....	animation director
Noboru Mizutani	....	background artist
Shoko Owaki	....	background artist
Morishige Suzuki	....	background artist
Wakako Tajima	....	background artist
Masako Tanaka	....	background artist
Tsuyoshi Watanabe	....	background artist

Other crew
Fred Ladd	....	coordinator: english language version (1966)
Hideo Obara	....	animal supervisor
Peter J. Solmo	....	English language version

Production Companies

• Mushi Productions

Also Known As:

"Jungle Emperor" (International: English title)
"Kimba the White Lion" (USA)

Runtime:

24 min (52 episodes)

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | USA:TV-G

Company:

Mushi Productions

Movie Connections:

Remade as "Shinsaku jungle taitei" (1989)

Soundtrack:

Kimba The White Lion

Kimba the white lion is his name...

Although I remember Kimba from the early 1970s, it says here that the show began in 1966. This show was very popular in its day. Kimba wanted to turn all the jungle predators into vegetarians so everyone could live in peace and harmony. Actually it does sound like a show from the 60s. This show was based on a Japanese mangra (comic book)called Jungle Emperor. While there are some differences from Disney's The Lion King, there are enough similarities that somebody somewhere could have made a few bucks had they decided to protest. Kimba got into lots of fights with everything from mutant grasshoppers to saber-tooth tigers.