Yasashii Lion

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: The Kindly Lion, The Gentle Lion

Japanese: やさしいライオン

Information

Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 21, 1970

Producers: Mushi Production

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Studios: None found, add some

Source: Picture book

Genres: Award Winning, Fantasy

Theme: Music

Demographic: Kids

Duration: 27 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

Statistics

Score: 5.50¹ (scored by 476 users)

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Ranked: #11942²

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Popularity: #13738

Members: 1,073

Favorites: 1

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Ranked #11942Popularity #13738Members 1,073

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Synopsis

This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother. Although Tezuka Osamu planned to create an entire musical animated series for this story focused on the feelings of the mother dog and baby lion, this animated production was the only one never completed.

(Source: Official Tezuka site)

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Winner of the Oufuji Noburou Award.

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Staff

Tezuka, Osamu

Director, Executive Producer

Matsuura, Noriyoshi

Editing

Yanase, Takashi

Original Creator

Bonny Jacks

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Reviews

Dec 16, 2018

matthigh

Mixed Feelings

A single episode story, a tale aimed at young children about an orphaned lion cub (Buru-Buru) that is adopted by a motherly dog (Muku-Muku). She raises him up to be kind and strong, even though he is different from her. (Moral: It doesn't matter how you look on the outside, what matters is what you are on the inside.) And then the problems Buru-Buru encounters as he grows up.

Simple child-friendly drawings, simple animation with minimalist backgrounds, and a kindly narrator with child that will speak a few sentences of the story, followed by a minute or two ...