Junya Kato

Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kirio Urayama
CAST:  Kazuo Kitamura  •  Junya Kato  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Kazuo Kumakura

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kirio Urayama
CAST:  Kazuo Kitamura  •  Junya Kato  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Kazuo Kumakura

Curse of the Dog God (1977)

In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shunya Ito
CAST:  Shin'ya Ohwada  •  Emiko Yamauchi  •  Masami Hasegawa  •  Jun Izumi

In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shunya Ito
CAST:  Shin'ya Ohwada  •  Emiko Yamauchi  •  Masami Hasegawa  •  Jun Izumi