The Kindly Lion

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The Kindly Lion

1970

0h 27m

6.3(3 votes)

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Family

Music

Overview

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.

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久里千春

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増山江威子

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