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Donbe's Story

どんべえ物語

Release: 1981-04-26 ·Runtime: 71m
Animation TV Movie

Researcher Mutsugoro takes his family to a remote and uninhabited island near Hokkaido, to study the local population of wild bears. Nearby poachers make his life difficult, and he "inherits" an orphaned bear cub, whom the family call Donbe and raise as one of their own.

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Eiken