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| Tao Tao Ehonkan | |
.jpg) Screenshot from Taotao | |
| タオタオ絵本館 | |
|---|---|
| Anime film | |
| Shunmao Monogatari Taotao シュンマオ物語 タオタオ | |
| Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
| Studio | Shochiku Shun Mao Production Committee Tianjin City Craft Art Design Institute |
| Released | December 26, 1981 |
| Runtime | 1 hour, 30 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shuichi Nakahara Tatsuo Shimamura |
| Studio | Shun Mao,Tsuchida Production |
| Original network | TV Osaka |
| Original run | October 7, 1983 – April 9, 1985 |
| Episodes | 52 |
Taotao[a] is a Japaneseanimated TV series that aired for a total of 52 episodes onTV Osaka. The first series aired from October 7, 1983 through March 30, 1984. A second series with the same title was aired from October 9, 1984 through April 9, 1985.
Prior to the TV series, an feature-length animated film was released on December 26, 1981. It is not specified if the series was intended to be connected with the film and, if so, if the series takes place before the film or after it (e.g. in another realm). Both the film and the TV series were produced as a co-production betweenChina,Japan andGermany, and directed by Shuichi Nakahara and Tatsuo Shimamura.
The series is about the eponymous Taotao, an anthropomorphicpanda cub. In the stories, Taotao goes on adventures with his animal friends and listens to the stories of his mother.
The theme song of the series was composed by theCzech composerKarel Svoboda.
The series has been shown inFinnish on theYleisradio channels, where it was narrated by Inkeri Wallenius, and in Austria, it was broadcast inGerman byORF.
The series was also broadcast inIsrael where it was dubbed intoHebrew. The theme song for the Hebrew dub was sung byIlanit. InGreece, the series was broadcast in the 1980s onET1. In the late 1980s, it was broadcast inAfrikaans inSouth Africa. It was also broadcast in the early 1990s multiple times as تاو' تاو' in theArab world.
The series was also broadcast inAlbania in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Meanwhile, Albania's communist prime ministerAdil Çarçani was informally referred to as Tao Tao by Albanian dissidents during the protests leading to thefall of communism in Albania.[1][2]
The series has been broadcast inFrench Canada onTélévision de Radio-Canada, where it was dubbed intoQuebec French, and inFrance, it aired from 1987 onFR3. The series also aired on Portuguese TV in 1987. InSerbia, the film was released on DVD in 2007 throughCity Records and Dexin Film. The Serbian dub was released by Studio Mirijus.
In 1992, as part of a collaboration with CFI in France,Vietnam Television broadcast the series inVietnamese as part of their children's programNhững bông hoa nhỏ.[3]
The Finnish bandGuava published the Taotao theme song as a single in 2003.