Donbe's Story

Animation, TV Movie

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Bonjin Nagaki

Status Released

Release Date 1981-04-26

Storyline

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.