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| | Janguru taitei (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | JUNGLE TAITEI picks up the story of Leo, the white lion, in adulthood as he maintains his rule over the jungle and helps his wife, Liya, raise their two cubs, Rune and Rukyo, amidst a land teeming with all sorts of wildlife, many of whom eagerly assist the regal Leo, although the elephants frequently dissent. |
 | | Eventually, Leo decides to form an alliance with the one good human, Professor Hige Oyaji, who sports a trademark handlebar mustache (and was a character in Tezuka's "Astro Boy" as well), and decides to help him beat the bad humans, led by the greedy Hamegg, to the site of the stones. |
 | | A second plot in the newer film involves Leo's precocious male cub, Rune (a dead ringer for Leo/Kimba as a child), who develops a curiosity about all things human after he explores a vegetation-covered ruin of an airplane and finds a music box which proves to be endlessly fascinating to him. |
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