“Researcher raises orphaned bear cub Donbe on remote Hokkaido island while studying wild bears and facing poachers.”
Donbe's Story
どんべえ物語
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Researcher raises orphaned bear cub Donbe on remote Hokkaido island while studying wild bears and facing poachers.
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.
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A Tv special Production
Eiken.- Format 1 × 71′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 11m all episodes
- Aired Apr 1981 – ongoing
- Source Tv special media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-6555 catalog