The Killer Bear
Foreign titles: Kum Kum (French), Kum Kum (German), Kum Kum Il Cavernicolo (Italian), As Aventuras de Cacá (Portuguese)
Series title: わんぱく大昔ク
- Studio
- ITC Japan
- Animation studio
- Sunrise
Synopsis
While looking for his Poppa on a snowy hillside, Kum Kum has a close encounter with a ferocious black bear which clearly has an injured eye. When he tells Strongarm about it, his father becomes very serious: after many years, One-eye, the beast who killed his best friend, has returned. Determined to avenge his friend, Strongarm sets off with Kum to track down One-eye and kill him.
Characters
Kum-kum, Furu-furu, Chil-chil, Mochi-mochi, Aron, Butterfly, Littlerock, Bumbles, Strong Arm, The Wise One, Jumbo, Waterlily, Wildflower, Roman, Dark Eyes, Tum Tum
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Rintaro, Noboru Ishiguro, Wataru Mizusawa
- Director (English Version)
- Phil Judd
Producing
- Producer
- Phil Judd
- Executive Producer
- Banjiro Uemura
Writing
- Writer
- Eiichi Tachi, Keisuke Fujikawa, Yoshiaki Yoshida
- Creator
- Madoka Akitsu
- Script Supervisor
- Noel Judd
Voices
- Voice
- Barbara Frawley, Ray Hartley, Noel Judd, Beryl Marshall, Derani Scarr, Keith Scott (English Voice Cast)
Music
- Music
- Masami Uno
Animation
- Animator
- Rintaro, Noboru Ishiguro, Minoru Tajima, Akio Sakai
Art Department
- Art Director
- Katsunari Nakaba
- Design
- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Editing
- Assistant Film Editor
- Al Perez
Sound
- Recordist
- Phil Heywood
- Mixer
- Phil Heywood
Production Management
- Post-Production Coordinator
- Santo L. Bernardo
- Post-Production Advisor
- Mike Policare
- Paramount Production Executive
- Bruce Gordon
Production notes
This TV series ran for 26 episodes.
Created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.
The airing of this series on British children's TV in the early 1980s was the first English-language broadcast of work by Yasuhiko. The show was a surprising success, perhaps because its hero didn't wear any pants.
This series was bought by Paramount for import to the United States, but there is no indication that it was ever televised there. The series was dubbed into English in Australia using a voice cast of Australians, along with Australian technical crew.
Created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko.
The airing of this series on British children's TV in the early 1980s was the first English-language broadcast of work by Yasuhiko. The show was a surprising success, perhaps because its hero didn't wear any pants.
This series was bought by Paramount for import to the United States, but there is no indication that it was ever televised there. The series was dubbed into English in Australia using a voice cast of Australians, along with Australian technical crew.