{"id":31760,"date":"2019-08-15T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31760"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:03:47","slug":"jungle-emperor-leo-janguru-taitei-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/15\/jungle-emperor-leo-janguru-taitei-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Jungle Emperor Leo (Janguru taitei) (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ll plead ignorance by admitting that I wasn\u2019t aware that \u201cThe Lion King\u201d was controversial for being touted as plagiarizing \u201cKimba The White Lion\u201d and \u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d since the aforementioned film\u2019s release. There are even reports of Matthew Broderick explaining his new project as a remake of \u201cKimba.\u201d As for other similarities explained by anime fans, you really can\u2019t deny the shocking similarities. \u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d is worth viewing not just because of its inherent entertainment value and great animation from Tezuka Productions, but the fact that it bears shocking similarities to \u201cThe Lion King.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At the foot of the mysterious Moon Mountain lives a white lion named Leo, ruler of the jungle. He and his family live peacefully among the other animals in a lush habitat that they cultivate and defend. Humans have entered Leo\u2019s domain, shattering the peace in their greedy search for moonlight stones, a source of exquisite wealth. Overwhelmed by greed, they have little regard for the living creatures of the jungle. The animals, disturbed by the occupation of their rightful home, must resist the intruders and fight them off with the help of Leo.<\/p>\n

Based on the popular manga “Jungle Taitei,\u201d Yoshio Takeuchi\u2019s \u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d is a solid animated film. It\u2019s an often entertaining jungle adventure fantasy that focuses primarily on the animals and garners duel sub-plots that never quite meet until the end. The opening bears a stunning similarity to \u201cThe Lion King\u201d Circle of Life prologue, with\u00a0 Lion emperor Leo, a white lion with a wife, Liya, has just given birth to two cubs; a boy Lune (pronounced loo-nay), also an albino, and a girl, Lukyo, who looks like her mother. A la \u201cThe Lion King<\/em>,\u201d a bird flaps through the forest spreading news of the “royal” birth, and all of the animals come to pay homage from all corners of the jungle. They then finally stop to see the unveiling of the pair of lion cubs.<\/p>\n

But the scenario automatically flips to humans, where a shifty character named Hamm-egg is trying to sell an unusual pink gem. Oddly enough while the animals can talk to one another, they talk to the humans, but have to contend with their search for the gem. Along the way Leo has to fight off the humans while protecting his cubs, both of whom have an odd fascination with the humans. They only confront one really decent person in the whole shebang, as Leo garners some respect for the humans but never quite trusts them. The focus of the film is mainly on Leo the Lion Emperor with only a about forty percent devoted to his cubs and their adventure.<\/p>\n

I would not show this movie to kids younger than ten years, as \u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d has some on screen deaths both animal and human. In the first few minutes we meet Hamm Egg, he even shoots a warthog in cold blood. Unless you want to spend a good hour explaining to your children that it\u2019s just animation and no real animals died, \u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d is mainly entertaining for its sharp animation and similarity to \u201cThe Lion King,\u201d a fact that Disney has all but managed to stomp out of existence since 1994.<\/p>\n

All hail glorious ruler Mickey of Disney.<\/p>\n

\u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d can be now be seen on Cocoro, a free, ad-supported streaming platform available on most streaming services.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll plead ignorance by admitting that I wasn\u2019t aware that \u201cThe Lion King\u201d was controversial for being touted as plagiarizing \u201cKimba The White Lion\u201d and \u201cJungle Emperor Leo\u201d since the aforementioned film\u2019s release. There are even reports of Matthew Broderick explaining his new project as a remake of \u201cKimba.\u201d As for other similarities explained by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,71,99,100,349],"class_list":["post-31760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-anime","tag-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31762,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760\/revisions\/31762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}