Donbee Monogatari
English title: Donbe's Story
Japanese title: どんべえ物語
Type: TV Special
Source: Unknown
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 26, 1981
Duration: 1 hr 11 min
Rating: G - All Ages
Studios: Eiken
Demographics: Kids

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.