''The Tibetan Dog'' (; ) is a 2011 Chinese/Japanese animated film directed by

Masayuki Kojima is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director, best known for directing the acclaimed anime series ''Monster'' and ''Made in Abyss''. He was born on March 11, 1961 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan. Career Kojima first got his start in the ...

, co-produced by Madhouse,

China Film Group Corporation China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), is the largest, most influential film enterprise in the People's Republic of China, owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. According to ''Forbes'', it is a state monopoly that al ...

and Ciwen Pictures. It is based on the novel ''Mastiffs of the Plateau'' by Yang Zhijun. It premiered at 51st Annecy Film Festival in June 2011. Manga artist

Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his ...

provided the initial character designs, before they were reworked by Shigeru Fujita. In this film, a young boy named Tenzing leaves for Tibet after his mother passes away to live with his father in the prairies and encounters a true friend in form of a golden

Tibetan Mastiff The Tibetan Mastiff ( bo, འདོགས་ཁྱི, THL: , Wylie: ) * Nepali: * Mongolian: * Hindi/ Garhwali/ Kumaoni: * Kashmiri: * Ladakhi: * Dzongkha: is a large size Tibetan dog breed. Its double coat is medium to long, subject t ...

. Maiden Japan released the film on home video in the U.S.

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* * 2011 animated films 2011 films 2011 anime films Chinese animated films Films about Tibet Films directed by Masayuki Kojima Japanese animated films Madhouse (company) Maiden Japan Tibetan-language films Naoki Urasawa {{anime-film-stub