Rex: Kyoryu Monogatari (1993)

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Synopsis by Jonathan Crow

E.T. meets Jurassic Park by way of Hello Kitty with this tale about a young girl and her baby T-Rex. Though she lives in an idyllic farm in rural Hokkaido with her scientist dad (Tsunehiko Watase), Chie (Yumi Adachi) is unhappy. Instead of taking care of her at home, her heartless mother (Shinobu Otake) had the gall to pursue a career as a geneticist -- in New York. One day, a kindly old Ainu -- the Japanese equivalent of Native Americans -- shows Chie and her father a dinosaur egg in a remote rock crevasse. Later as her father and mother scratch their heads about this bizarre prehistoric discovery, Chie inadvertently hatches the thing by playing a flute given to her by the old Ainu. Instead of being a sharp-toothed bloodthirsty maul of death, the T-Rex proves to be downright cute. Soon its following her around like a puppy, as she teaches it to eat and poo like a human. Soon the press and a band of baddies get wind of Chie's adorable find and seek to do nefarious things.