Hideyuki Umezu
Also Known As: 梅津 秀行, Umezu Hideyuki
Biography: Hideyuki Umezu (梅津秀行, Umezu Hideyuki born July 24, 1955) is a Japanese voice actor. Some of his more notable anime and video games roles include Battle Rock and Growvine from Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos, Barry the Chopper from Full Metal Alchemist, Vindel Mauser from the Super Robot Wars franchise and the narrator from Death Note. He's also voiced characters in almost a dozen different installments of theSuper Sentai franchise.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Japan
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Mr. Pen Pen
Overview: Pen-Pen, the hat-and-tie-wearing prince of Penguin Land, turns up unexpectedly on little Mika's doorstep. and invites himself and his zany friends to stay.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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The Gigolo: Dochinpira
Overview: Jin is a twenty-two year old stud, with good looks. He's challenged by sexy Ai Mizushima to make her orgasm - it's a wager he can't refuse especially when the prize is a brand new sports car.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Robot Carnival
Overview: An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-21
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Genji
Overview: One day, Katsumi's girlfriend Sakura suddenly disappears, and all his friends do not remember anything about her. In pursuit of his love, Katsumi finds himself in a parallel world of Japan in the midst of a civil war between two clans Taira and Genji.
Genres: Animation Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-21
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
Overview: The year is 2314 AD, two years have passed since the defeat of the Innovades and the exposure of the A-Laws' crimes against humanity. The A-Laws have been abolished and their infrastructure integrated into the Earth Sphere Federation Army. However, the world's exposure to GN Particles has resulted in many people awakening as True Innovators. Celestial Being has returned to the shadows to rebuild and quietly observe the infantile peace. However, an abandoned probe from an expedition to Jupiter 130 years ago approaches Earth bringing a new crisis with it, one that threatens all of mankind. While Celestial Being begins their final mission to save humanity from an unimaginable threat, Gundam Meister Setsuna F. Seiei is about to discover the true purpose of his evolution as an Innovator. Aeolia Schenberg's plan has moved into its final stage...
Genres: Action Animation Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Golgo 13: Queen Bee
Overview: Golgo 13, Japan's most celebrated and notorious assassin, meets his match in Queen Bee, the leader of a South American liberation army, whom he must kill before she can assassinate a popular presidential candidate. However, once Golgo 13 penetrates the Queen's hive, he realizes that the machinations behind the planned assassination are more complex than he could have imagined.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-21
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Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia
Overview: The Lovely Angels are dispatched to the planet of Ookbar in search of a missing girl. Kei and Yuri have traced young Missinie to the forest of Nolandia, but their investigations have stalled thanks to the less than helpful Chief of Security. But Kei and Yuri never let a little bureaucracy stand in their way. It's the unicorns and UFOs, not to mention the rampaging killer robot, that are going to be the problem as the Dirty Pair tackle their toughest case yet.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition III: Return The World
Overview: Like the Japanese Special Editions of other Gundam and Sunrise anime series, this is the last of three volumes, that will condense the second half of the second season of Gundam 00 into feature-length videos. They all feature some new animated sequences and some partially re-recorded dialogue.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition II: End of World
Overview: Like the Japanese Special Editions of other Gundam and Sunrise anime series, this is the second of three volumes, that will condense the first half of the second season of Gundam 00 into feature-length videos. They all feature some new animated sequences and some partially re-recorded dialogue.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure Science Fiction War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition I: Celestial Being
Overview: Like the Japanese Special Editions of other Gundam and Sunrise anime series, this is the first of three volumes that will condense the first 25-episode season of Gundam 00 into feature-length videos. They all feature some new animated sequences and some partially re-recorded dialogue.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure Science Fiction War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-27
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Broken Blade: The Time of Awakening
Overview: In the continent of Cruzon, an impending war between the Kingdom of Krisna and the nation of Athens is brimming. The people of this land are able to use quartz for whatever purpose they desire. Yet one person, Rygart Arrow, is not. He is an "un-sorcerer," a person unable to use quartz. But this characteristic will enable him to pilot an ancient Golem, one strong enough to put up a fight against the invading army of Athens.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-29
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Broken Blade: The Path of Separation
Overview: Second Break Blade movie. The narration begins by revealing Athens invaded the Krisna Kingdom for allowing the Orlando Empire to cross into their land to attack Athens during their power struggle over Assam but the true purpose of the invasion is to take over the Krisna Quartz mines as Athens is suffering a shortage of Quartz. In the Athens capital of Ilios, Secretary of War Loquis has received news that his brother Zess has successfully reach Binonten. Meanwhile, Rygart manages to get a ceasefire between the Athens invaders and Krisna defenders and speaks with Zess.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-26
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Kousoku Sentai Turboranger: The Movie
Overview: The Turboranger must prevent a Bouma from unsealing his father in order to utilize his hellfire to burn the Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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Heavy
Overview: Guy is a Japanese street-brawler in New York who chooses to train under the famed boxer, Roman, with the hopes that he can raise enough money as a heavyweight to fund a life-saving operation for his father.
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-14
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Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser
Overview: A new member from the Black Organization that shrunk Shinichi's body manages to find out about Shinichi's transformation into Conan. This discovery starts to put those around him in danger as Gin and the other Black Organization members start to take action.
Genres: Animation Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-18
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Sol Bianca 2
Overview: The crew of the pirate ship Sol Bianca are out to steal some of the most valuable substance in the universe--Pasha. Small problem: they're not the only space pirates after the stuff. But, no big deal--they'll just burgle the burglars. That works out fine, except that the captain of the other ship doesn't take his defeat lightly and manages to infect the Sol Bianca with some machine-eating worms before getting arrested. Now they're stuck in jumpspace, and worse yet for the five, June is as sick as the ship and they don't even know what's wrong with her. By the time the crew figures out why nothing works, the police have shown up and the only plan they manage to come up with is to have Feb and April surrender and wait for the ship to recover. There's also a mysterious fellow who is not only trying to corner the market on Pasha, but seems to know all about the Sol Bianca and her crew--and he wants the captured pair transferred into his custody immediately.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Patema Inverted
Overview: A young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor
Overview: Sho and his friend Tetsurou stumble upon an odd alien artifact while walking through the woods. Then, the alien artifact breaks free of its metallic bonds and enters Sho's body, turning him into the Guyver. With this new power, Sho must do battle with the evil Chronos corporation and their genetically enhanced Zoanoids, who seek to get the Guyver back into their labs. No one close to Sho is safe from Chronos. He must fight.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-25
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Chouriki Sentai Ohranger: The Movie
Overview: Prince Bulldont abducts several children and forces them to act in his deadly realistic film, leaving Ohranger to save the day.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-15
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Scramble Wars
Overview: Take the characters from a number of sci-fi based animes, a stage not unlike "Wacky Races," super deformed madness, and general insanity and what you get is Scramble Wars. While Scramble Wars does include characters from the original Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force and Genesis Survivor Gaiarth, it also has a few other characters from other animes such as AD Police and Riding Bean.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Seven Cities Story: Arctic Front
Overview: In 2086, Earth's axis tilted 90 degrees and after three years span, approximately ten billion people died. One million colonists who had moved to the moon prior to the disaster escaped what later became known as "The Great Fall". At the moon, they established the Panhuman World Government and organized the recolonization of the world. Seven locations were chosen for cities as starting points for this massive project.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-22
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Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos
Overview: After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia's home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-02
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What's Michael?
Overview: Michael is a cat - with a difference. He lives with a cartoonist and his wife and does his best to keep his cool amid the trials of everyday life in suburbia, like fussing human girls, the local tough cat Nyazilla - just like big grey lizard, a foe too fearsome to take risks with - and the females of his own species.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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Battle Royale High School
Overview: When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samurai, interplanetary law enforcement, and even his own traitorous demon minions. Well animated fight scenes ensue.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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Otaku no Video
Overview: A hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Tokyo Revelation
Overview: Akito Kobayashi has always had an interest in the occult, and when he learns to control demons though the help of a computer program he created and magnetite, the essence of human life, he plans to unleash hell on earth. The only hinderance may lie within his old friend Kojiro Soma, who has the ability to stop the destruction, if he can find it within himself to do so.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Singles
Overview: Graduating senior Sakisaka Saki is secretly in love with her older sister Noriko's boyfriend, Kazame Kaname, unaware that Noriko and Kaname have broken up. Saki hopes to escape her dilemma when she goes to college, but she ends up attending the same college as Kaname. During orientation, she is recruited to Kaname's video club. He wants to film her, but so does another boy, Tachibana Daichi, who is secretly in love with her. Can the knots be untangled and true love find its true course?
Genres: Animation Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Domain of Murder
Overview: On the trail of a missing husband, private investigator Goro crosses paths with a deranged killer.
Genres: Mystery Animation Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-01
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Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress
Overview: Hamaji, a young huntress from the mountains, stumbles into the middle of a shogun’s vendetta against a group of human-dog hybrids, the Fusé. Rumors of Fusé murdering innocent people in the bustling city of Edo have sparked a bounty for their heads. Along with her brother, Hamaji joins the hunt for this dangerous quarry, but after accidentally befriending one of them, Hamaji is torn between two worlds: her life as a self-reliant huntress, and the young woman her new friend has helped her to uncover.
Genres: Animation Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-20
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Desert Rose
Overview: Mariko, codenamed "Rose Marie", is a leader of an anti-terrorism group, CAT (Counter Attack Terrorism). She lost her husband and son in a terrorist bomb attack at an airport. Also suffering injuries in the blast, she was left with a scar that looked like a rose flower on her chest. A secret summit conference is due to be held in Switzerland, with Marie's team deployed as security. However, it becomes clear terrorists have already made a move to sabotage the meeting...
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-25
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Cyber City Oedo 808
Overview: In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal apprehended, and for each successful mission done, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. Lead by Hasegawa, the new recruits: Sengoku, Gogul, and Benton will bring some hard justice to Oedo and possibly taste freedom again.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-21
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Tenchi Muyou! The Night Before the Carnival
Overview: A few days after Kagato is defeated everything returns to normal. Ryouko finds Mihoshi and Sasami reading shoujo manga, which Sasami mistakes as guides on how to win a boy's heart... Earth style. So Ryouko decides to try out the ideas from the manga to win over Tenchi. But Aeka finds out what her rival Ryouko is doing and tries to take advantage of the same method. Naturally, the results are less than satisfactory for all involved...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Hell Target
Overview: A spaceship is lost near the forbidden planet of Inferno II. Some years later, a second ship with a crew of nine gets there and encounters a monster that rapidly makes mince meat of most of them. The sole survivor, Makuro Kitazato, must destroy the monster before it can surprise a third ship that is already en route.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-21
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal
Overview: As the young girls have discovered the truth about the cruel fate of a magical girl, one magical girl after another is destroyed. Throughout it all, there is one magical girl who continues to fight alone - Homura Akemi. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal is a retelling of the second half of the TV anime series.
Genres: Thriller Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-13
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Ganbare Goemon: The Nightmare of the Dimensional Castle
Overview: The first OVA of the Ganbare Goemon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine
Overview: The third film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-14
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Rail of the Star - A True Story of Children and War
Overview: A young Japanese actress remembers her war childhood in Korea. Her father goes to fight, her baby sister Miko dies of typhoid, her beloved Korean maid Ohana is fired due to a mistake which could cost Chiko her life... By and by Chiko realizes that the country is being ruled by the Japanese and the Koreans are persecuted. When the war ends, the Koreans chase the Japanese rule and the roles change. Now Chiko's family is unwanted. But then the Russians come and this is the end. They have to burn all the pictures to avoid all suspicions... even Miko's picture. But when the Russians come to their house, they decide to flee over the 38th Parallel towards freedom. A group of men, women, children struggles along the mountains, led by the light of the Northern Star. Along the way they meet a Korean man, who is willing to help them to escape the Russian soldiers although his family was killed by the Japanese.
Genres: Animation Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-07
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Hanappe Bazooka
Overview: Lecherous high school boy Hanappe is visited by two demons who step from his TV and immediately fall in lust with his mother and sister. The demons turn Hanappe's home into a meeting ground for their demonic friends and grant Hanappe the power of the Hanappe Bazooka. Now his index finger is capable of both a deadly blast and the ability to drive women in a lustful frenzy, but Hanappe isn't very good at controlling it and winds up in serious trouble.
Genres: Animation Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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Hell Teacher Nube
Overview: Kumiko Ijima is a very timid girl who happens to recognize a murderer still in pursuit at a park. With the help of her friend Kyoko Inaba, she warns the police about the wanted man. After trying to escape the police by car, the murderer crashes and ends up in the hospital. Some time later, a mysterious entity starts to terrorize the neighborhood in search of a girl who has the name initials K.I. and uses a red ribbon on her hair.
Genres: Animation Horror Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-06
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Kitty-Cat Fantasia
Overview: "Shiro" is a black cat who loves her family very much. She loves them so much she wants to help them out in times of need and trouble…but it’s difficult to do this if she’s just a cat. So one night, she wishes on the moon to make her able to help, and the next day, she has turned into a human girl.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Ziggy: Soreyuke! R&R Band
Overview: Japanese rock band Ziggy comes to London and gets attacked upon arrival at the hotel after a recording session. The musicians barely escape the attack; however, soon they learn that their producer has been murdered, and they are the suspects! Chased by police and some mysterious organization, they find shelter at a local rockers' place and even give a performance there; but it is not too long before their pursuers appear again.
Genres: Animation Music Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-12
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