Kei Tomiyama
Also Known As: 富山敬, Kunichika Tomiyama, 富山邦親, とみやま けい, とみやま くにちか
Biography: Kunichika Tomiyama (冨山 邦親, Tomiyama Kunichika, October 31, 1938 – September 25, 1995), better known by his stage name Kei Tomiyama (富山 敬, Tomiyama Kei), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator born in Anshan, Manchukuo. Tomiyama was affiliated with Aoni Production and Production Baobab. Tomiyama is best known for his roles in Tiger Mask (Naoto Date/Tiger Mask), Space Battleship Yamato (Susumu Kodai), UFO Robo Grendizer (Duke Fleed/Daisuke Umon), the Time Bokan series (Narrator), GeGeGe no Kitaro 3rd Series (Nezumi-Otoko), Chibi Maruko-chan (Tomozō Sakura, Shintarō Honami), and Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Yang Wen-li).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anshan, Fengtian, Manchukuo [now Anshan, Liaoning, China]
Adult: No
Birthday: October 31, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 25, 1995
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Tiger Mask (1970)
Overview: Naoto Date, also known as Tiger Mask, betrayed the international villainous wrestler group "Tiger's Den" to which he belongs in order to protect the orphanage "Children's House", which can be said to be his parents' home. Tora no Ana, who is trying to punish him with death, sends the beastman gorillaman as the next assassin. Faced with a formidable foe who boasts superhuman strength, he once thought about using a foul technique to get through.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-17
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UFO Robot Grendizer Theatrical Version
Overview: Special episode in cinemascope format for Japanese cinemas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-20
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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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The Devil and a Princess
Overview: Once upon a time, in a certain region of a certain country, there was a castle called "Tomorrow's Castle" surrounded by peanut fields. The 18-year-old Princess Gimi has a reputation for being beautiful to the world, but she is actually a bitch who drinks alcohol in the daytime. Even so, the princess, who has a desire to get married like everyone else, beautifies herself considerably...
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Golgo 13: The Professional
Overview: Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to women, the professional assassin codenamed Golgo 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. If you're on his hit list, you're already dead. Always hired on his reputation alone, Golgo never breaks a contract. Can he survive the combined forces of the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon and the U.S. Army? Has the nameless agent finally met his match against the superhuman powers of the Snake and the twin evils of the psychopathic mercenaries, Gold and Silver?
Genres: Crime Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-05-28
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Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Final Yamato
Overview: The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-19
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Ninku the Movie
Overview: They have the reputation of being the top martial arts team in the world. They have combat techniques which can control the very elements. They have a small penguin. They are the Ninku, full of martial art prowess, low on brain power, and totally devoid of the respect they deserve.
Genres: Animation Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-15
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Overview: Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-10
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Sanshiro the Judoist
Overview: In the year 1882, Sanshirou comes to Tokyo seeking for a worthy martial arts teacher. There, he meets Yano - a judo master who single-handedly defeats 39 jujitsu practitioners. Extremely impressed by his skill, Sanshirou decides to become his disciple. Later, Sanshirou falls for Sayo Murai - a girl whose father is a martial arts instructor at the local police department; and he also has to face Higaki Gennosuke, a skilled jujitsu fighter and his greatest rival.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-08
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Riding Bean
Overview: Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire - transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. But when they are hired to escort a kidnapped girl named Chelsea to her home, they don't realize they're being framed for kidnapping as their former clients Semmerling and Carrie plan their escape with Chelsea's father and the ransom money.
Genres: Animation Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-22
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Wrath of the Ninja: The Yotoden Movie
Overview: The year is 1580, and the unholy armies of Lord Nobunaga Oda spread across Japan, murdering all who oppose them. Narrowly escaping the slaughter of her clan, a young ninja steals into the shadows. She is the last of her kind, and the dagger she wields is one of three mystical blades that can end Lord Oda's rule. On her quest to overthrow the tyrant, she is joined by two other renegade ninja, possessors of the sacred sword and spear. Together, these shadow warriors must unite their weapons and skills to fulfill the Prophesy of the Enchanted Swords... or die trying.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-27
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Toward a Time of Trouble
Overview: In prehistoric Mongolia lived a couple—Bogdo and Fayau. Their happy life is torn apart when Fayau is abducted by an invading tribe. With the supreme guardian spirit "Red Stag"'s blessing, Bogdo ventures out to the ocean but his journey ends without fulfilling his wish to be reunited with Fayau. The Red Stag, however, promises that the lovers' paths will cross again in time. The strong love between Bogdo and Fayau survives through 10,000 years of human history, as they are reborn into the Age of Discovery and again into today's world.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-16
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War
Overview: Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name Lohengramm, while Yang and his friends celebrate some welcome news.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-18
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars
Overview: For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-06
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Bokura Mangaka: Tokiwa-sou Monogatari
Overview: Tokiwa was the apartment complex where a group of stellar artists lived in 1953. Hiro Terada, Motoo Abiko and Hiroshi Fujimoto, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka shared the trials and tribulations of being struggling young artists and writers with no money and no luck with editors or girls, with a spirit of insane youthful enthusiasm that enabled them to survive the lean years and emerge as stars of the manga firmament.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day
Overview: Kyousuke and Madoka have finally arrived at the point where they are close to graduation and have to decide where they want to go to college. Naturally, they want to go together, so beside all the studying they also have to look for a proper college where they can enter both. Hikaru, still a year from graduating, wants to support Kyousuke as well and does that in her own way. But while she does that, Madoka feels jealous and tells her feelings to Kyousuke. And then Kyousuke has to take action to finally decide on the girl he loves.
Genres: Romance Animation Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-08
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Time Patrol
Overview: Time Patrol is a film cut from Tatsunoko's Time Bokan by Harmony Gold. This adaptation was made after the two Time Fighters films, but unlike them, it was never distributed in the US.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Time Patrol
Overview: Time Patrol is a film cut from Tatsunoko's Time Bokan by Harmony Gold. This adaptation was made after the two Time Fighters films, but unlike them, it was never distributed in the US.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
Overview: Anime film based on the novel "813" by Maurice Leblanc.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-05
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Maison Ikkoku: The Final Chapter
Overview: Yagami comes to Maison Ikkoku, not knowing of Godai's and Kyoko's wedding, stating that she is now an adult, which she is, not knowing how to tell her, they panic, but she finds out in the end, and is heart broken.
Genres: Animation Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-06
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Serendipity the Pink Dragon
Overview: After a boy is shipwrecked on a deserted island, he finds a pink egg which hatches into the pink dragon (referred to as a dinosaur in the English-language theme song) named Serendipity. A feature-length compilation of the 26 episode Nippon TV series.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-09
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Tottoi
Overview: Based on the novel Tottòi by Gianni Padoan. Sardinia is abundant in beautiful beaches and mysterious caves which are known as the habitat of a peculiar kind of seal on the verge of extinction. After moving to this island, Tottoi, fascinated by nature, visits different beaches and caves everyday. When he finds a seal cub and its mother in an isolated cave, he is surprised by the humorous movements and innocence of the cub and the dignity of its mother. Tottoi soon becomes attached to the seals, but his secret is revealed to heartless adults. In the name of preservation, a plan is developed to capture them for an aquarium. Now the dignity and pride of the wild seal are in danger. No matter how painful for Tottoi to be separated from his small friends, he must fight for the welfare of the wild mammals and let them go free into the sea.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko
Overview: Yoko Asagiri is in love, but is afraid to confess her feelings so she writes a song to express her feelings. Much to her dismay, the love song she wrote acted as a bridge connecting the world in which she lived in to that of Earth's alternate world called "Ashanti." There, the ruler of that world wants her song so that he could use it to open a doorway to Yoko's world and conquer it with his armies. Using the artifacts left behind by the legendary warrior Leda who prophesized her arrival, Yoko and her newfound friends must stop the tyrant's ambition and return both worlds to their proper place and balance.
Genres: Fantasy Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-16
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth
Overview: After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus Empire. Harlock, a captain in earth's fleet, crashes his ship to prevent the Illumidus from using it, and flat-out refuses to join them. With the help of his allies, Tochiro and the space pirate Emereldas, and his lover Miya, he wages a private and bitter war against the Illumidus.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-28
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Monster of Frankenstein
Overview: The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together with his partner Zuckel, the monster attacks the assistant and falls from a cliff. Assuming the monster is dead, Victor returns to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Emily. A police inspector named Bellbeau investigates some mysterious mutilations killings, and Victor is blackmailed by his former assistant, who lost an eye in his fight with the monster.
Genres: Horror Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-27
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Go! Anpanman: Nosshi the Dinosaur's Big Adventure
Overview: Anpanman dinosaur 'Nessie' adventure. Will Anpanmen really be able to save the land of dinosaurs by defeating Baikinman and Gorongora?
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-17
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Chibi Maruko-chan
Overview: Chibi Maruko chan is the nickname of a sweetly obnoxious 9-year-old girl. She tricks her grandfather, ponders for hours over how to spend her allowance, and hates sitting next to ugly boys. She talks, feels and lives just as real kids do. As the second term commences, Maruko and her classmates return to their small groups. Maruko’s group includes two naughty boys and Maruko is forced to be one of their subordinates. She seems to face a lot of pressure at school.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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Chibi Maruko-chan: My Favorite Song
Overview: Momoko's teacher asks the third grade to draw a picture based on their favorite song, to enter in a contest. She picks a song she's recently become fond of during music class, and is anxious to make a good drawing based on it. On her way to meet relatives in Shizuoka, Momoko meets Shoko Kimura, a university student who occasionally draws portraits and plans to participate in an art contest. Momoko and Shoko become close friends, and end up inspiring each other both in their own ways.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama Family Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Overview: Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering, full-length theatrical conclusion to Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries will be revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear to speak of it.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet
Overview: Tezuka Osamu crafts a love story in the time when humans are expanding into space at the end of the 21st century, employing an omnibus form similar to Bradbury's "Martian Chronicle." Leaving the earth after marriage, a woman is left behind in space when her husband suddenly dies of a cosmic disease. Her friends on the Earth head for space to save the woman who was once everyone's ideal lady. Tezuka Osamu emphasizes his concepts that "love can save the earth" and "only love can save humans."
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-24
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UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger
Overview: Alien invaders take over Great Mazinger who is at the entrance of a museum next to Mazinger Z as symbols of peace. Grendizer fights the evil invaders and Great Mazinger is recovered. When the Vegan empire dispatches a new general to oversee the takeover of Earth, he quickly manages to capture Koji Kabuto and, learning of Great Mazinger through interrogation, quickly commandeers it from a museum where it was kept as a symbol of peace. It is now up to Duke Fleed aboard Grendizer to stop humanity's former defender from becoming its destroyer.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-03-20
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Battlefield of the Space Saucers
Overview: Duke Freed is an alien who has escaped to Earth after his home planet was invaded by the armies of Great King Yarban. Five years have passed and now Yarban's daughter, Princess Teronna, is on a mission to find both Duke and his spaceship Grendizer by invading our planet with their fleet of flying saucers. The pilot movie of Grendizer. It is about Duke Fleed, a fugitive of the planet fleed, who was kicked out of his planet by the Armies of Vega. Fleed and the daughter of the king of Vega we in love before the war between their planets. The armies of Vega continue their fight with Duke Fleed.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-26
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The Adventure of Gamba and the Otter
Overview: When Chuta, a badly injured mouse, staggers off a ship in Tokyo Harbor, he bumps into out-of-towners Gamba and Bobo, who are at a party being given by Yoisho, the sailor-mouse. Chuta tells the local mice that he has escaped from Devil's Island, where Norio the evil ermine has crushed the mice with his reign of terror.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal
Overview: Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.
Genres: Animation War Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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Area 88 Act II: The Requirements of Wolves
Overview: Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.
Genres: Animation War Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage
Overview: Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.
Genres: Animation Action Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-15
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Crayon Shin-chan: Unkokusai's Ambition
Overview: A time traveler claims that bad guys are trying to change the past! Shin-chan is on the case, going back in time to defeat the evil Lord Unkokusai.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-05
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Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Great Mazinger: Decisive Battle! The Great Sea Monster
Overview: A giant sea monster known as Dragonsaurus has emerged from out of nowhere, terrorizing the depths of the oceans. Great Mazinger, Grendizer and the Getter Robo G team join forces to combat the new threat. But their task becomes more complicated when Dragonsaurus swallows up Boss Borot and makes its way towards Tokyo. Source: ANN
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-18
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Ajin Senshi
Overview: In the year 2200 an interstellar war is held where the weapons most frequently used are the psychic capacities. The hero, Zero, son of an earthling and an extraterrestrial, the prince and last survivor of a clan of magicians. He will fight against the army of the Manjidara empire, whose forces are such as its head ambition to control the whole universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-17
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Bremen 4: Angels in Hell
Overview: The story concerns four animals fighting to expel war from the earth. Though based on the "Band of Bremen (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten)", Tezuka Osamu's fans could easily associate the story with "The Amazing Three." The cat, dog, donkey, and chicken who transform into human beings with the power of spacemen and fight to save the earth are entirely reminiscent of the three characters in the "Amazing Three" who transform themselves into animals and devote all their energies to saving the earth.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Dragon's Heaven
Overview: A thousand years after the war that stopped the robot uprising, a human-allied mech awakens to find the battle rages on in Brazil. In the new world, he and his fresh-faced human operator launch a plan to confront his old archnemesis and bring the age-old conflict to an end.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-25
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The Golden Bird
Overview: "Kin no Tori" is an adaptation of the homonymous fairy tale "The Golden Bird" by Brothers Grimm. A golden apple is stolen from the King's garden. The King orders his three sons to guard the apples in turn and to find out who is the thief. When the youngest son, Hans, presents a feather that he got from the golden bird that stole the apple the king sends his three sons to bring this bird to him and so Hans' journey begins.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-14
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Lunn Flies into the Wind
Overview: Akira is a lonely middle school boy, ignored by his classmates and bullied by his teacher. He falls in love with the image of a girl on a coffee advertising poster and names her Lunn. Through his "friendship" with Lunn, he gradually finds the strength to pursue his own dreams.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-13
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There Goes Our Hero: After the Ball Game
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Overview: Sangokushi is set in the waning days of the Han dynasty. Central rule has disintegrated, and the land is controlled by multiple warlords. Liu Bei Xuande is a warrior who aspires to build a just state and to serve the people.
Genres: Action History War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes
Overview: The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)
Genres: Action History War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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Spooky Kitaro
Overview: Movie based on the 1985 TV anime with an original plot.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Horror Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Fairy King
Overview: Jack has moved to Hokkaido to get treatment for an illness, but he's lonely and unhappy. One night a man on a horse rides through his window to help him. For a reason he doesn't understand, Jack instantly knows the man's name and feels they've met somewhere before. The man, Cu Chulainn, tells Jack to open the moonlight shadow window, which leads him to Nymphidia, the world of Midsummer Night's Dream, whose inhabitants are waiting for a new Fairy King.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Be Forever Yamato
Overview: The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Gall Force: Eternal Story
Overview: Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-26
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Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War
Overview: The second movie based on the 1985 TV anime.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-15
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Gdleen
Overview: Ryu, a ladder-climbing salaryman exploring the galaxy on the company’s dime, crash-lands in the middle of a generational war over the seat of power on the planet Gdleen.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Attack No. 1
Overview: Kozue is a high school girl and an enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play on the Japanese national volleyball team. Over the course of the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step until the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs, the more she is confronted with the dark side of success: too-high expectations, self-conceit, and envy.
Genres: Animation Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Scoopers
Overview: It's the 22nd century and Shambhala city reporter Youko and her android boyfriend, bodyguard and cameraman Pete are hunting the enigmatic criminal Mr. X. Their search leads them to the Rainbow Tower, were Youko is taken hostage and Vito must battle to save her by destroying the program of the Tower's central computer to prevent X's escape.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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Sci-Fi West Saga Starzinger
Overview: In a sci-fi adaptation of the Chinese novel Journey to the West, Princess Aurora and her cyborg companions Kugo, Djorgo, and Hakka must travel to the planet of the Great King in order to restore the Galaxy Energy and return peace to the universe. On their journey, they encounter a planet decimated from attacks by space monsters, against whom the last survivors now seek vengeance.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-17
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There Goes Our Hero: The Heat of the Pennant Race
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-03
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Nine
Overview: Just before entering Seishuu High School, track star Katsuya Niimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa see a girl crying as the school loses a baseball game. The boys decide to join the team and improve it in order to make her smile. The girl turns out to be Yuri Nakao, daughter of the baseball coach, and they learn the baseball team will be shut down if it doesn't start winning. The series follows the three, as well as pitcher Eiji Kurahashi, as Niimi and Karasawa learn about baseball and what it means to be one of nine players on a team, as they work together through high school make it to Koushien.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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Licca the Movie: Licca-chan to Yamaneko Hoshi no Tabi
Overview: Based on the popular Licca doll in Japan. Licca meets a mysterious cat. Licca goes on vacation with her father to a town in the mountains that is the site of a festival of the stars.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-21
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Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
Overview: In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.
Genres: Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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Spooky Kitaro: Crash!! The Great Rising of Demons from Another Dimension
Overview: Kitaro's worries about a typhoon that came during the unseasonable winter turn out to be true. A typhoon known as a mysterious weather event that occurs once every 1000 years has landed in Tokyo. At that time, a monster emperor appears on TV and decides to support Japan...
Genres: Animation Family Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Spooky Kitaro: The Strongest Ghost Army! Landing in Japan!!
Overview: A monster appeared out of nowhere, transformed into a human, and began selling strange cloth. Becoming suspicious, the cat girl follows him and witnesses a horrifying scene deep in the mountains. Using a technique she had never seen before, she turned her colored paper into a piece of cloth...
Genres: Animation Horror Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-12
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Little Wansa
Overview: The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a husky puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much time looking for his mother. During his adventures on the street he meets friends, enemies and his beloved girlfriend. This OVA reunites the complete series aired on TV.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-21
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Saint Elmo - Apostle of Light
Overview: Inside Mercury, Japan builds a large-sized solar space power plant. The plant supports Earth with its large solar energy supply but suddenly there is an abnormality at the Saint Elmo plant. To pinpoint the problem, Earth sends several technicians to fix it.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Hello! Spank
Overview: Film sequel of "Hello! Spank" anime series
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-13
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Scarlet Demon
Overview: Anime adaptation of the same name horror manga by Suzumiya Wayu, serialized in Shogakuan's Weekly Shonen Sunday special issue.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-20
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