Mikio Terashima
Also Known As: Mikio Terajima
Biography: Actor, voice actor, and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: September 04, 1931
Deathday: December 04, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Overview: After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-06
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Mobile Suit Gundam F91
Overview: U.C. 0123. After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation has begun to build new space colonies to house humanity's growing population. But a new force, the aristocratic Crossbone Vanguard, plans to seize the colonies of the newly constructed Frontier Side for itself. As their home becomes a battlefield, a handful of young civilians struggle to escape the conflict. To save his friends and family, the reluctant warrior Seabook Arno becomes the pilot of a new Gundam which bears the code name F91.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-16
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The Legend of Kentauros
Overview: The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race.
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-21
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Dirty Pair: Project Eden
Overview: Agerna is a planet rich in Vizorium, the one mineral necessary to space travel. When a series of mysterious attacks on mining operations has world leaders pointing fingers and pinning blame, 3WA naturally send in their top agents to investigate. But are the Lovely Angels up to the task of stopping a mad scientist bent on taking a long dormant alien race to its final evolutionary form? Throw in a thief after a bottle of WWII-vintage wine and it's a safe bet that nobody's safe. It's more chaos, more mayhem, and even more destruction than ever before as the Dirty Pair take on their wildest case yet!
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-28
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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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Outlanders
Overview: In the midst of a violent invasion of Earth by unknown alien forces, photo-journalist Wakatsuki Tetsuya comes across a scantily-clad alien woman, cutting a swath of death through the Terran ranks with her sword. After a chaotic struggle, Tetsuya is knocked unconscious, only to awaken aboard her starship. To his surprise, she turns out to be Kahm, the invaders' princess - and she has picked Tetsuya for a starring role in her upcoming wedding. As the groom....
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-16
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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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Ecstasy of Wickedness
Overview: Pinku directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Red Crime
Overview: Pinku directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-17
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Resume of Love Affairs
Overview: A young girl from a small parochial country village is raped and ravaged at the hands of local roughnecks, escapes to a new life in the big city of Tokyo, and finds a pretty similar fate awaiting her there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Abortion
Overview: A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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The Love Robots
Overview: In this bizarre world of distorted human pleasures, we have come to accept the most heinous crimes against mankind as just another example of the degeneration of our species. Even the most jaded individual could not forgive the creators of the Love Robots. Love Robots are beautiful young girls, abducted right off the street who, through a procedure that rivals anything the Marquis de Sade might have dreamt of, are turned into monsters, capable of killing a man or loving him on command.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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World Masterpiece Theater Complete Edition: Lassie
Overview: John is a cheerful and energetic young boy, who lives in a small coal-mining town in England. One day he finds a small dog lost in a flock of sheep. John takes him back home and names the puppy Lassie. Soon they become good friends, just like real siblings. Lassie is a very lovely and smart dog, so everyone in the town loves her very much. But their happy life doesn't last long. Suddenly a coal-mine owner closes his company because there is no more coal left in the coal mine. John goes to meet the coal-mine owner to request a further investigation. The owner accepts John's request, but in exchange for that, he takes Lassie to Scotland. Priscilla, the owner's granddaughter and also John's friend, cannot just stand by and let Lassie suffer in a cage. She opens the cage and sets Lassie free. Lassie sets out on a very long and hard journey from Scotland to her hometown.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-26
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Season of Betrayal
Overview: A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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GoShogun
Overview: A compilation movie containing episodes 20 and 17 from the GoShogun series plus additional scenes of background stories of the characters and fictional advertisements.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-24
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Black Narcissus of Lust
Overview: Pinku from 1967.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-21
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Secrets Behind the Wall
Overview: In a housing complex, a college prep student is spying on his neighbor, a former peace activist, who now leads an ordinary life as a housewife, having a secret affair with an ex-lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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Shinjuku Mad
Overview: A salesman is looking in the city of Tokyo for his lost son. But he becomes increasingly angry at the young and radical hippies, who are not the least helpful.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Perverse Relations
Overview: A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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Lead Tombstone
Overview: LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a pitchfork. Once grown, the boy continues his violent life as a hoodlum on the run, repaying an outlaw couple who have sheltered him by raping the wife, then, at his boss’s behest, murdering the husband. He’s also not above strangling a girl in her bathtub for kicks. The one spot of normalcy in his life is his shop girl girlfriend, an innocent who, once she discovers his other life, confronts his boss… (from OUTLAW MASTERS OF JAPANESE CINEMA by Chris D)
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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Birth Control Revolution
Overview: The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-21
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Sex Jack
Overview: A small gang of revolutionary students is hidden away by a small-time thief. While they are in hiding, everyone except the thief takes turns engaging in sexual activities with a girl who appears unhappy and perhaps unwilling, having had the misfortune of getting involved with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Naked Shadow
Overview: A drama depicting a girl's suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-09
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Blood Is Redder Than the Sun
Overview: A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on all adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-03
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Gatchaman: The Movie
Overview: Five young superhero ninja employed by the International Science Organization oppose an international terrorist organization of technologically advanced villains who are trying to control Earth's natural resources.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth
Overview: Akira is just another normal kid in modern-day Tokyo, until an old friend of his, Ryo, shows up and turns his world upside down. Akira learns that there is an upcoming war of demons on humanity and he has just been enlisted for a major tour of duty. But the only way to fight a demon is with their power, so Akira and Ryo risk a dangerous ceremony in an attempt to create humanity's only hope: the powerful Devilman.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Goku: Midnight Eye
Overview: Tokyo, 2014: a city balancing on the razor's edge between financial prosperity and seismic destruction. It is a place where the lights are bright, the stakes are high, and where the threat of imminent destruction breeds crime like a disease. But for Gokuu Furinji, ex-cop and super-powered private detective, crime is money...
Genres: Animation Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Angel Cop
Overview: In the late twentieth century, the Secret Security Force was formed to stop the actions of the communist terrorist group known as the Red May. Angel, a beautiful, yet cold woman, has recently joined the small anti-terrorist group. But her first mission will be a true test of skill, for members of the Red May are being found dead, murdered by gruesome methods. Who is causing these murders? And why? Written by Chuck "Dark-Side" Williamson
Genres: Thriller Animation Crime Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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The Matsukawa Incident
Overview: Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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Frenzy
Overview: To save her husband and child from drowning a woman seeks help in a village nearby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-14
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Winning Pitcher
Overview: Katsumi has been playing baseball for years, disguising herself as a boy. However, one day she is recognized and scouted by Hoshiyama, the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, who offers her a chance to become a professional player. After Katsumi joins the Dragons and befriends their new catcher Oikawa, her skills win over one suspicious mind after another, and she becomes a star pitcher leading the team to victories.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-24
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Dark Story of a Japanese Rapist
Overview: Study about a young disturbed man, who rapes and kills women and collects their bodies in a cave. A work based on the case of Yoshio Kodaira, a serial rape murder case shortly after the war.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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Payment for Adultery
Overview: A married woman has an affair. She soon must deal with a menacing voice on the phone...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Love Technique: Kamasutra
Overview: First Half: Kamasutra in three dimensions. Second Half: Report-movie-like short story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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