Koichi Kitamura
Also Known As: 北村 弘一 , Hajimu Kimura, 木村 一, Kouichi Kitamura , Kôichi Kitamura
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: December 18, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 02, 2007
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Akira
Overview: A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express
Overview: Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Family Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-02
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Lupin the Third: Napoleon's Dictionary
Overview: The secret of the Lupin family treasure is out: its location is written inside a dictionary once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte himself! When the dictionary turns up as the prize for a historic motor car race, the notorious Lupin the Third and his criminal cadre race the world's superpowers to win - or steal - the Dictionary and unearth his grandfather's legacy of riches!
Genres: Animation Action Comedy TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-09
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Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love
Overview: Notorious thief Lupin the Third aims to steal the lost treasure of the Romanov royal family with his criminal associates along for the ride. The treasure is an immense quantity of gold hidden underground in the vaults of a mysterious Texas bank. But to obtain the gold, Lupin and his friends will have to face down both the Mafia and Rasputon, the telepathic descendant of the mad monk Rasputin. Lupin again eludes inspector Zenigata with the help of a mysterious blonde named Judy Scott, as Rasputon manipulates the world's leaders to put every obstacle in Lupin's path.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-01
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Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure
Overview: After robbing a Moscow casino right under Zenigata's nose, Lupin is given a job to return 6 treasures to their original areas for an old friend of his, so Lupin can receive an even better treasure to gain.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-01
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Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
Overview: Amsterdam, June 12, 1942. Anne celebrates her 13th birthday and begins her diary, which she calls Kitty. Hiding for two years from the German threat, the young girl writes about her idealistic views on the world, her ambitions, her fears and her first love, Peter.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Barefoot Gen 2
Overview: Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-14
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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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Macross Plus: The Movie
Overview: Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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The King of Minami 2
Overview: The second in a series of anime works depicting the activities of Yamikinya Manda Ginjiro, who is called "Minami no Ogre". Yanagida, a machine supplier who had lent money to Ginjiro, visited him. Yanagida had borrowed from Ginjiro the unpaid portion of the machine delivery fee to Tamura Iron Works, but Tamura Iron Works went bankrupt and was unable to repay. From Yanagida's story, Ginjiro senses that a professional sorter has moved behind the scenes, and finds out a man named Gennai, the sorter.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-05-27
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Ojamanga Yamada-kun
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Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-14
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Ultra Nyan 2: The Great Happy Operation
Overview: Ultra-Nyan's adventures continue. This time, he is tasked with finding the cause of the crows' sudden declaration of war upon the cats.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-14
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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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Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture
Overview: One hundred years after their deaths, six legendary holy warriors are reborn to seek justice against the former comrade who betrayed them into the hands of an evil god! The six warriors search the feudal province of Edo questing for the last Saint Soldier, Haohmaru, and their sworn nemesis Shirou Amakusa. Will the followers of the divine light triumph over the forces of darkness, or is history destined to repeat itself? Before their hundred-year journey has ended, six samurai will prove that the only thing stronger than their holy blades is the steel of their wills!
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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Touch 5: Cross Road
Overview: Trying to find his own game of baseball, and not that of his brothers, Tatsuya moves to America and pitches for a poor, struggling minor league baseball team called the Emeralds. Meanwhile, Minami is still in Japan, trying to find her own path after quitting gymnastics. Inspired by a photograph of her final performance, she becomes the photographers assistant.
Genres: Animation Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-09
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Barefoot Gen
Overview: A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Genres: Animation Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-21
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Lupin the Third: The Secret of Twilight Gemini
Overview: As Lupin's mentor Don Dolune lies on his deathbed, he hands the master thief a gift, the diamond named Twilight. Though it's only half the treasure — the other half of the Twilight can be found in Morocco. Lupin must contend with his on-again-off-again-partner Fujiko, his feelings for the mysterious Lara, and the relentless whip-wielding maniac Sadachiyo in order to bring Twilight back to its full glory.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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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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Ultra Nyan: Extraordinary Cat who Descended from the Starry Sky
Overview: Haruka finds a cat in an abandoned building and names it "Nyan". Little does she know that this cat is actually "Ultra-Nyan" who has come from outer space. Using his mysterious powers, Ultra-Nyan helps Haruka and her friends foil the plans of a couple of no-good catnappers.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-12
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Beaten by Black Rain
Overview: Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stand Akauma, a bar: Takeshi, who lost his entire family; Tomoko, a prostitute horribly burned in the bombing; her younger brother Junji, who scrabbles on the fringes of society; Eiko, a pregnant young woman whom he loves; and Yuri, another prostitute who is determined to secure a brighter future for her blind son.
Genres: History Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-12
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Download: Devil's Circuit
Overview: An exciting cyberpunk romp directed by Rintaro with veteran animator Kanada Yoshinori about a genius hacker and a gang of hot-rodders.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-18
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Lupin the Third: Pilot Film
Overview: The first animated adaptation of the popular manga series, this pilot introduces the main characters of "Lupin the Third" with montages, presented through a short frame narrative illustrating a typical gang escape.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter
Overview: It seems that Lum's grandfather made an agreement that should he have a daughter, she would be married to a traveling merchant that he met. Now, the merchant has come to collect due. Ataru is tricked into thinking that Lum wants to leave, and so, in a moment of anger, says he hates her. Arguments erupt, and Lum decides that she must know the truth of Atarus feelings. As for all the questions of importance for the Onis, a game of tag begins, one that Ataru can win simply by telling Lum I Love You. However, in the end his pride may end up dooming him. So begins the series of events that will at long last decide the future and fate of Ataru and Lum.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-01
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Like Father, Like Son
Overview: Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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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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Kimu no Juujika
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-21
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Female Prisoner Sigma
Overview: They took her identity. They took her freedom. Now, in a man-made labyrinth of concrete and steel, where terrified young women are stripped of their pasts and humanity, she has been reduced to the level of prey. Prey for the ancient evil that lurks inside the walls of this penitentiary; an invisible hunter that stalks the halls of the damned, feeding on the tortured souls within. Against this unnamable horror, the inmate known as Sigma must face a fate beyond her worst nightmares; something far more terrifying than anything the brutal guards and corrupt wardens could imagine. Because unknown to them, Sigma has come to this place on a mission of her own. There's something far worse than death inside this prison, and it's waiting for FEMALE PRISONER SIGMA.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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The Heroic Legend of Arslan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-17
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Sakura Wars: The Movie
Overview: Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that the only people with sufficient spirit are young women. After recruiting a team of youths from around the world, the Japanese government decides to keep them a secret by disguising them as a theater troupe, thus requiring them to spend as much time memorizing Shakespeare as they do on military training.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-22
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