Yoku Shioya
Also Known As: 塩屋 翼 , しおや よく, Tsubasa Shioya, 盐屋翼
Biography: Yoku Shioya (塩屋 翼, Shioya Yoku, June 24, 1958) is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and sound director. He was born in Kagoshima prefecture, but grew up in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture from the age of five. His real name is Tsubasa Shioya (written with the same kanji). His older brother is voice actor Kōzō Shioya. He belongs to Pro-Fit. He made his debut as a child actor when he was eight years old, and has been active as a voice actor since he was 14 years old, debuting in Umi no Triton (1972). He has done some voice directing in such anime as Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. Since then, he has been active as a sound director in omnibus promotion, and is currently working on numerous works as a sound director for Sound Wing.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kagoshima, Japan
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Perfect Blue
Overview: Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.
Genres: Animation Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-28
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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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Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Overview: As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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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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Mobile Suit Gundam I
Overview: In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has sparked a war.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-14
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Space Runaway Ideon: Contact
Overview: A movie recap of the Space Runaway Ideon TV Series. Humanity's pursuit of knowledge leads them to the planet Solo, where they find mysterious remains of a long dead alien civilization, including the 3 part super robot 'Ideon', and a powerful warship. Using these, the Earthlings sent to investigate the ruins defend themselves in their constant conflicts against powerful aliens called the Buff Clan, who are in pursuit of 'Id', the mysterious energy that powers the Ideon.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-10
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Seriously!
Overview: A theatrical release based on Ayumi Tachihara's comic of the same name. The original is a chivalrous comic that gained popularity in "Weekly Shonen Champion" published by Akita Shoten, and has been serialized for a long time. The main character is Shirogane Maji, a young yakuza member of the Nagisa-gumi. In the heartless world of the yakuza, it depicts a serious way of life that sticks to duty and humanity. Seriously, who will eventually raise his position in the group, he will be involved in a huge conflict.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-03
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Barom-1: The Movie
Overview: Two children merge into the superhero Barom-1 to fight the evil Dolge. Theatrical version of episode 14 of the Barom-1 TV series
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-16
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Goldfish Warning! The Movie
Overview: A super-short fast paced theatrical animation about Wapiko and friends.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-25
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Samurai Gold
Overview: This science-fiction anime was inspired somewhat by the life of Kinshiro Toyama (1793-1855), who was first popularized in the 1893 kabuki play "Toyama no Kinsan."
Genres: Animation Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
Overview: 16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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Hippo Director's Zoo Diary
Overview: Aging zoo keeper Nishiyama Toshio acquires two young trainees: short-tempered former chef Takeshi Ishizawa and gentle vet Ichiro Hasegawa. Both are surprised by the difficulties they face in a deceptively easy job but persevere through troubles such as an escaped pelican, a dying camel, and the birth of a hippo.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-23
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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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Ganbare! Bokura no Hit and Run
Overview: Inaba Junior High School's baseball team has been defeated miserably since the senior members left. Because of their poor results, the players are suspended from games and are almost forced to break up. Ironically, however, this hardship makes them band tighter together and intensifies their desire to play. They practice hard in the hope of regaining the respect of the other students and teachers. Soon, their will-power leads them to unbelievable victories. This story portrays the boys' dreams and friendship through baseball.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-18
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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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Yokohama Meibutsu Otoko Katayama Gumi 2
Overview: The city of Yokohama has become a lawless district for biker gangs. One particular gang, the "Crazy Babies", has a 17-year-old leader called Hiromi Katayama that is famous throughout the entire Kanagawa alliance as being a strong fighter with a devout sense of morality. However, when a young rookie by the name of Toshi Ikeda wants in, he swears to Katayama that he wi...
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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Call of the Wild: Howl, Buck
Overview: Buck is a half German Shepard half Saint Bernard whose life is peaceful and happy living with the Millers in California. However, one day he is tricked and sold off. He ends up in the snowy North where he has become a sled dog during the Gold Rush. His story takes many twists and turns and he has to fight for his own survival.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-03
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Laughing Target
Overview: Things couldn't have seemed better for Shiga Yuzuru, your average teenage high-schooler. The captain of the school archery team, he's going steady with teammate and classmate Satomi. He had almost forgotten that he had been betrothed to his cousin, Shiga Azusa, when he was only 6... but all this changes when his aunt dies a peculiar and unnatural death. Now arriving to claim what she feels is rightfully hers, only Satomi stands in Azusa's way... and with the mysterious and frightening powers that Azusa brings, Satomi won't stand in her way for long!
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-21
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Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Overview: Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-10
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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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Triton of the Sea
Overview: 5,000 years ago, the Triton Family was living peacefully in Atlantis until the Poseidon Family destroyed them all. Triton, of the Triton Family line, embarks on an adventurous life in the sea fighting the Poseidon Family.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
Overview: The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Science Fiction Romance Family Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-21
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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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Yokohama Meibutsu Otoko Katayama Gumi!
Overview: When a number of biker gangs ranging from small to large started to appear in Yokohama, Hiromi Katayama united them at the risk of his own life. Set in the present, this OAV tells the story of Toshi Ikeda, a young rookie who returns to Yokohama to join Katayama's group. There, he will encounter an old friend and things will turn violent when the yakuza gang Mad Emperor attacks them.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-25
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Transformers: Scramble City
Overview: Taking place after the Second Season of Transformers, Scramble City is a story in which the Cybertrons have built a secret lab hidden inside a mountain to build a new super robot, Metroplex to be a mobile base for them. As Ultra Magnus prepares it the Destrons find out its location and attack it. The Cybertron and Destron teams duke it out over the mountain then Metroplex comes out and beats all the Destrons but then out of the water comes Typticon! Can Metroplex defeat Trypticon???
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Toward the Terra
Overview: A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Ten Little Gall Force
Overview: A super deformed parody which depicts the "making of " Eternal Story and Destruction. A very humorous behind-the-scenes look (if "Gall Force" were a live-action series instead of being animated).
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-03
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Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked
Overview: The epic conclusion to the Ideon saga, featuring what was meant to be the final 5 episodes of the TV series. The Solo Ship and its crew continue their intense battle with the Buff Clan leading to a final battle that will determine the fate of all life in the universe. This movie was the second part of a double feature along with "The Ideon: A Contact".
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-10
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Little Women
Overview: A TV special based on the novel, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. It covers a year in the lives of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as their father is away fighting in the American Civil War.
Genres: Animation Drama TV Movie Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-03
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The Door Into Summer
Overview: A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Inferious Interplanetary War Chronicle - Condition Green
Overview: Keith, George, Edward, Yang and Shaw are Platoon #801, the five-man team formed to protect their homeworld in the Inferious galaxy from alien invasion. Gazaria's evil emperor Vince conquers the neighbor worlds of Kal and Granad, and suddenly only Platoon #801, also known as Condition Green, stands between him and the conquest of Emerald Earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-29
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Delinquent in Drag
Overview: Does being the only guy in an all girl school sound like paradise? It might be, if the girls knew you were a guy, but to stay in school teenage pervert Banji can't let can't let anyone find out his chromosomes don't match. Banji's status conscious parents want him to go to a good school, but not enough to spend the money on a good co-ed school. Now, in addition to studying math and science, Banji has to learn how to put on a bra and makeup. His life has become a living hell. Not only is he at the bottom of the social pecking order, he must also got to conceal his inner-masculinity from the pretty classmate girl who's stolen his heart while avoiding the female bullies who threaten to expose his less-than-feminine charms in the locker room.
Genres: Animation Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - The Castle of Love
Overview: An attractive owner of a love hotel falls in love with her handsome manager.
Genres: Animation Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-23
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Slam Dunk 2: National Tournement
Overview: Set during the Inter High Championships, Shohoku take on Tsukubu, one of this year's dark horses. It's a clash of acquaintances as Anzai will face his former student which is now the coach of Tsukubu, while Akagi & Kogure meet Godai their former classmate and Tsukubu's captain. Finally Sakuragi is irked by the presence of Nango, Tsukubu's center, who vies for Haruko's attention.
Genres: Drama Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-09
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