Yusaku Yara
Also Known As: Tetsu Kurobe, Яра Юсаку, Susumu Kawabe, Yuusaku Yara, Yusaku Yara, 屋良有作, 川部奖, 川部奨
Biography: Yuusaku Yara, born Susumu Kawabe, is a Japanese voice actor. He has also worked under the name Tetsu Kurobe.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: March 15, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Office Ladies Remodelling Lecture
Overview: Inspired by Drop Dead! Stupid Office Ladies, a column in Monthly Gendai magazine.
Genres: Comedy Romance Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-09
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Bucchigiri
Overview: To all his schoolmates, Jin comes across as a hot-headed class clown from typically barging in late and sleeping the whole way through to always responding to any situation with reckless stupidity. The fact that he used to be the charismatic leader of a legendary biker gang has turned into an urban legend; however, after starting a rivalry with the captain of the school baseball team, he and two former members, become their star players. But it's not long before his past catches up to him...
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Baoh: The Visitor
Overview: Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and making biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, escapes with a young girl, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. For BAOH is a parasite living in its host's brain, altering the host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. When Doress sends assassins after the boy and girl, BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving the boy acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH must fight an army of commandos and a psionic to get her back
Genres: Horror Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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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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Uncle Remodelling Course
Overview: An omnibus-style 11-part animation work for the theater, in which the members of the 800 OL Committee, representatives of OLs all over the country, summarize the realities of everyday men. Hundreds of OLs gathered by Chinami Shimizu, who worked at a computer-related company, observe the company's boss and other uncles while commuting and working. Classify it into genres such as commuting, tea, meetings, and adultery, and uncover the ecology of uncles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-24
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Locke the Superman: New World Command
Overview: Azalea has been residing on the Colony-Planet of Dinahl, and she can't recall anything about herself until she hears a voice calling her name. Then there is another voice summoning her to go to a park on top of a skyscraper. Once she arrives there, she meets up with other people who also have no recollection of who they are or what they were doing before arriving at this destination as instructed by the voice. All the people assembled there possess superhuman powers, such as Eno's psychic power, Umoth's x-ray vision, Neia's teleportation powers, Azalea's telepathy, and Locke's electrical wizardry. Who has summoned them, and what will the five super-psychics confront?
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-22
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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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Black Lion
Overview: The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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Vampire Wars
Overview: The rural American west is the setting for this OVA, in which a bizarre and brutal attack on a NASA base in Arizona attracts the attention of a French secret service agent, Monsieur Lassar, when a dead CIA agent is found floating on the Seine in Paris. Lassar is convinced that these two events are related, and sets out to prove it. His investigation leads him to film star Lamia Vindaw and a vampire cult that may be far more vicious and dangerous than its eccentric exterior makes it seem.
Genres: Animation Action Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-30
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Zorori the Naughty Hero: Super Adventure!
Overview: Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi, while out searching for treasure, come upon a town with a widespread illness. In order to make the secret medicine for it, they must set out on an adventure.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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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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Planzet
Overview: In 2047, an unknown, alien lifeform descends upon the Earth, destroying all the major cities in one fell swoop. The survivors unite and build a Diffusor to stop the Februus, the invaders the military would later codename the FOS, and a temporary peace is achieved. Jump forward to 2053, the present. A last, desperate counterattack is being mounted against the enemy. Hiroshi Akishima, soldier in the Planetary Defense Forces Alliance, would like nothing better than a shot at the aliens responsible for his father's death six years ago. However, the new offensive requires the Diffusor to be dropped, leaving the entire planet terribly vulnerable once more. Will humanity regain the stars or lose everything in the final, ultimate gamble?
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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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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Kirara
Overview: While heading towards her own wedding, Kirara Imai dies in a car accident. Deeply frustrated for being unable to accomplish her dreams beside Konpei Asai, she asks for the opportunity of being with him once again. Kirara is able to return, but she goes back eight years in time as a ghost. There she is able to meet Konpei and herself when they still weren't a couple.
Genres: Romance Comedy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-20
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Demon City Shinjuku
Overview: Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichiro's son, it falls to Kyoya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn't beat. Can Kyoya exceed his father's legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?
Genres: Action Fantasy Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Willful Idol
Overview: Two teenagers, Haruka and Natsuki, win a lottery and run off to Tokyo to enjoy life. There, they meet a third girl, Fumiko, and decide to form an idol group and break into show biz.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-25
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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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Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria
Overview: Second part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Yuria's perspective, spanning from her childhood, including the day she first met Kenshiro.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-23
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Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan
Overview: When a wealthy woman and her son die in a hunting accident, it's up to Conan Edogawa to solve the case. Meanwhile, Lupin the Third is after the Queen Crown, owned by the Vesparand royal family. When these two legendary characters meet, who will win the day?! Followed by “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie” (2013).
Genres: Animation Action Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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Dr. Slump: Arale's Surprise Bang
Overview: Arale and company arrive at a nice location for a picnic. They soon discover a beautiful stone with strange powers. Before they know it, a dangerous pirate and his mysterious ship invades their peace and steals the stone. Now it is up to them to retrieve the stone before it is used by evil hands.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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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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Shin Karate Jigokuhen
Overview: A returning veteran and karateka from WW2 starts working for the yakuza, looking for a man strong enough to kill him. After becoming a karate champion, he joins an Italian woman who is looking for revenge against the nazis who killed her family.
Genres: Animation Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-01
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Gall Force 3: Stardust War
Overview: The remaining forces of the Solnoid and the Paranoid races now head toward Sigma Narse, a forgotten star system with a dying red giant for their final confrontation. The crew of five Solnoids who survived the battle at the ninth star system are sent to meet Capt. Nebulart, head of Intelligence, for what appears to be the last hope for both races.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-02
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Overview: In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Rhea Gall Force
Overview: The last remaining human soldiers of a devastated Earth fight against the machines for one last chance for their species to escape and survive.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action Adventure War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-20
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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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Neo Tokyo
Overview: A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-15
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Tokyo Godfathers
Overview: On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Genres: Animation Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-05
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Ninja Scroll
Overview: Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-05
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings
Overview: Reinhard von Müsel, a poor nobleman's son, one day discovers that his sister, Annerose, has been sold to the royal family. To get her back he sets out to rise quickly through the military along with his friend Siegfried Kircheis.
Genres: Animation Action Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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The Weathering Continent
Overview: Three adventurers – a warrior, a priest, and a young woman – traverse a land devastated by centuries of environmental calamities searching only for a way to survive. In their journeys they stumble across first the remains of a band of desperate treasure-hunters, and then the treasure they were seeking: Azec Sistra, the legendary City of the Dead. Unfortunately, the bandits responsible for slaughtering the treasure-hunters have also found their way to the city, but more worrisome still are the guardians which protect Azec Sistra from those who would violate the spirits at rest there…
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-21
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Ultimate Teacher
Overview: At a run down school the "Ultimate Teacher" Ganpachi is sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent students for the real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi ruining the gang they got going so their boss, Hinako, fights back Ganpachi aided by her secret power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things get more interesting when we findout Ganpachi is the result of genetic experiments.
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-06
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Gall Force 2: Destruction
Overview: The war between Solnoids and Paranoids continues, but the conflict reaches a new height as both races complete their Planet Destroyers. This new technology wipes out several star systems leaving only the ninth star system undamaged. As both races head towards it, a Solnoid ship finds Lufy, an attacker cryogenically preserved inside an assault trooper among space debris. Reawakened, Lufy is invited to join a group of Solnoids who are set to complete the original secret mission of her former crew.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-22
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Phoenix: Yamato Chapter
Overview: The story of a young prince and young princess from opposing tribes, as they struggle to deal with their lives and the hardship brought on by their position in their respective families.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Wicked City
Overview: A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure another treaty. A radical group of demons from the Black World are out to assassinate the diplomat and prevent the treaty; only the bond that forms between the two cops can save the Earth from destruction.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-19
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Bats & Terry
Overview: A story of two mates, Pitcher and catcher on a pro-baseball team, devoted to their game, bikes, girls and having a good time. When they meet a girl who is still mourning the death of her boyfriend in a bike accident, they try to help - though her beauty means their motives may not be entirely altruistic!
Genres: Drama Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-14
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Wanna-Be's
Overview: A tag-team battle between the elegant girls of Dream Team and the heavy-face-painted women of Foxy Ladies. Naturally, the Dream Team gets the crap kicked out of them, but not before one of them makes one strong attempt at lifting the 250-pound Foxy lady over her head. The one`s to take their place are Eri and Miki of the Wanna-Be`s team. Miki and Eri are both just fun girls who want to have fun, but once they begin their new training with the mysterious Kidou Corporation, the same corporation that trained the Dream Team, they discover that there is something deeper behind their training.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Vampire Hunter D
Overview: In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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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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Daigo of Fire Company M
Overview: Daigo Asahina is Medaka Gumi #2's/Me Gumi's new rookie firefighter, and already he's done crazy things, like throwing people off of a rooftop to save them from an explosion. He had good intentions, but his deeds are starting to hurt the company's reputation. At Sengoku City's Concert Hall, a fire breaks, and the some Emergency Rescue Squad needs rescuing. Daigo will do all he can to keep his promise: Not to let anyone die on the job.
Genres: Drama Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-27
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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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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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Document: Fang of the Sun Dougram
Overview: In Space Century (SC) 152, the planet Deloyer, Earth's only colony, is home to a growing independence movement. The Fang of the Sun are a small team of guerillas fighting against Earth's occupation. To counter Earth's Combat Armors, they have a lone Combat Armor of their own: Dougram, a CA specially built for Deloyer's environment — and piloted by Crinn Cashim, the rebellious son of the leader of the Earth government on Deloyer. This compilation film version presents the events of the 75 episode anime series as a documentary, primarily focusing on the story's politics rather than the main characters. Originally screened with the short "Choro Q Dougram" and the Combat Mecha Xabungle compilation film Xabungle Graffiti.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-09
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Rokudenashi BLUES
Overview: Trouble finds Maeda, a good-for-nothing outcast with dreams of becoming a boxing champ, soon after enrolling at Teiken High School. His cavalier clumsiness has a way of attracting attention from gang leaders, school staff, and the precocious schoolgirl Chiaki. When a dangerous new gang leader threatens to upend order in the school, Maeda puts his training to work — along with every brain cell he can muster — to protect the balance of power.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-11
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The Demonic Beast Front
Overview: 13 scientists seek to tap genetic powers by creating a hybrid of man and beast. Years later, 13 of their children are embroiled in a battle to undo their handiwork, while Shinichi, the son of one of the scientists, teams up with Christian super-beings to save the world.
Genres: Horror Animation Action Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Karura Mau Movie
Overview: Shoko and Maiko Ougi are apparently two ordinary schoolgirls in pursuit of graduating and having fun. Shii-chan is the more serious while Mai-chan is more fun-loving. In reality, the two sisters are powerful exorcists from the Karura temple. Each wields half the power... Shii-chan can see the spirits, and Mai-chan can banish them. This is a spooky series with heavy emphasis on traditionally Japanese occult themes.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-08
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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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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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Crayon Shin-chan: A Storm-invoking Splendor! The Battle of the Warring States
Overview: Shin-chan somehow travels back in time, where he promptly involves himself in samurai wars and political intrigue, changing history left and right!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-20
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Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past
Overview: When an American scientist carrying a cure for the AIDS virus is kidnapped by an arms merchant, John Kyosuke is forced back from retirement. He accepts the challenge to regain pocession of the anti-serum. He finds out that some of the people he is after are closely related, which gives his conquest a whole new meaning.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Crayon Shin-chan: Invoke a Super Storm! The Hero of Kinpoko
Overview: A sinister force is invading the neighborhood, and Shinnosuke is the only one who notices -- until a kid named Mata appears to help him save the day.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-19
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Roots Search
Overview: When a research crew in deep space discovers the desolate ship "Green Planet" that warps into their area, they encounter Buzz, the commander and sole surivor of the ship. Being too incapacitated to make them aware of the situation of his ship, the research team will soon discover that they have found something far, far worse...
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-10
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I'm All Yours
Overview: Rokuro, a penniless student living in a run-down apartment, gets a surprise visit by the beautiful and quite mysterious Mamiya Yu. For some reason she has hopelessly fallen for this no-good pervert. As it turns out she is actually the daughter of a very wealthy Japanese family. Considering Rokuro's background, he cannot believe his luck... but not all is as it seems. This rich family seems to be a lot more perverted than even Rokuro could have imagined...
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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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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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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GoShogun: The Time Étranger
Overview: Forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics. Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-27
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Gall Force: Earth Chapter
Overview: After the completion of Operation Exodus,the Earth-based forces must survive long enough for the Mars re-inforcements. During this time, Sandy Newman and her squad face a challenge to their military training in the form of a quasi-religious group called Geo Chris which endeavours to make the Earth green once more. Unknown to them, the plans Mars have drawn up will kill the machines and the forces fighting against them.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy
Overview: Beautiful American Emily O'Hara offers the City Hunter (Ryo Saeba & Kaori Makimura) one million dollars to protect her from a man named Douglas. Ryo & Kaori take the job, but things are not quite what they seem. The real target just might be Ryo, but it's unclear who wants Saeba dead.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Charge!! Men's Private School
Overview: Otokojuku, a private school for juvenile delinquents that were previously expelled from normal schools. At this school, Japanese chivalry is taught through the feudal and military fundamentals. Similar to an action film, the classes are overwhelmed by violence. Only those who survive it become true men. (Animenfo)
Genres: Animation Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-23
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Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma
Overview: A terrible war has ravaged the land, and now, fuelled by the blood of numerous fallen warriors the Yoma, demons from hell, emerge once more. A skilled ninja seeks to end the bloodshed these demons inflict upon humanity, but to do this he must fight against his undead former best friend and fellow ninja who was killed in battle and has been resurrected to serve the Yoma.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-15
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Raining Fire
Overview: The year is 1945. Everything as usual in the Fukuoka city. Some places in Japan have already been scorched by the fire of war, but here it is relatively peaceful and calm. The school still working, and the boys play war in their spare time. Daichi and his friend are the commanders of rival squads. One day a newcomer appears in the class - Yoriko, a girl evacuated from Tokyo. Yoriko takes life very seriously, she has good reasons - her childhood ended after the loss of loved ones in the bombing. Children get to know each other and become friends. They, as the rest of the city, do not yet know that on June 19 their life will be divided into "before" and "after".
Genres: War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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Spooky Kitaro
Overview: Movie based on the 1985 TV anime.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Psycho Diver: Soul Siren
Overview: Yuki Kano has it all: fame, wealth, the world at her feet. There's also something very wrong with her... from time to time, she's totally unable to sing (which, for a pop star, is not good). Enter Bosujima, a "psycho diver" with the capability to enter people's heads and straighten out what's wrong with them. Well, most of the time, anyway.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-21
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Sangokushi: The Yangtze Is Burning!
Overview: Covering roughly 13 years, from Cao Cao's victory over Lu Bu in 198 CE, through the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 CE, and the aftermath up until 211 BCE. As other players are swept from the board, the story focuses on Liu Bei and his increasingly desperate attempts to prevent Cao Cao from seizing all of China. The turning point is Liu Bei's recruitment of the best strategic mind of that generation, Zhuge Kongming, the Crouching Dragon.
Genres: Animation War History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-20
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Meisou-Ou Border
Overview: Featuring a modern-day odd couple, the naive virgin Kubota and the handsome charmer Hachisuka, who meet up by accident in a Middle Eastern desert and return to Japan to hustle their way through life. They start by getting involved in shady TV dealings, where they get jobs making fake documentaries.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Crystal Triangle: The Forbidden Revelation
Overview: In times of olde, God gave mankind the ten commandments, and a message that has been lost to the centuries. In the present, Koichiro Kamishiro is a modern day Indiana Jones who scours (and often destroys) ruins for hints of the past, until one day he runs across a box filled with two crystal triangles. Having inadvertently run across the key to God's lost message, Kamishiro suddenly has a lot to deal with including assassination attempts by the KGB and the CIA, aliens hell-bent on destroying the Earth and the love of several women!
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-22
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Crying Freeman 4: A Taste of Revenge
Overview: Naitai, the evil head of the Great Bear God religion, hatches a plot to destroy the 108 Dragons. His henchman, Oshu Togoku, the world wrestling champion, squeezes Ron Tayan unconscious in a match; the ambulance taking Ron to hospital is actually driven by Kimie, one of Ron's old enemies. She takes him to Naitai's stronghold where he has prepared a clone of Ron whom he intends to send, like a Trojan horse, onto the yacht of the 108 Dragons. Can Ron foil the plot? Will Fu recognize the clone or be fooled? What of Oshu Togoku, can anyone defeat him? And who, or what, can stand up to Naitai's sorcery?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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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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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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Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars
Overview: Nobita helps Doraemon to create a space movie. After Dekisugi fails to help them, the duo rope in Shizuka, who prefers to make a film about dolls.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-16
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Phoenix: Karma Chapter
Overview: The story of two men - sculptor genius Akanemaru, and former bandit Gao. Discover how the lives of the two men cross repeatedly throughout their lives, how they struggle with their own fate, and how they are forced to compete with each other for a great honour, when karma is the only prize.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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M.D. Geist
Overview: Geist (the main character) is MD-02, a Most Dangerous Soldier, genetically engineered to function as a killing machine, but every one of the MDS units went homicidally insane. As a result Geist was placed in suspended animation in a stasis pod orbiting the planet Jerra until it crashed several years later, awakening him and bringing him into another war on the planet.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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Bonobono
Overview: The first theatrical release, titled Bonobono, opened in theaters on 1993-11-13. The film has since been broadcast on domestic television in Japan, including on broadcast satellite channels such as NHK BS-2. The film has been released on VHS and DVD in Japan, including in a "no cut" edition.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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Hisashi Eguchi's Kotobuki Goro Show
Overview: Based on the gag manga by Hisashi Eguchi. Originally released as a feature part of Studio Pierrot's video magazine show Anime V Comic Rentaman (アニメ・V・コミック レンタマン) along with Abashiri Ikka, Yumemakura Baku Twilight Gekijou and Akai Hayate.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-21
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Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
Overview: Dr. Raichi is one of the only survivors of the Tuffles, a race that once lived on Planet Plant before the coming of the Saiyans. The Saiyans not only massacred the entire Tuffle race, but also stole their technology and conquered the planet, renaming it Planet Vegeta in honor of their king. Raichi managed to escape with a capsule and found refuge on the Dark Planet, a world at the end of the universe. His only wish is to eradicate the last remaining Saiyans.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Hisashi Eguchi's It Will All Work Out!
Overview: Adapted from the manga of the same name by Hisashi Eguchi, and directed by Minoru Kawasaki and Rintaro, this is a series of random skits featuring anime, live action, and puppet show segments, exploring love, sex, death and many other sometimes controversial subjects.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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What's Michael? 2
Overview: Michael the tabby cat returns for another series of vignettes. The sketches this time include a send-up of The Fugitive — Richard Kimble is now a veterinarian on the lam. Despite the danger, he must intervene whenever he sees a cat (always Michael) suffering; after treating the patient, he plays a trick on the cat and runs away. Another sketch draws parallels between wandering husbands and wandering house cats, who seem to have similar proclivities. Two more point out what happens when a cat's instincts run up against the requirements of baseball or pro wrestling.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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The Legend of Watt Poe
Overview: The legend of Watt Poe, a mysterious whale said to give happiness, in a world destroyed many years ago by a nuclear war
Genres: Animation Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Transformers: Zone
Overview: The mysterious three-faced insectoid being, Violenjiger dispatches the nine "Great Decepticon Generals" to acquire "Zone Energy", destroying the planet Feminia to obtain the world's store, and search for the powerful Zodiac.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-21
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Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer
Overview: Emu Hino, a 29-year-old virgin, witnesses a mob hit and fears that the killer will now find her and kill her. Indeed, he sets out to do so; he's Yo Hinomura, a talented potter and artist who's been conscripted against his will to be the prime hitman for the 108 Dragons, a gang within the Chinese Mafia, who are determined to push aside Tokyo's local crime lords. He breaks into her house, and she asks that he make love to her before he kills her; she connects to his inner self, and he becomes her protector. Now he must defend her against the local crime gang, who have connections with corrupt Tokyo police. Will Yo and Emu make it out alive, and will the 108 Dragons triumph?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Tale of the Earth
Overview: A youngster, Wil had a dissatisfaction to the society which the computer controls the total life of a person. One day he catches a strange telepathy from outer space.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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Crayon Shin-chan: The Hidden Treasure of the Buri Buri Kingdom
Overview: The Noharas win a vacation to the Kingdom of Buri Buri -- but the whole thing was just a clever ploy by an evil organization to kidnap Shin-chan!
Genres: Comedy Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-23
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A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose
Overview: This is a fantasy story about a sword and the magic of a girl warrior, Emiya, in a fictitious world. A strong country, Guroman, attacks and overtakes the country of Kukurit, though the particulars of when and where this happens are not given. As a means of keeping the peace, the two countries exchange their third prince and princess, respectively. Prime Rose, the third princess of Guroman, is placed in the custody of a noble family of Kukurit under the name of Emiya.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-21
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The Green Cat
Overview: Some time ago, Shunsaku Ban witnessed his friend’s murder during a random robbery attempt, and decided to become a guardian for the man’s infant son, Yuno. The child instantly bonded with a mysterious green cat that was carried by the gang, but Shunsaku was convinced that there’s something nefarious about the feline. Now, in the present, his long lost child surfaces in the news as a rich and powerful man who’s having the best luck at the casinos - and somehow, the green cat is still alive and at his side. Determined to save Yuno from the clutches of this evil creature, Shunsaku begins to investigate the truth of what’s really going on...
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Birth: A War of Two Worlds
Overview: Aqualoid was a prosperous planet, but an attack from a mysterious life force, the Inorganics, transforms it into a post-apocalyptic shell of its former self. When Nam finds a mysterious sword, he is suddenly the object of a planet-wide chase. With the Inorganics closing in, will Nam and his friends discover the secret of the sword and save their world? Or will they destroy Aqualoid in favor of a new Birth?
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug
Overview: A Super Namekian named Slug comes to invade Earth. But the Z Warriors do their best to stop Slug and his gang.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-19
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New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning
Overview: The Kimagure Orange Road series centers on a teenage romantic triangle: Hikaru and Madoka were best friends until they fell for Kyosuke, an understated hero with psychic powers. In 1991, the 19-year-old Kyosuke is struck by car and propelled three years into the future, where he tries to understand the changes that have taken place in his world. Madoka and Hikaru have grown up to become a promising songwriter and a student of drama and dance, respectively; the older Kyosuke is a student-photographer on assignment in Bosnia. The problem of two Kyosukes coexisting is played for laughs, including a sequence where the 22-year-old Kyosuke counsels his younger self. The filmmakers expect the viewer to know the characters from the OAVs, although designs have been changed. The result is a Pax-style romantic fantasy, rather than a sci-fi adventure.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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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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Horror News
Overview: For reasons unknown to him, Rei receives the Kyoufu Shinbun every morning, a newspaper which foresees deaths and catastrophes... Based on Tsunoda Jirou's classic horror manga "Kyoufu Shinbun", serialized in Weekly Shounen Champion.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-21
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My Father's Dragon
Overview: Elmer is told by a traveling cat about a baby dragon who is being held captive and mistreated on the scary Wild Island. Elmer decides to investigate and battles tigers, crocodiles and gorillas in order to rescue the little dragon.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-05
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Overview: D, a legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman who has seemingly been abducted by vampire nobleman Meier Link.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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The Order to Stop Construction
Overview: A salary man is sent by his boss to go to the jungle to stop a construction job.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-09-20
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Fist of the North Star
Overview: After a nuclear holocaust tears the world apart, mankind is forced to the harshness of not only the oppression of others who are much more powerful, but the dead earth which seems to be getting worse with every passing moment. But a savior has risen from the ashes, a man who will defeat those who would torment the weak and make the world a livable place once more. A man named Kenshiro...
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-08
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