Taeko Nakanishi
Also Known As: 中西 妙子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 11, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Jungle Block
Overview: A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-15
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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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Break Down that Wall
Overview: A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: An animated version of the classic story of a young farm-girl who is transported to the magical land of Oz.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-06
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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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Heidi, Girl of the Alps
Overview: Heidi is five years old when her aunt Dete, who has raised Heidi since her parents' deaths four years earlier, takes the orphaned Heidi to live with her formidable grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-17
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Ringing Bell
Overview: Chirin is an innocent though adventurous young lamb whose carefree life on the farm comes to an abrupt end when a wolf murders his mother. Confused and angry, Chirin pursues the wolf into the mountains, seeking revenge. The laws of nature are brutal, however, and hatred alone won't be enough to avenge the loss of his mother. Only the strong survive in the wild, and obtaining that strength may change Chirin forever.
Genres: Animation Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-11
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Swan Lake
Overview: The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess ...
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-13
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Papa Mama Bye Bye
Overview: Dungaree-wearing teenage tomboy Kaori lives next door to the brothers Ko and Yasu. One day as Kaori is walking to school, a US jet crashes near the boys' house. Based on the real life 1977 Yokohama F-4 crash incident.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-07-23
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Locke the Superman
Overview: When the villainous Lady Kahn starts building an army of super-powerful espers, Colonel Ryu Yamaki is dispatched to recruit the most powerful superhuman in the known universe to help oppose her. Unfortunately, the esper known only as Locke has either never heard the "with great powers come great responsibilities" speech or he simply doesn't care, and he refuses to leave his peaceful civilian life herding sheep. However, when Lady Kahn makes a preemptive move to take Locke and Ryu out of the picture, the irritated superbeing quickly changes his mind. Now the bad guys are about to learn that starting a fight with someone with super powers that include teleportation, a nearly indestructible force field and space martial arts was a very big mistake!
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-11
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Summer with Kuro
Overview: Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants to keep the kitten, but her parents dismiss the idea. Nobuko eventually convinces them to let her keep it. She and her brother Makoto name the cat Kuro. Kuro quickly brings joy and laughter to the family. As World War II takes its toll on Japan, it becomes harder for Nobuko and her family to care for Kuro. One August morning, Kuro begins acting strangely...
Genres: Drama Animation History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-04
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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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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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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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Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness
Overview: Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.
Genres: Animation War Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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Yuki
Overview: Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-09
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Heidi in the Mountains
Overview: Heidi (1974) Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao Takahata A feature-length film Heidi in the Mountains, aka The Story of Heidi, was edited from the series by Zuiyo (which by then was a separate entity from Nippon Animation, which employed many of the TV series' animation staff) distributed in 1979. All cast were replaced excluding Heidi and the grandfather. This movie is also the only incarnation of the Heidi anime to have been released commercially in the United States in English (on home video in the 1980s). Isao Takahata remarked "Neither Hayao Miyazaki nor I are completely related to any shortening version" on this work.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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The Sensualist
Overview: A story of a man's erotic experiences since the age of 7, based on the 17th-century novel by Saikaku Ihara.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Tales of Little Women
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Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: ja
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