Shinji Ogawa
Also Known As: Haruhiko Ogawa, 小川治彦, 小川真司, おがわ しんじ
Biography: Shinji Ogawa was a Japanese voice actor and actor formerly affiliated with Office Osawa.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 19, 1941
Deathday: March 07, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Overview: A year has passed since Guts parted ways with the Band of the Hawks. Meanwhile, his former mercenary group is plotting a rescue mission to save an imprisoned Griffith.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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Black Magic M-66
Overview: A freelance reporter stumbles on a desperate military operation. An army chopper has crashed and its cargo has been activated. Now there are two killer androids running loose in the wilderness and have the daughter of their inventor as their target. Can the army stop them or can the reporter reach the little girl before the droids do?
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-28
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Racing Circuit Romance Twin
Overview: Hyoo Hino's birth was rocky. That, in itself, induced mental disorders to his mother, Kanae. Raised by his aunt right until reaching 17 years of age, he curses the day he came to this world and entertains suicidal thoughts. However, a girl, named Hibiki Uchida, became the beacon of his miserable life. She herself suffered from a tumultuous relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Kazuya, and even considered ending her life...
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-24
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Run, Melos!
Overview: The movie tells the story of Melos, a Greek country man that gets arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king. He gets three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage.
Genres: Animation History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-25
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Jazz Daimyo
Overview: Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Someone's Gaze
Overview: Aya Okamura has been working for two years and has begun living on her own for a job opportunity. With her mother working overseas as a doctor, her father is now living alone with the family's longtime pet cat Mii-san. One night, Aya returns from a long day at work, and as she rests on her bed, she reminiscences about the times the family had together. She remembers the sadness she felt when her mom went overseas, and the solace she felt when her father brought home Mii-san to give her comfort. Then, she receives a phone call.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-08
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Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Overview: An adolescent with the ability to control a looming war-golem becomes entangled in the Experts of Justice's fight against the infamous group Big Fire.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-22
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Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky
Overview: A terrorist group invades a laboratory containing a deadly bacteria and destroys the lab with an explosion. They later announce via the internet they have gained possession of the bacteria and declare themselves to be the Red Siamese Cats, a terrorist group that was eradicated a decade ago.
Genres: Animation Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-17
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Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea
Overview: The movie is set on a state-of-the art Aegis vessel with the full cooperation of Japan's real-life Ministry of Defense and Maritime Self-Defense Force. The corpse of a Self-Defense Force member has been found — minus the left arm — and a spy has infiltrated the Aegis vessel. The heroine Ran is put in jeopardy, and Conan is forced to stand up against the dangerous Spy "X."
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Patlabor: The Movie
Overview: A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-07-15
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Roujin Z
Overview: Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare to test the Z-001, a computerized hospital bed with robotic features that allegedly displays more efficiency and skills than any human nurse, but Haruko mistrusts a machine unable to consider human feelings.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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The Fir Trees Remain
Overview: The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the next day, his 4 attendants were killed one after another. Sakai Utanokamike, the Rozyu, is turned out to be involved in this scheme, and the aim is to destroy the Date family. Tsunamune's brother Munekatsu Date who is willing to take over the family doesn't know the real purpose of Utanokami and helps him. Munesuku Harada gets to know the whole picture of the incident and takes action alone for the sake of protecting the Date family, leaving his own family. His lonely fight continues for 10 years and he got in danger in Utanokamike's house, and...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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A Samurai’s Lie: Beloved Wife
Overview: Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (Ai Kanzaki). He was also a good swordsman who had taught swordsmanship in Akita a long time ago. He takes such good care of his wife that he is called a wife-loving man. He got involved in a conflict for succession because he pretended to become an officer to please her wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Shadow Hunters
Overview: The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-06
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GinRei Special OVA
Overview: In the first part, Ginrei's dress is stolen, only to be used to fool the enemy. The second part deals with a giant robot made exactly in her image. Finally, the third part concerns Tetsugyu and Ginrei investigating a lost research team in a "wild west" desert setting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: Unknown
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Blood Type: Blue
Overview: UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-23
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The Enemy's the Pirates!: The Cats' Banquet
Overview: Apulo (a cat-like space alien with the ability to lock a human's emotions) and Latell work for the Division of Space Piracy (or DSP for short). The two of them are extremely destructive in their solving of DSP cases. They are attempting to stop Youmei the space pirate from exploiting Computer Aided Thinking for his own nefarious plans.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-26
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Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle
Overview: There's only one way to stop a filthy evil scientist from destroying the world, and it's with a powerful hot spring located under Shin-chan's house!
Genres: Animation Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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Junod
Overview: Dr. Junod's work takes him from Ethiopia to Spain and across the European battlefields of World War II. He works to improve the treatment of prisoners of war and arranges prisoner exchanges. He establishes a method for prisoners and their families to write to each other. He secures routes for the delivery of relief supplies. As a humanitarian, Dr. Junod offers moral support to the weak. Seeing that, Mii and Yuko reflect on their own lives and problems.
Genres: History Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Ninja Gaiden
Overview: A long time ago, there was a war between the Evil God and the Dragon God. The war finally came to an end when a Dragon Ninja, who had the power of the Dragon God, sealed away the Evil God.Several thousand years later, in New York, a young ninja named Ryu is attacked by a couple of men in black suits wearing white masks. He notices that they are related to someone worshiping the same Evil God of the past and resolves to fight against them before the Evil God is unsealed again.
Genres: Animation Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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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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Ghost in the Shell
Overview: In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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Before The Leaves Fall
Overview: An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-23
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Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend
Overview: Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the "Choujin" (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth.
Genres: Animation Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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The Mighty Gin Rei
Overview: A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still A wild and crazy adventure involving Daisaku defecting to BF (here Blue Flower), lots of drag and the apparent drinking of a Shizuma drive.
Genres: Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-20
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Sugata Sanshiro
Overview: The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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The Empty Table
Overview: One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Although the parents of all the other perpetrators have either resigned from their professional positions or taken their own lives, Nobuyuki Kidoji tries to remain adamant that he was not responsible for his son's actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Willful Murder
Overview: The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Wars
Overview: The Kamen Rider Club discovers that the Dai-Zangyack fleet is moving towards Earth, led by Captain Marvelous as their Great Emperor. With many revived Super Sentai villains under his command, Captain Marvelous plans to obtain the Great Power of the Kamen Riders which is said to be "Ultimate Treasure in the Universe". Meanwhile, Tsukasa Kadoya becomes the Great Leader of Dai-Shocker once again and recruits past enemies of the Kamen Riders to take down the Super Sentai teams.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie
Overview: The legendary Space Sheriff Gavan is hired to capture the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. However, Gavan himself is captured by Ashurada, a Zangyack prison chief and descendant of his old enemy Don Horror, and jailed in the worst prison in the universe. The Gokaigers resolve to rescue the sheriff from the prison and join forces with him to fight Ashurada.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-21
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Film And Live The Final - A Mon Seul Desir
Overview: The final chapter of the event "Mobile Suit Gundam UC Film & Live" held at Pacifico Yokohama in July 2014 comes out on Blu-ray. Features performance of music used in "Mobile Suit Gundam UC" by Hiroyuki Sawano, reading of the scenario (written by Harutoshi Fukui) read by orginal voice cast, and more.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-05
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Promise in the Shadows
Overview: Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the first time in 35 years, the two drink and talk about their past, without revealing their current lifestyles, Matsuzou then recounts an odd story... The doomed reunion slowly steers the old bandits toward a life-changing event.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-04
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Chôjin densetsu 3: Kanketsu jigoku hen
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-10
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0
Overview: In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 counterpart. Among a numerous enhancements, for the film's 2.0 release, were a number of scenes were overhauled with 3D animation, visual improvements, and soundtrack rerecorded in 6.1 surround sound.
Genres: Action Animation Drama Crime Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-12
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