Masaru Ikeda
Also Known As: 池田胜, 池田 勝
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: September 27, 1942
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Gender: Male
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Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection
Overview: Secretly operating his cruiser as a casino at sea isn’t enough for mafia don Lukino Marcano. He’s also looking for the gold-laden boat wreckage worth the budget of a small country! Lupin sniffs out the plan to recover this long-lost treasure and brings along his partners Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko for the ride to crash Lukino’s party.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-03
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Open the Door
Overview: In modern day Tokyo, three university students, Negishi Miyako (Neko-chan), Saiki Haruka, and Yamagishi Keiichiro, have magical powers that make them feel like outcasts. They come together one night and are transported to another world. They open a massive door and Neko finds that she is the Princess Neryulla, who must defeat the evil Duran III to free her people.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Lupin the Third: Episode 0: First Contact
Overview: The stickup that started it all! Lupin III and Fujiko are both after an ancient artifact Jigen is supposed to protect, while Goemon happens to be searching for his clan’s lost treasure nearby. Of course, Inspector Zenigata isn’t far behind. This is the story of our heroes’ very first meeting!
Genres: Animation TV Movie Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-26
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Sin: The Movie
Overview: It is the near future, and the city of Freeport teeters on the verge of total collapse. The twin tides of rampant crime and ruinous graft face only one barrier: the elite strike force HARDCORPS. Led by Colonel John Blade, HARDCORPS is the last force for justice in the darkening city.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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Bakumatsu no Spasibo
Overview: Based on the real life events around Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin, a Russian admiral noted for his diplomatic missions to Japan and China, and the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855.
Genres: Animation History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-20
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Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia
Overview: The Lovely Angels are dispatched to the planet of Ookbar in search of a missing girl. Kei and Yuri have traced young Missinie to the forest of Nolandia, but their investigations have stalled thanks to the less than helpful Chief of Security. But Kei and Yuri never let a little bureaucracy stand in their way. It's the unicorns and UFOs, not to mention the rampaging killer robot, that are going to be the problem as the Dirty Pair tackle their toughest case yet.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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Children Who Don't Know War
Overview: A trio of high school students, Ichiro, Hiroshi, and Reiko, try to give a demonstration against the suspension , but they are ignored by the students and embark on an unreliable journey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-12
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Techno Police 21C
Overview: The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost control. The citizens are terrified... and no one can stop the madness. Even the Techno Police, a special anti-crime squad, find the situation hopeless until a wise cracking cop with an uncanny knack for out-guessing the criminals joins the force. When a powerful experiment tank is hijacked, the Techno Police and their newest recruit go to work. Equipped with an ultra-sonic car and crime-fighting Technoids, the rookie cop sets out on a death defying high-speed chase through the streets... trying to capture the crooks and trying to stay alive. But no one is aware of the awesome powers about to be unleashed.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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Cosmos Pink Shock
Overview: Micchi thrusts though space on her spacecraft Pink Shock, hoping to be reunited with her long lost lover.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-21
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Hokasanbon
Overview: Set in a single location, this action-comedy stylishly depicts how a mistake caused by an accidental prank causes a series of people to fall like dominoes. The film is shot in a way that makes the serious look funny, and the supposedly uncool look stick to the film. The sense of humour is reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino, but the ending, in which three stories that were misaligned like the misplaced buttons come together, shows the high quality of the film as a storyteller.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Little Polar Bear
Overview: Based on the beloved book, the polar bear cub Lars floats away on a patch of ice and ends up in Africa, where, with the help of his new friends, he finds a way back home to his papa at the North Pole.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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City Hunter: .357 Magnum
Overview: A beautiful pianist comes to Tokyo for a charity concert - and City Hunter is there. But music isn't his forte. He wants lessons in the language of love. Desperation is the word as bodies start dropping. A foreign dignitary is assassinated in cold blood. Secret agents scour the streets for a missing microchip. And diplomatic infighting swirls around the upcoming concert until Nina the pianist and her grandfather Klaus are kidnapped. A maelstrom of exploding grenades, the rumble of Falcon's jeep, and the tinkling of the ivories all set the stage for City Hunter: . 357 Magnum. The show must go on!
Genres: Animation Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-17
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Back to the Forest
Overview: Peter the fairy, who is head of Placid forest, loves to play with his animal friends. One day "Man" threatens to destroy their homes by cutting down the trees. They decide to peacefully protest but the humans won't listen. With their lives at stake, the animals and Peter carry out their final operation.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-02
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Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
Overview: One day, Mana Aida receives a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear this beside someday, a mysterious man named Marsh appears, and Mana is thrown back into the past. She was happy to see her grandmother she loved and her old dog Maro, but she then realizes that Alice and Rikka aren't there because memories have been altered. In order to save precious memories, the future, dreams and hope, Mana transforms into Cure Heart.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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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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Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops
Overview: Detective Kouichi Todome head of the elite Kerberos police squad escapes after the unit is marked for destruction by the government. Three years later, Inui, a member of the squad, is released from prison with one goal: to find his former master. But the trail to Todome is a twisted one, and when Inui finally finds Todome, he realizes that instead of following his own path, Todome was following the orders of another.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-23
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Zeno: Unlimited Love
Overview: Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Żebrowski, a Polish missionary in Japan. Brother Zenon was known for his charity work for victims of war and the poor in Japan.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-15
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Sakura Wars: The Movie
Overview: Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that the only people with sufficient spirit are young women. After recruiting a team of youths from around the world, the Japanese government decides to keep them a secret by disguising them as a theater troupe, thus requiring them to spend as much time memorizing Shakespeare as they do on military training.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-22
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Yakyukyo no uta
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Iria: Zeiram the Animation
Overview: A monster hunter goes after a beast that could be her brother.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-23
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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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Parasite Dolls
Overview: Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-22
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Overview: Sangokushi is set in the waning days of the Han dynasty. Central rule has disintegrated, and the land is controlled by multiple warlords. Liu Bei Xuande is a warrior who aspires to build a just state and to serve the people.
Genres: Action History War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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Domain of Murder
Overview: On the trail of a missing husband, private investigator Goro crosses paths with a deranged killer.
Genres: Mystery Animation Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-01
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes
Overview: The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)
Genres: Action History War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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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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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Overview: Sangokushi is set in the waning days of the Han dynasty. Central rule has disintegrated, and the land is controlled by multiple warlords. Liu Bei Xuande is a warrior who aspires to build a just state and to serve the people.
Genres: Action History War Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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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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Bagi: The Monster of Mighty Nature
Overview: Tezuka Osamu's tale of a genetically engineered pink American Mountain-lion named Bagi and the friendship she develops with Ryo, a lonesome bike gang member.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-19
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Carol
Overview: Living in London with her family, Carol is the daughter of a famous musician, Lionel Mudagolas. While he is currently having difficulties playing his cello, she occasionally starts to listen an unfamiliar voice calling her name. Wondering if her father's situation might be connected to the bad phase of her favorite band, Gable Screen, and the inexplicable silence of the Big Ben, Carol is suddenly transported to another world. There she finds out that she might be the girl predestined to fight Gigantica, a demon lord who recently brought chaos to this strange land.
Genres: Action Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-21
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WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3
Overview: Set in the year 2000, when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-30
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Shaolin vs. Vampire
Overview: Gordon Liu plays a stuntman named Daiyu, who is his town's sole vampire non-believer holdout. When his young daughter “adopts” a vampire kid, his viewpoint changes. Daiyu, with help from a female Japanese student, must defend his village against hopping vampires and an evil sorcerer who want their land.
Genres: Horror Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-23
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Sakura Wars: ~Su~Mi~Re~
Overview: For years the defence and safety of the Imperial city rested on the shoulders of Sumire Kanzaki of the Flower Troupe. But this, as with all things, must fade away. As the top star of the Imperial Operetta Company, Sumire was the power and the light from which her comrades drew their own strength and resolve. It was through her that the Flower Troupe found their courage... and through her that many happy memories were made. Now the curtain rises for one final performance as the star that once shined so brightly to grow faint. As the spotlight dims on one legend, another must come center stage.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Metropolis
Overview: Kenichi and his detective uncle, Shunsaku Ban, leave Japan to visit Metropolis, in search of the criminal, Dr. Laughton. However, when they finally find Dr. Laughton, Kenichi and Shunsaku find themselves seperated and plunged into the middle of a larger conspiracy. While Shunsaku searches for his nephew and explanations, Kenichi tries to protect Tima (a mysterious young girl), from Duke Red and his adopted son Rock, both of whom have very different reasons for wanting to find her.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-26
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity
Overview: Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-13
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
Overview: After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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Columbus no Daibouken
Overview: As he nears the New World, Christopher Columbus tells cabin boy Paco about his youthful hardships, the difficulties of convincing others of his vision, and the final victory when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor his trip. The sailors are doubtful, though Columbus is vindicated when they arrive on land, but it's not as the planned destination of Japan.
Genres: Animation History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-24
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The Heroic Legend of Arslan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-17
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