Akira Murayama
Also Known As: Akira Murakami
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: April 02, 1948
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Overview: As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Captain Tsubasa Movie 01: The Great Competition of Europe
Overview: Tsubasa and his comrades take on the "All-Europe Boy's Soccer Team", a league of players with skills that they have never seen before in previous matches. Will Team Japan come out on top against this diverse group of players?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-07-13
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Captain Tsubasa Movie 02: Danger! All Japan Junior Team
Overview: The return match between the All-Europe and All-Japan Junior teams comes home to Japan, but what sort of problems will occur with the game on Tsubasa's home turf?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Captain Tsubasa Movie 04: The Great World Competition!! The Junior World Cup
Overview: Japan and Europe goes continental! This time, they arrange a tournament with 4 teams: Japan, USA, "All-Europe", and "All-South America". South America is rising to the tops of the bracket with their hidden weapon, Carlos Santana, who manages to avoid the tricks of his international opponents. How will Team Japan counter this impressive player?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-11
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Captain Tsubasa Movie 03: Run Towards Tomorrow!
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Wrath of the Ninja: The Yotoden Movie
Overview: The year is 1580, and the unholy armies of Lord Nobunaga Oda spread across Japan, murdering all who oppose them. Narrowly escaping the slaughter of her clan, a young ninja steals into the shadows. She is the last of her kind, and the dagger she wields is one of three mystical blades that can end Lord Oda's rule. On her quest to overthrow the tyrant, she is joined by two other renegade ninja, possessors of the sacred sword and spear. Together, these shadow warriors must unite their weapons and skills to fulfill the Prophesy of the Enchanted Swords... or die trying.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-27
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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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Creamy Mami: Forever Once More
Overview: The Space Kittens Pozi and Nega gave little Yu a magic baton and for a year she possessed the power to transform into grown up idol singer Creamy Mami and use her magic for good. Sometimes her powers caused more problems than they solved, and though everything worked out well she finally returned the baton. Ever since, Mami has been absent from the music scene, but suddenly her return is announced in a blaze of publicity. Yu and her friends uncover a campaign by bad boy Shingo to deceive the singer's many fans.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-28
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Creamy Mami: Long Good-Bye
Overview: Shingo is planning the film "A Story of Two Worlds" starring Megumi. Yuu's transformation into Creamy Mami is happening without her wanting it. She is asked to star in the film too. But the magic doesn't last...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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Hell Target
Overview: A spaceship is lost near the forbidden planet of Inferno II. Some years later, a second ship with a crew of nine gets there and encounters a monster that rapidly makes mince meat of most of them. The sole survivor, Makuro Kitazato, must destroy the monster before it can surprise a third ship that is already en route.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-21
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Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods
Overview: In Siberia, Hyōga saves a man that is being attacked. Injured, the man manages only to say something about Asgard. Some days later, Saori, Seiya, Shiryū and Shun are wondering about Hyōga and decide to go to Asgard to investigate. At Valhalla, the Lord of Asgard, Dolbar, says he has not heard of any Hyōga and neither has his right hand, Loki. However, at all times Seiya and the others can feel an evil cosmo emanating from Loki and the other Odin Saints called God Warriors. Shiryū, in particular, notices a familiar cosmo coming from Midgard, a mysterious, masked God Warrior. Dolbar makes it clear that he is trying to take control of both Asgard and the Sanctuary, imprisoning Athena in a strange dimension within the giant statue of Odin. Midgard reveals himself as Hyōga and tries to kill Shiryū to prove himself to Dolbar. Thus, it is the task of the Bronze Saints to defeat Dolbar, Loki and the rest of the God Warriors, to save Athena and Hyōga.
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-03-12
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There Goes Our Hero
Overview: The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the next stage will involve hard work and cooperation.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-03
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There Goes Our Hero: After the Ball Game
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-13
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There Goes Our Hero: The Heat of the Pennant Race
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-03
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Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever
Overview: While performing in a student film, Ataru cuts down Tarozakura, a large, ancient cherry tree. Strange things begin to happen all across Tomobiki: a mountain appears out of nowhere, spring changes to winter, and Lum loses her powers, while those around her act as if she doesn't exist.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-25
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My Steady Is a Witch
Overview: Hisashi Seki lives alone in an old apartment building built in a dimensional warp . He's unaware of this until he wakes up to find a gorgeous nude girl, Asami, in his room. They fall in love on sight and decide to stay together in Hisashi's world, however the girl's appearance leads to all sorts of increasingly strange phenomenon. Then an accident shoots Hisashi into another dimension!
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Romance Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love
Overview: The third film finds Ataru transformed into a pink hippopotamus, which sends Lum chasing after the wicked magician responsible, with catastrophic results. With Lum gone, her friends decide that there is no reason to remain, and so Tomobiki slowly returns to normal. The highlight of the film is a high speed chase scene with an angry Lum flying after the mysterious Ruu through the city at night and into a hall of mirrors (and illusion ). Ataru's true feelings for Lum are probably more obvious in this film than any of the others.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese
Overview: Mendou recounts an old story that warns, “Don’t take pictures in front of the statue of Great-Grandfather’s Goat, or terrible things will happen!” When his father does just that, only Sakura and Onsen-mark the Teacher can ward off the horrifying consequences of an ancient family curse… or can they?
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-21
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Urusei Yatsura: Ryoko's September Tea Party
Overview: Ryoko throws a tea party for her friends. Flashbacks reveal the pasts of Ryoko's various guests.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-24
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Urusei Yatsura: Memorial Album
Overview: Featured special that uses scenes from the series stored on a personal satellite of the Los Mendo family.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-15
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Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter
Overview: It seems that Lum's grandfather made an agreement that should he have a daughter, she would be married to a traveling merchant that he met. Now, the merchant has come to collect due. Ataru is tricked into thinking that Lum wants to leave, and so, in a moment of anger, says he hates her. Arguments erupt, and Lum decides that she must know the truth of Atarus feelings. As for all the questions of importance for the Onis, a game of tag begins, one that Ataru can win simply by telling Lum I Love You. However, in the end his pride may end up dooming him. So begins the series of events that will at long last decide the future and fate of Ataru and Lum.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-01
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Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling
Overview: Lupika, an alien princess, is in love with a tofu seller. To make him love her too (at least, announce his love. He obviously fears the social taboo of a tofu vendor marrying a princess), she needs to get a love potion, which is in a certain temple. Legend has it that the only person that can obtain this love potion is the most lecherous man in the universe. That man turns out to be Ataru Moroboshi. Lupika kidnaps Ataru to make him get the potion, and Lum and her friends go out to search for Ataru.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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Midoriyama High School, Koshien Edition (Movie)
Overview: The story of students of a baseball team from Midoriyama High School, who will participate in the 66th National Championship Tournament of Senior High School Baseball in Japan.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-29
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Big Bird in Japan
Overview: While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.
Genres: Family TV Movie Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds
Overview: Nobita begins to wonder if Heaven exists in the clouds while studying about them at school. At first he is ridiculed but finally Doraemon decides to help him explore the idea.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-07
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Aim for the Ace!
Overview: High school freshman Hiromi joins the tennis club because of her admiration for Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki is a senior, who's the best tennis player on the team and also nicknamed "Ochōfujin", ("Madame Butterfly"), because of her elegance on the tennis court. However, the new coach, Jin Munakata, wants the inexperienced Hiromi to play in a forthcoming tournament.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-08
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