Hitoshi Takagi
Also Known As: 高木 均
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: February 26, 1925
Deathday: February 11, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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My Neighbor Totoro
Overview: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-16
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Tampopo
Overview: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-23
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Gemini
Overview: When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Rope and Skin
Overview: Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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Noble Lady Bound Vase
Overview: A cruel and sadistic landowner buys a daughter from a noble samurai family who had incurred a large debt. Months later, the landowner's sister comes to visit, and discovers that the new wife is secretly in love with another man. The wife suffers various humiliations for her indiscretions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-10
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Living Skeleton
Overview: A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-09
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Rope Hell
Overview: Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-24
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A Thousand and One Nights
Overview: Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9
Overview: A woman named Chieko Kuwano is hired as an assistant manager at a large corporate office in Japan. She’s smart, sexy, and willing to do almost anything for her sex-starved new boss but, since he’s married, his deviant behavior makes her uncomfortable. Fed up with the boss and his perverted ways, the ladies in the building band together to enact their own special kind of revenge… that is, after they have a lesbian three-way slumber party, of course!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Jeremy's Tree
Overview: Based on a children's picture book of the same name. A Christmas tale about a bird who was raised by tree after it was abandoned. The tree was then cut down for people in the city to use for Christmas celebrations. The bird desperately is trying to find its adoptive tree mother with the help of Jeremy, a penniless orphan, who heard her story so they go and search every tree being used in town. The search in the cold takes a toll on Jeremy until Santa Claus appears, but is it really him?
Genres: Animation Music TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-21
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The Best of a Summer
Overview: A female college student who grew up in a wealthy family, and a younger half-sister who doesn't even know who she is. She is a young and mature mother-in-law. A variety of dazzling, sexy, and slightly sentimental stories set under the scorching midsummer sun, centered around a mysterious and strange man who enters their lives. A unique experience unfolds in a seaside town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-07-13
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II
Overview: The second specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. Some scenes in the more pivotal episodes are cut as well. The compilation series was made by Hideaki Anno, who was said to have been dissatisfied with the final result of the TV show. The Nautilus Story was only released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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Uno Koichiro no Shûdôin Fuzoku Joshi-ryô
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-09
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Uno Koichiro no Hiraite Utsushite
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-29
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Uno Koichiro no nurete modaeru
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-05
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Throne of Blood
Overview: Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Getting Any?
Overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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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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Animal Treasure Island
Overview: A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority of the cast. By chance Jim comes upon a map of Treasure Island. He leaves the port accompanied by Glan, the rat and Bub, the baby on a strange looking boat of his own make to look for the island. Pirates soon find him and adventure ensues.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Sea Cat
Overview: A short animated film about an orphan kitten raised with love by a sea otter, whom had lost her own child. The film's message was to promote the abolishment of nuclear weapons using anthropomorphic animals.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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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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Human Target
Overview: At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Zombie Snake
Overview: A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Teacher Deer
Overview: Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. But her provocative attitude starts to worry the school's administration as she reveals vice and corruption that are running rampant in the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-18
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Image of a Bound Girl
Overview: A professor of erotic art sees his chance to practice what he teaches when by happenstance he meets a suicidal high school girl. Unsure at first how to bind and discipline his captive he is assisted by a bartender who shows him the finer details of bondage on his own slave. As he continues to subject his captive to more intense S&M training he risks both his academic position and his marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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A Colt Is My Passport
Overview: A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Lady Snowblood
Overview: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Goddamn
Overview: Car racing anime, based on the manga by Kaoru Shintani that serialised in Big Comic Superior from 1988 to 1990.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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Eleven Cats and an Albatross
Overview: Eleven naughty cats on the run from the neighborhood police chief hear that a giant fish is nearby for the taking. They go on a hazardous quest find it, learning that they must work as a team to reach their goal.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-15
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Megazone 23
Overview: A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-09
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Lupin the Third: Pilot Film
Overview: The first animated adaptation of the popular manga series, this pilot introduces the main characters of "Lupin the Third" with montages, presented through a short frame narrative illustrating a typical gang escape.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Fallen Angel Gang
Overview: With soft curves and deadly cunning a widow and her two daughters take revenge for the killing of her husband who was the leader of their gang. Based on the novel by Azusa Katsume.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!!
Overview: Recap of TV episodes 12 & 13
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass
Overview: While travelling on the Galaxy Express with Maetel, Tetsuro befriends Claire who was forced by her mother to exchange her organic body for crystal glass. When danger threatens Tetsuro, Claire tries to help him.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas
Overview: A remake of episode 22 of the TV version.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-03
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Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming
Overview: A Saiyan Space pod crash-lands on Earth out of which a wounded Saiyan crawls: Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan. The wounded Broly shouts out in frustration and turns into normal form. The place soon freezes, trapping him in it and he falls into a coma.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-12
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Yamataro Comes Back
Overview: After losing his parents, a young bear named Yamataro is chained as an attraction of a small kiosk near a train station. There he is encouraged by a C-62 train to runaway from the humans and become free.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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ビックリマン 無縁ゾーンの秘宝
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-09
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It's the Sea! Let's Set Sail! Niko Niko, Pun
Overview: A feature-length animation of the popular work "Niko Niko, Pun", which began broadcasting in the 1980s as a corner of NHK's educational program "Okaasan to Issho". The original "Niko Niko, Pun" was a live-action puppet show in costume, but in this anime version, the three main characters are voiced by the same voice actors, including Kaneta Kimotsuki. One day, Porori hears from her mother that she has a new baby brother. With the help of Jajamaru and Pikkoro, they set off on a boat to find their brother, but for some reason, the three of them end up on an island inhabited by pirates.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-04
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