Hisako Kyoda
Also Known As: Hisako Kyôda, Kyôda Hisako, Hisako Kyōda, Kyōda Hisako, Kyoda Hisako, Naoko Kyooda, 京田 尚子, Hisako Kyouda, 京田尚子
Biography: Hisako Kyōda is a Japanese actress and voice actress. Some of her major voice roles include Genkai in Yu Yu Hakusho, Omusubiman in Soreike! Anpanman and Yukari Godai in Maison Ikkoku. Kyōda is affiliated with the talent agency Haikyō.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: February 22, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Overview: After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
Genres: Adventure Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-11
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Lupin the Third: The Secret of Twilight Gemini
Overview: As Lupin's mentor Don Dolune lies on his deathbed, he hands the master thief a gift, the diamond named Twilight. Though it's only half the treasure — the other half of the Twilight can be found in Morocco. Lupin must contend with his on-again-off-again-partner Fujiko, his feelings for the mysterious Lara, and the relentless whip-wielding maniac Sadachiyo in order to bring Twilight back to its full glory.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Weird Volunteers
Overview: A film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
Overview: Amsterdam, June 12, 1942. Anne celebrates her 13th birthday and begins her diary, which she calls Kitty. Hiding for two years from the German threat, the young girl writes about her idealistic views on the world, her ambitions, her fears and her first love, Peter.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Escaflowne: The Movie
Overview: Gaea is a mythical realm ruled by sword and sorcery and immersed in blood and violence. Thrust into a conflict she doesn't quite understand, Hitomi Kanzaki helps aid the young Prince Van as they embark upon a journey to fight the Black Dragon Clan. The battle over a legendary suit of dragon armor, Escaflowne, has begun.
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-24
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Red Death Match
Overview: The Gorenger try to retrieve rocket plans stolen by the Black Cross as Daita meets a mysterious girl he saves from them. This is a theatrical version of episode 36 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Volcano's Last Big Eruption
Overview: When Magman makes a blunder that finally makes him lose the Black Cross Furher's trust, he begins a rampage against EAGLE with Navarone Fortress, the Gorenger must finally stop them. It features the destruction of Volcano Mask General Magman and his Mobile Fortress Navarone, as well as the Gorenger Machines, and the first appearance of his successor Commander-in-Chief Golden Mask. This is a theatrical version of episode 54 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-19
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One Piece: Giant Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle
Overview: The Straw Hats visits an island, known as Mecha Island, where a fisherman sings an old folk song about a Golden Crown. Searching for that mysterious treasure, they find a hidden entrance into the island. The island's leader, Ratchet, impressed with the find and in search of the Golden Crown himself, invites the crew to join him in his search and the crew along with Ratchet and his henchmen enter the cave. As it turns out, the islands true form, is that of a giant turtle. Ratchet, who had known this all along, uses his mechanical castle to take control of the turtle, in order to use it, to take over the world. Now the Straw Hats have to stop not only Ratchet, but also the helpless turtle, from crashing into a nearby island.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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Memories
Overview: In this anime anthology, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in "Magnetic Rose"; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in "Stink Bomb"; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in "Cannon Fodder."
Genres: Fantasy Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-23
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Black Jack: Capital Transfer to Heian
Overview: World famous surgeon Black Jack meets a family with a strange predicament...their grandma is constantly demanding money. They struggle to deal with this beligerent elderly woman whose motives are shrouded in mystery. But when her medical problems come into play, Black Jack and his adoptive daughter-slash-assistant Pinoko are ready to operate!
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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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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One Piece Film: Strong World
Overview: 20 years after his escape from Impel Down, the legendary pirate Shiki, the Golden Lion, reappears causing massive upheaval to the Marines. During his long seclusion, he was able to come up with a scheme to bring the World Government to his knees. On his way to execute the plan, Shiki crosses paths with the Straw Hat Pirates and becomes so impressed with Nami's knowledge of meteorology that he abducts her to forcedly enlist her into his crew. Luffy and the gang end up on a strange land populated with monstrous beasts as they desperately search for Shiki and Nami.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Go! Anpanman: Nosshi the Dinosaur's Big Adventure
Overview: Anpanman dinosaur 'Nessie' adventure. Will Anpanmen really be able to save the land of dinosaurs by defeating Baikinman and Gorongora?
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-17
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Yu Yu Hakusho - Two Shots / All or Nothing
Overview: Two Shots adapts the extra chapter of the same name, while All or Nothing adapts Chapter 174 of the same name and a scene of the final chapter of the manga, which also matches with the conclusion of the final episode of the anime series. Two Shots tells the story of how Kurama and Hiei met, while All or Nothing covers a story of the main characters coming back together to solve a hostage crisis in the spirit world.
Genres: Animation Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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My Oni Girl
Overview: A shy teenage boy's inability to say no is tested when a headstrong girl drags him on a mystical journey amid summer snow to find her missing mom.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-24
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Little Witch Academia
Overview: Inspired by a magician named Shiny Chariot, the lively Akko Kagari enters the Little Witch Academy with the dream of one day becoming as cool as her idol.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
Overview: InuYasha is a half-demon who was trapped in the Legendary Tree and was set free by Kagome, a girl who traveled 500 years through time. This time, both of them will have to face Menomaru, a Chinese demon whose father, known as Hyoga, came 300 years ago to invade Japan, but was stopped by InuYasha's Father. InuYasha and Kagome, along with Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kaede and Myoga, will try to stop Menomaru in his becoming the most powerful demon ever.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Yu☆Gi☆Oh!
Overview: A shy duelist stumbles upon the legendary Red Eyes Black Dragon, with that card in his possession, he must learn to bring out his confidence to duel.
Genres: Adventure Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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Millennium Actress
Overview: Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-14
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Maison Ikkoku: The Final Chapter
Overview: Yagami comes to Maison Ikkoku, not knowing of Godai's and Kyoko's wedding, stating that she is now an adult, which she is, not knowing how to tell her, they panic, but she finds out in the end, and is heart broken.
Genres: Animation Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-06
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Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil
Overview: Everyone's favorite TV superhero Action Mask shows up in Kasukabe, and he's trying to get something from Shin-chan -- but what could it be?
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-24
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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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Denshi Sentai Denziman: The Movie
Overview: When a mother with an unexpected origin is held hostage by the Vader Clan, the Denziman must come to her rescue.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-12
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Go! Anpanman: Omusubiman
Overview: A spin-off work with Omusubiman as the main character, and it is the only work without Anpanman and Baikinman.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-14
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Karura Mau Movie
Overview: Shoko and Maiko Ougi are apparently two ordinary schoolgirls in pursuit of graduating and having fun. Shii-chan is the more serious while Mai-chan is more fun-loving. In reality, the two sisters are powerful exorcists from the Karura temple. Each wields half the power... Shii-chan can see the spirits, and Mai-chan can banish them. This is a spooky series with heavy emphasis on traditionally Japanese occult themes.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-08
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In This Corner of the World
Overview: Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
Genres: Drama Animation Romance War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie
Overview: When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-20
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Yu Yu Hakusho: Eizou Hakusho
Overview: Two recap specials that focus on Team Urameshi's matches in the Dark Tournament and four separate volumes focusing around one of the main characters; Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, or Kuwabara.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Adachi-ga Hara
Overview: A science-fiction fantasy based loosely on the classical Japanese Noh theatre drama Adachi-ga Hara about the demon Onibaba, of which lyrical extracts are quoted at intermission-like intervals throughout the film. The plot centres on a journey made by a space pilot named Yūkei who arrives at a planet upon which a murderous "witch" is said to reside.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-16
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Bremen 4: Angels in Hell
Overview: The story concerns four animals fighting to expel war from the earth. Though based on the "Band of Bremen (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten)", Tezuka Osamu's fans could easily associate the story with "The Amazing Three." The cat, dog, donkey, and chicken who transform into human beings with the power of spacemen and fight to save the earth are entirely reminiscent of the three characters in the "Amazing Three" who transform themselves into animals and devote all their energies to saving the earth.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Lunn Flies into the Wind
Overview: Akira is a lonely middle school boy, ignored by his classmates and bullied by his teacher. He falls in love with the image of a girl on a coffee advertising poster and names her Lunn. Through his "friendship" with Lunn, he gradually finds the strength to pursue his own dreams.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-13
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Riki-Oh 2: Child of Destruction
Overview: Riki finds himself in the town of Misaki, dotted with illegal nuclear power plants and run by a religious fanatic military organization called "God's Judgment." He is taken prisoner and made to fight in gladiatorial matches in a sprawling arena. He finds his brother, whose special powers have given him the name of "Savior," but his reunion with his resentful sibling turns sour rather quickly.
Genres: Action Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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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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Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report
Overview: When the Spirit World is flooded due to an unusual rainfall which overflows the River Sanzu (aka the River Styx), Lord Koenma senses an extremely powerful enemy. He entrusts Death God Botan, to deliver to Spirit Detective Yusuke, a mysterious item which must be protected from the invading enemy. However, by the time Botan finds Yusuke, she's too weak to explain the situation. Yusuke and his friends are left in the dark about the new enemy, but not for long. Soon it is a battle for Earth between mere Spirit Detectives and the almighty king of the Netherworld.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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それいけ!アンパンマン アンパンマンとたのしい仲間たち
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-24
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Overview: As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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