Ichiro Nagai
Also Known As: Ichirou Nagai, 永井 一郎, Ichirô Nagai , Nagai Ichirou, Нагай Итиро, 永井一郎
Biography: Ichiro Nagai (永井 一郎 Nagai Ichirō, May 10, 1931 – January 27, 2014) was a Japanese voice actor from Ikeda, Osaka. He was previously affiliated by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, and was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of his death. On January 27, 2014, while recording narration for a program in Hiroshima, Nagai suffered a bout of myocardial infarction and was found by a hotel employee. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead; Nagai was 82 years old at the time of his death.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Birthday: May 10, 1931
Deathday: January 27, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Castle in the Sky
Overview: A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation Action Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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Wicked City
Overview: A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure another treaty. A radical group of demons from the Black World are out to assassinate the diplomat and prevent the treaty; only the bond that forms between the two cops can save the Earth from destruction.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-19
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Lupin the Third: The Secret Page of Marco Polo
Overview: Researchers unearth a long-lost page of "The Travels of Marco Polo" and discover it's a clue to a lost treasure! Lupin appears to swipe the tablet, but he leaves empty-handed... and as a murder suspect! He shrugs off being framed for the death of an archaeology professor just enough to go treasure-hunting. Tailed by both a weapons dealer and ICPO Inspector Zenigata, Lupin must rely on his gunslinging partner Jigen and the professor's granddaughter Lisa to stay two steps ahead. Meanwhile, the swordsman Goemon rethinks his devotion to the blade and finds romance deep in the mountains. Two tales collide in a worldwide adventure packed with history and laughs!
Genres: Animation Action Comedy Adventure TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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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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I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
Overview: Mr. Matsuzawa is a novelist who lives in Chiba Prefecture. Only his daughter Kazuko knows that the family dog, Don Matsugorou, can talk. Don is wounded in a fight with the neighbors' dog, King, a nouveau-riche mongrel with ideas above his station. At the vet, however, he falls in love with a little patchwork puppy called Chotaro.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-09
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Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure
Overview: Master Roshi has succeeded at the one mission he valued most: to train Goku and Krillin to become ultimate fighters. So, he arranges for them to test their mettle at a competition hosted by Emperor Chiaotzu. Not everyone's playing by the rules, however, as a member of the ruler's household schemes to use the Dragonballs to extort money and power from the royal.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-09
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Vampire Hunter D
Overview: In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Engine Sentai Go-Onger vs. Gekiranger
Overview: The story begins when Geki Red battles Nunchaku Banki after returning from his trip around the world for Natsume's birthday, with Geki Yellow and Geki Blue arriving to provide backup. After sending the Gekirangers into another dimension, the Go-ongers arrive before the Savage Machine Beast departs after his quarry. After clearing a misunderstanding with Geki Violet and Geki Chopper, the two bring them to SCRTC to see Master Xia Fu, with Hant revealing he met Miki at one of his past jobs at the Kyoryuya Curry Shop.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-24
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Ninja Scroll
Overview: Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-05
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Only Yesterday
Overview: In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Overview: After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-06
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Detective Conan: The Story of Ai Haibara: Black Iron Mystery Train
Overview: Ai Haibara (autonym Shiho Miyano a.k.a. Sherry). A woman with three identities, who boldly faces her destiny. Shiho Miyano (code name: Sherry), a scientist and a member of the Black Organization. The organization was the one that developed a mysterious poison APTX (Apotoxin) 4869, the drug that turned Shinichi Kudo into a little boy! However, when Sherry realizes that the Black Organization has murdered her sister Akemi, she betrays the Black Organization and decides to take APTX4869. The drug turns her into a little girl, and she decides to call herself Ai Haibara in order to hide from the Black Organization. Yet slowly but surely, the Black Organization begins to cast its shadow over her.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-06
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Baoh: The Visitor
Overview: Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and making biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, escapes with a young girl, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. For BAOH is a parasite living in its host's brain, altering the host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. When Doress sends assassins after the boy and girl, BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving the boy acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH must fight an army of commandos and a psionic to get her back
Genres: Horror Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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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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Yuki
Overview: Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-09
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Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics
Overview: Stolen from the famous "secret" Air Force base, Area 51, Lupin's most recently stolen treasure holds a secret. Four "Bloody Angels," the toughest women Lupin has ever faced, want the treasure for their own terrorist purposes. Meanwhile Zenigata teams up with a female police officer to hunt Lupin and the terrorists down.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-22
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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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Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection
Overview: In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on course towards the solar system. As the people on Earth prepare to relocate to planet Amare, whose ruler offers refuge, the tyrants known as the "S.U.S. Empire" attack the first Earth evacuation fleet. After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he intends to not only help humanity once again, but also find Yuki in the hope of helping his relationship with his daughter Miyuki, who puts the blame on him for her mother's disappearance. But in order to fullfil the mission, the Yamato must go through battles against the SUS Empire, who intend to spoil humanity's hopes of finding a new place to live in and turn Earth into energy for their own selfish needs.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Final Yamato
Overview: The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-19
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Summer Wars
Overview: A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-01
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Overview: Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-10
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Kamen Rider G
Overview: Goro is a sommelier who transforms into the titular Kamen Rider G to fight the former anti-terrorism unit Shade, who captured and brainwashed him into a soldier, before the unit went underground due to the use of kidnapped people as supersoldiers. During a raid at TV Asahi led by Daidō Oda, who demands the release of their imprisoned leader, Seizan Tokugawa, Goro encounters his girlfriend Eri Hinata. She jogs his memory and he attacks his former comrades while getting Eri out of harm's way. This makes Oda reveal his true form as the Phylloxera Worm while his subordinates transform into the Acarina Worm, the Subst Worm, the Brachypelma Worm Viridis, and the Cochlea Worm to attempt to destroy the traitor. After an extended fight across the city and countryside, G manages to defeat Phylloxera Worm thanks to the encouragement of Decade and the other primary Heisei Riders appearing before him. Running off, Goro vows to save the world from Shade before returning to Eri.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
Overview: The story of a beautiful mermaid who gave up a kingdom for her beloved prince.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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The Gutsy Frog: The Movie
Overview: A film version of New Gutsy Frog directed by Tsutomu Shibayama in 1982.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-20
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Samurai Gold
Overview: This science-fiction anime was inspired somewhat by the life of Kinshiro Toyama (1793-1855), who was first popularized in the 1893 kabuki play "Toyama no Kinsan."
Genres: Animation Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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Kenya Boy
Overview: An 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-10
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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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Urusei Yatsura: Only You
Overview: Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii who was mad at the many requests that the producer made of him to alter the movie. Rumiko Takahashi considers this film her favorite and it is the most true to the original series.
Genres: Animation Romance Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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TWD Express: Rolling Takeoff
Overview: A crew of space cargo workers rescue a beautiful android and land themselves in trouble thereby.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-14
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The Legend of Marine Snow
Overview: This little-known and poorly documented Leiji Matsumoto TV movie, tells the story of the revolution of the people of the ocean which are being invaded by the humans from the surface.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-12
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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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Grievance of a Starmaker
Overview: A boy is frustrated by the lack of bright stars in the sky. To reconcile the problem, he pays a visit to the Starmaker, a man whose lost faith in the world below him is restored by the boy's ardent devotion to cleaning the dirty stars.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Sun's Burial
Overview: In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-09
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The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
Overview: When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his powers of joy and happiness are tested as he explores the lands with his friends Beezle and Katy.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-14
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Unico in the Island of Magic
Overview: A young unicorn named Unico must fight an evil magician and save everyone who's trapped under his spell.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-16
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Age of the Great Dinosaurs
Overview: A UFO transports three children back to the prehistoric. Three kids who have heard a mysterious call from advanced beings whom are about to take them in a journey of self discovery through the ages learning from love and friendship but also hate in a world of dinosaurs.
Genres: Animation Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-07
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Nei-Nei! Hou-Hou! Hong Kong Decisive Battle
Overview: While in the middle of fighting, the Gekirangers and Mere are teleported to Hong Kong, along with Rio and various other martial artists around the world. Just as Rio and Jyan were about to fight, they meet the mysterious Lao Fan before seeing others brought to the island as well.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-04
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger vs. Boukenger
Overview: The team-up movie between Juken Sentai Gekiranger and GoGo Sentai Boukenger. Gekirangers are visited by Boukengers when someone from space with ultimate power threatens the existence of Earth
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete
Overview: The dashing Dr. Mambo and his unlikely sidekick, Jibako the thief, help Princess Laura, former ruler of Eden, to regain her birthright from the usurping president Capo.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-10
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Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven
Overview: As a pair of towers in Tokyo are being prepared for their grand opening, there is a series of murders of people connected to the towers. Conan suspects that the mysterious Syndicate may also be involved.
Genres: Animation Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-21
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Chie the Brat
Overview: Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-11
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Tatakae!! Ramenman
Overview: Theatrical film of the anime series Tatakae!! Ramenman, based on the manga chapter "Strike the Darkness".
Genres: Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-09
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Catnapped!
Overview: The story involves a boy and his younger sister whose dog Papadoll is missing. They find out that he has been abducted by anthropomorphic cats to be brought to a world called Banapal Witt, which is built on top of a giant sleeping cat. There the sun turns poor Papadoll into a bizarre giant monster. He becomes the weapon and beloved pet of a spoiled Princess who turns everything she touches into balloons. She plans to use Papadoll and a giant inflatable mouse to control the sleeping cat and thus Banapal Witt itself.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-30
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Twelve Months
Overview: A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-15
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The Red Spectacles
Overview: Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Harmagedon
Overview: From the depths of space he is coming... Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way here. He is… Genma. Only two people are aware of the imminent catastrophe: Princess Luna, a modern day prophetess and Vega, a cybernetic crusader from a world long since ravaged by Genma. Determined to spare the Earth from a similar fate, Luna and Vega must try to mobilize the most potent psychics in the world. Together, this army of fledging psychic warriors must succeed where billions have tried... and failed. But will they be able to gather their champions in time? Genma’s agents are already on Earth to ensure that their master meets with no opposition!
Genres: Horror Action Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-12
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Demon City Shinjuku
Overview: Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichiro's son, it falls to Kyoya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn't beat. Can Kyoya exceed his father's legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?
Genres: Action Fantasy Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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The Five Star Stories
Overview: Among the 5 star systems known as the Joker Systems, there are many kingdoms. There are knights within the kingdoms and these knights who control giant robots, Mortar Heads, are called Headliners. Bound to the knights are fatimas. Human in appearance and mind, the fatimas (mostly female) possess expanded physical capabilities and make it possible for a Headliner to control a Mortar Head. Fatimas cannot reproduce. All this is overseen by Emperor Amaterasu and his Mirage Knights.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-11
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Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief
Overview: Compiling the confrontations between Detective Conan and Kaito Kid, high school student Kuroha Kaido discovers his late father's secret life as the Phantom Thief Kid, inherits his costume, and embarks on a quest to uncover the mysterious organization behind his father's murder.
Genres: Animation Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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DNA Sights 999.9
Overview: After a meteor hits Earth, traitor forces have (for all intents and purposes) taken over, and the people are suffering. In the chaos, a boy named Tetsuro Daiba, who had lost his parents in the meteor hit, is paid a visit by Mello, a mysterious woman appearing in a bright light. When Daiba comes to, he finds itself in a spaceship infirmary under observation. Stealing a fighter that he didn't know how to pilot (until he tried it), he breaks out, flying like a total pro.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Tale of Jean Valjean
Overview: In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mother he once protected, and aligning himself with a band of student revolutionaries.
Genres: Animation History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-15
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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Movie - The Flying Ghost Ship
Overview: The Gokaigers embark on a quest to find the ghost ship that harbors the legendary God Eye, which grants any wish to whoever wields it. During their adventure, they must face Los Dark, the captain of the ghost ship, and a host of revived enemies of the previous Super Sentai teams such as Agent Abrella and Baseball Mask.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-06
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Ursa Minor Blue
Overview: This adventurous story of a boy named Uri and an old man takes place in the cosmic Milky Way where the starfish live. This is the tale of their fantasy journey in search of the mysterious monster fish.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Glassy Ocean
Overview: On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-14
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Hyper Psychic Geo Garaga
Overview: The year is 2755. As a result of a system malfunction, the cargo ship XeBeC goes off-course in a warp gate and ends up within the orbit of the distant planet Garaga. After crashing on Garaga's surface, the crew must find ways to survive from hideous monsters, rabid ape soldiers, and a race of mysterious psychics.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-21
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Ore no Sora Keiji-hen
Overview: Yasuda Ippei (Shonozaki Ken) is the son of Yasuda Seijiro (Osugi Ren), the head of Yasuda Group, Japan's biggest business conglomerate. Although he is the son of a distinguished family, he has absolutely no disagreeable areas and is liked by everyone. His academic achievements are exceptional. He completed his entire high school programme in 2 years and qualified for Tokyo University's Faculty of Law without studying for the exams. In order to establish his own concept of justice, Yasuda leaves his position as the heir to the Yasuda Group to attend the police academy. He becomes a detective at Kyobashi Police Precinct and bravely faces great evil.
Genres: Animation Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-21
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Gyun-Gyun! Fist Sage Great Athletic Meet
Overview: After their latest win, the three Gekirangers find the Kensei stretching for their annual Kensei Great Athletic Meet. Jan, wanting to win the gold medal and a year's supply of Televi magazines, joins the Red Team to go against the White Team. With Retsu as judge and Ran as moderator, the contest starts...
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-01
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Yawara! Atlanta Special
Overview: Yawara Inokuma competes for Japan in the Atlanta Olympic Games as she meets with several familiar faces throughout the tournament.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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What's Michael? 2
Overview: Michael the tabby cat returns for another series of vignettes. The sketches this time include a send-up of The Fugitive — Richard Kimble is now a veterinarian on the lam. Despite the danger, he must intervene whenever he sees a cat (always Michael) suffering; after treating the patient, he plays a trick on the cat and runs away. Another sketch draws parallels between wandering husbands and wandering house cats, who seem to have similar proclivities. Two more point out what happens when a cat's instincts run up against the requirements of baseball or pro wrestling.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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What's Michael?
Overview: Michael is a cat - with a difference. He lives with a cartoonist and his wife and does his best to keep his cool amid the trials of everyday life in suburbia, like fussing human girls, the local tough cat Nyazilla - just like big grey lizard, a foe too fearsome to take risks with - and the females of his own species.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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Future Boy Conan
Overview: In this 1979 condensed-for-film recut of Hayao Miyazaki's 1978 anime series, a young boy named Conan goes on a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great disaster of 2008. He meets a young girl named Lana, who is kidnapped by the technological city-state of Industria as they attempt to regain those weapons. Together with his friends, Conan sets out to rescue Lana and stop Industria from threatening the rest of the world.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-15
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Mobile Suit SD Gundam
Overview: A collection of short parodies of the Mobile Suit Gundam saga. Episode 1 pokes fun at key events that occurred during the One Year War. In episode 2, Amuro, Kamille and Judau fight over who runs the better pension when Char comes in to crash their party. Episode 3 is the SD Olympics, an array of athletic events pitting man with mobile suit.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-03-12
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Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II
Overview: Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk. II delivers with more tongue-in-cheek humor than the first series. In "The Rolling Colony Affair," a colony is hosting a cabaret show featuring the girls of Gundam. But the show turns disastrous when men and mobile suits go crazy over the girls, sending the colony rolling out of control. A parody of the videogame RPG genre, "Gundam Legend" has Amuro, Kamille and Judau sent on a perilous quest to rescue the princess of the Zeta Kingdom from Char Aznable and his vicious Zeon MS forces.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-25
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Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack
Overview: The first theatrically release of the SD Gundam series. Contains two shorts, "The Storm-Calling School Festival" and "The Tale of the SD Warring States: The Chapter of the Violent Final Sky Castle".
Genres: Animation Action Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-07-15
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Fumoon
Overview: Nuclear testing has resulted in the abrupt evolution of the Fumoon, a tiny but highly intelligent humanoid race on a small island, who are detected by Dr. Yamadano. Except for a few witnesses including the detective Shinsaku Ban, and the young men Rock and Kenichi and Kenichi’s sister Pichi (Pinoko), no one believes him. The Fumoon are kidnapping animals from around the world to bring with them as they use their space ships to evacuate the earth, because they know Earth is shortly to be destroyed by an enveloping cloud of black gas created by a stellar explosion. The Fumoon intend to abandon mankind, but one Fumoon, Rokoko, who becomes good friends with Kenichi, tries to help Dr. Yamadano and the others to develop a space ship to allow a few humans to escape, with the help of Dr. Ochanomizu and Dr. Frankenstein.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-30
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MAROKO
Overview: Theatrical anime movie created from the OVA 'Gosenzosama Banbanzai', written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-19
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Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission
Overview: Isaac Netero is the chairman of the Hunter Association. Decades ago he sealed away Jed, a Hunter who had mastered the use of On, the dark "shadow" of Nen. Now On users have reappeared at the Heaven's Arena "Battle Olympia" tournament. For Netero, this is the last mission: to protect the Association and the world from a threat driven by hatred and the thirst for revenge. And he's going to need all the help he can get in order to succeed.
Genres: Adventure Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-27
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One Piece: Dead End Adventure
Overview: Desperate for cash, the Straw Hat Pirates enter a secret race between pirate crews known as the Dead End Competition. There, they must battle against powerful people, including the bounty hunter who wants to kill Gasparde and a climatic battle with Marine-turned-pirate Captain Gasparde.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-01
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
Overview: Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-10
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Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!!
Overview: Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-01
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Rhea Gall Force
Overview: The last remaining human soldiers of a devastated Earth fight against the machines for one last chance for their species to escape and survive.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action Adventure War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-20
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One Pound Gospel
Overview: Hatanaka Kosaku is a young boxer who has a major flaw, he can't stop eating. That weakness puts him into into heavier weight classes that put him against stronger boxers and even worse, he's prone to throw up when he gets a body blow, which drives potential opponents away. His coach is at his wit's end as he struggles to get this idiot to show some discipline in his training. The matter is complicated when a young nun feeds the "starving" boy after she finds him fainted on the streets during his enforced fast. She learns of her mistake and she tries to help him get ready for a fight, but his weakness for food and the odd relationship they share don't makes things easy.
Genres: Romance Action Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-02
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Relic Armor Legaciam
Overview: The planet Libertia was once known as “the planet of death”, until humanity built three giant mirrors and created what seemed like an ideal land. It is on this planet that Professor Grace and his granddaughter Alcia live peacefully… until their home is attacked by Guild soldiers looking for the professor and for Legaciam – a special Armor that can resist extreme heat, allowing it to go to areas where humans would not survive normally. Alcia, who was at the time piloting Legaciam in order to help her grandfather with the testing, manages to get away… barely. But the Guild is determined to get Legaciam by any means necessary...
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker
Overview: It is summertime, and Shinobu laments not having a boyfriend. She then happens upon a young man weak from hunger, and wearing a rabbit costume. She gives him a carrot, he expresses his gratitude by hitting on her... and she hits back. The young man leaves behind a key to another dimension where everybody's possible futures exist. Lum and Ataru join Shinobu to find the bunny boy, and happy futures for themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-18
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Love City
Overview: In a dystopic and futuristic Tokyo, humanity’s genetic code has gone awry. At the forefront of the technology is Fraud, an organization conducting experiments on people such as Kei and Ai – two escaped “headmeters” with hefty psychokinetic powers. The sinister Mr. Lee wants nothing more to retrieve Ai back to his clutches, as she seemingly holds the key to immense power; Kei wants simply to keep Ai safe; and the evil Lai Lo Ching has his own master plan. Along with the help of the amnesiac headmeter K2 and a trusty sidekick, Kei must fight to protect Ai from the evils of Mr. Lee, Lai Lo Ching, and the state of the world itself!
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-26
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The Dagger of Kamui
Overview: A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After fulfilling that task, Jiro undergoes training to become a master assassin. Many years later, Jiro finds out that he was an orphan and his real father was Tarouza, who had worked for Tenkai until he aborted his mission when he fell in love with an Ainu woman. The young ninja discovers that the Shogunate was to retrieve the lost treasure of Captain Kidd and use it to once again isolate Japan from the rest of the world. Using the clues that Tarouza had kept secret, Jiro - along with the female ninja Oyuki and a slave named Sam - travels to Russia and America to search for the treasure in hopes of using it to extract revenge from Tenkai.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-08
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Queen Millennia
Overview: The planet LaMetal is on a collision (and conquering) course with the Earth, and the only one who can stop the forthcoming catastrophe is Queen Millennia, a former princess of La-Metal who has made Earth her home.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-13
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Monster of Frankenstein
Overview: The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together with his partner Zuckel, the monster attacks the assistant and falls from a cliff. Assuming the monster is dead, Victor returns to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Emily. A police inspector named Bellbeau investigates some mysterious mutilations killings, and Victor is blackmailed by his former assistant, who lost an eye in his fight with the monster.
Genres: Horror Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-27
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Overview: A peasant boy and 38 cats band against the tyrannical Ali Baba the 33rd and his cat-phobic genie.
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-18
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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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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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Gall Force: Earth Chapter
Overview: After the completion of Operation Exodus,the Earth-based forces must survive long enough for the Mars re-inforcements. During this time, Sandy Newman and her squad face a challenge to their military training in the form of a quasi-religious group called Geo Chris which endeavours to make the Earth green once more. Unknown to them, the plans Mars have drawn up will kill the machines and the forces fighting against them.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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The Legend of Manxmouse
Overview: A ceramic figure of a blue mouse with long ears, stubby legs, and no tail suddenly comes to life. He is a “Manxmouse” as known in the legend. Since he is new to this world, his fearless curiosity leads him to meet a frog couple, an aviator hawk, a stray tiger, and a girl. Although he learns about his ultimate fate-to be eaten by a “Manxcat”-he decides to face this cat and challenge his destiny.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-30
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Lupin vs. Holmes
Overview: The famous detective Sherlock Holmes is hired from France to solve cases linked with the famous criminal Arsène Lupin.
Genres: Animation Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-05
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Spooky Kitaro
Overview: Movie based on the 1985 TV anime.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Yona Yona Penguin
Overview: Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and there are penguins.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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Windaria
Overview: In a land filled with magic and mystery, two rival kingdoms are readying for war: Isa, the beautiful water-laden city, and Paro, the industrialized wasteland. Windaria follows the tale of two sets of lovers: Marin and Izu, a young pair of farmers who are devoted to one another, and Ahanas and Jill, princess and prince of the rival kingdoms. With war approaching, these star-crossed lovers will experience the true depth of tragedy as they struggle to survive.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-19
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Be Forever Yamato
Overview: The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Crystal Triangle: The Forbidden Revelation
Overview: In times of olde, God gave mankind the ten commandments, and a message that has been lost to the centuries. In the present, Koichiro Kamishiro is a modern day Indiana Jones who scours (and often destroys) ruins for hints of the past, until one day he runs across a box filled with two crystal triangles. Having inadvertently run across the key to God's lost message, Kamishiro suddenly has a lot to deal with including assassination attempts by the KGB and the CIA, aliens hell-bent on destroying the Earth and the love of several women!
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-22
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Die Biene Maja - Ihre schönsten Abenteuer
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Crying Freeman 4: A Taste of Revenge
Overview: Naitai, the evil head of the Great Bear God religion, hatches a plot to destroy the 108 Dragons. His henchman, Oshu Togoku, the world wrestling champion, squeezes Ron Tayan unconscious in a match; the ambulance taking Ron to hospital is actually driven by Kimie, one of Ron's old enemies. She takes him to Naitai's stronghold where he has prepared a clone of Ron whom he intends to send, like a Trojan horse, onto the yacht of the 108 Dragons. Can Ron foil the plot? Will Fu recognize the clone or be fooled? What of Oshu Togoku, can anyone defeat him? And who, or what, can stand up to Naitai's sorcery?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Amon Saga
Overview: Set in a world of fantasy and adventure, Amon is a young warrior embarking on a quest to avenge the death of his mother. When the hunt leads him ultimately to the kingdom of Valhiss, Amon enlists in the ranks of the Emperor's army in order to gain an opportunity to exact his revenge. However, a chance encounter with the Princess Lichia, being held captive by the Emperor in an effort to ransom a map away from his main rival, King Darai-Sem, Amon must decide whether to follow his path of revenge or to help rescue the Princess in an effort to save a lost kingdom.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-18
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Goku: Midnight Eye
Overview: Tokyo, 2014: a city balancing on the razor's edge between financial prosperity and seismic destruction. It is a place where the lights are bright, the stakes are high, and where the threat of imminent destruction breeds crime like a disease. But for Gokuu Furinji, ex-cop and super-powered private detective, crime is money...
Genres: Animation Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-27
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Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War
Overview: The second movie based on the 1985 TV anime.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-15
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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: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
Overview: Ten gives Ataru an alien disease, the contagious "Girl Measles," (which makes the victim's eyes turn big and twinkly, like the eyes of young girls in much of manga and anime), and when Ataru's girl-hunting spreads the virus all over Tomobiki Town, chaos ensues!
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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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: 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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Gdleen
Overview: Ryu, a ladder-climbing salaryman exploring the galaxy on the company’s dime, crash-lands in the middle of a generational war over the seat of power on the planet Gdleen.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Dream Dimension Gentleman
Overview: When a strange group of men attempt to kidnap Atsuko Fukune, a dancer at a club, she seeks the help of Mamiya Mugen, a famous detective - who also happens to be a child. When it turns out that other girls have gone missing, Mamiya, with the help of his butler Alucard, springs into action to solve the mystery.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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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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Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
Overview: The Z Warriors discover an unopenable music box and are told to open it with the Dragon Balls. The contents turn out to be a warrior named Tapion who had sealed himself inside along with a monster called Hildegarn. Goku must now perfect a new technique to defeat the evil monster.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-15
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Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge
Overview: After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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Grandeek
Overview: Tia arrives on the island of Marcleida with her trusted sword 'Grandeek,' which holds a spirit within that helps her on her quests. She is soon turned away however. Determined to get on the island, Tia searches for a way past the fences that guard the entrance, as another stranger arrives on the island to take on a mysterious job. Someone has been killing the inhabitants of the island and has the ability to appear and disappear at will. Seems the sword 'Aihorn' has been stolen and the spirit that resides within it seeks vengenance on those who killed its master 50 years before.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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Flying Phantom Ship
Overview: Hayato's home city is under attack from a gigantic robot. His parents are lying dead in the rubble and the only remaining friend is his dog. His only thought now is revenge against the owner of the Phantom Ship (from where the robot said he was sent). He ends up in the house of Kuroshio, the leader of the fight against the Phantom Ship and the most important person in the city. By complete accident, Hayato finds his way to an underground passageway where he realises that the true nature of events does not mesh with what Kuroshio has told him. His life is now in great danger, and only he can stop the plans of the evildoers.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-20
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The Tale of Osamu Tezuka: I'm Son-Goku
Overview: A semi-autobiography of Tezuka Osamu combined with a 30 minute science-fiction setting of Journey to the West.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-27
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The Panda's Great Adventure
Overview: A young panda prince is found unworthy by his mother the Queen, and expelled from the forest. In his journey, he battles dangerous enemies and gets captures and forced to work in a circus.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-11
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The Sensualist
Overview: A story of a man's erotic experiences since the age of 7, based on the 17th-century novel by Saikaku Ihara.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Botchan
Overview: Botchan, a recent graduate, sets out for his first teaching assignment - never anticipating what awaits him. He must contend with students who spy on him and pull nasty stunts and with a landlord who constantly tries to sell him worthless antiques. While on a fishing trip to boost his spirits, Botchan suspects Hotta, his one friend in the village, as the cause of all of his misery. But this is just beginning of his problems - During a meeting to discuss the students' disrespectful behavior towards Botchan, the proposed punishment is surprisingly mild despite the severity of the acts. Yet, Botchan's suspected adversary defends him. Were the other faculty members lying about Hotta? Botchan may soon discover the truth, for when evidence of the dean's activities surface, Botchan and Hotta must team up to corner the dean in his own scandalous game. Based on Natsume Soseki's 1906 novel, which was one of Japan's best-selling books.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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Mazinger Z vs. Devilman
Overview: Mazinger Z vs. Devilman is a 1973 animated movie that crossed over two then-popular Anime series, both of which were created by Manga artist Go Nagai. While fighting with some of his enemies Mazinger Z inadvertently knocks them into a volcano, where they crash into the prison of the Satan race and release Phoenix Jenny! Dr. Hell, learning of this, frees the rest of the Satan race and teams up with them to defeat Mazinger Z, and their ability to fly proves to be too much for our hero. Meanwhile, Devilman is also individually fighting the members of the Satan race, but their combined power is too much for him as well; can Mazinger and Devilman put aside their differences and team up to defeat Dr. Hell and the Satan race?
Genres: Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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Rain Boy
Overview: A lonely kid who lives in the countryside meets a strange boy who has a ragged umbrella over his head and there is always rain pouring over him. The rain boy is dazzled by the other kid's boots and offers three wishes in exchange for them.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Nine: Final
Overview: The Nine saga comes to a close with the third installment
Genres: Animation Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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Birth: A War of Two Worlds
Overview: Aqualoid was a prosperous planet, but an attack from a mysterious life force, the Inorganics, transforms it into a post-apocalyptic shell of its former self. When Nam finds a mysterious sword, he is suddenly the object of a planet-wide chase. With the Inorganics closing in, will Nam and his friends discover the secret of the sword and save their world? Or will they destroy Aqualoid in favor of a new Birth?
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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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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Spooky Kitaro: The Strongest Ghost Army! Landing in Japan!!
Overview: A monster appeared out of nowhere, transformed into a human, and began selling strange cloth. Becoming suspicious, the cat girl follows him and witnesses a horrifying scene deep in the mountains. Using a technique she had never seen before, she turned her colored paper into a piece of cloth...
Genres: Animation Horror Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-12
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Nora
Overview: Nora is on vacation in a "Holiday Inn" space station. When the artificial gravity fails, the whole space resort becomes chaotic but she helps solve the problem.
Genres: Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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Twinkle Nora Rock Me!
Overview: Nora Scholar is now an interstellar bounty hunter, pursuing a powerful psychic on the desolate mining planet, Dazzle. There she befriends a would-be dancer named Max. Together, they take on the ESPer, Fuuchino, and his oversized bruiser of a brother, Touchino.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-21
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Horror News
Overview: For reasons unknown to him, Rei receives the Kyoufu Shinbun every morning, a newspaper which foresees deaths and catastrophes... Based on Tsunoda Jirou's classic horror manga "Kyoufu Shinbun", serialized in Weekly Shounen Champion.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-21
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Little Wansa
Overview: The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a husky puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much time looking for his mother. During his adventures on the street he meets friends, enemies and his beloved girlfriend. This OVA reunites the complete series aired on TV.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-21
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Red Fang: Blue Sonnet
Overview: Sonnet is a cyborg/esper from a harsh background and now trained to be the ultimate warrior and most powerful weapon in the world. She is sent to Japan to watch Komatsuzaki Lan, who is thought to be controlled by the rage of the esper Akai Kiba (Crimson Fang). Lan is a quiet girl who knows she's different from everybody else and starts to show signs of Crimson Fang after coming into contact with Sonnet. In the course of fighting with Lan, Sonnet starts to rediscover her humanity. At the same time Lan has to fight to retain her humanity and control the Crimson Fang.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-07-16
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Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy
Overview: An anime film for the second Cyborg 009 anime TV series.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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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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Saint Elmo - Apostle of Light
Overview: Inside Mercury, Japan builds a large-sized solar space power plant. The plant supports Earth with its large solar energy supply but suddenly there is an abnormality at the Saint Elmo plant. To pinpoint the problem, Earth sends several technicians to fix it.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Overview: D, a legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman who has seemingly been abducted by vampire nobleman Meier Link.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Buddha: The Great Departure
Overview: Prince Siddhartha is heir to the Shakya kingdom, which is constantly at war with the more powerful Kosala kingdom. His father tries to raise as him as a warrior leader and to shield him from the miseries of the world. Meeting the young outcast girl Migaila, Siddhartha experiences love for the first time but also witnesses the suffering that afflicts humankind. Meanwhile, in Kosala, Chapra rises through the military, despite his lowly origins, to become a hero and general of the army. A final showdown between the two kingdoms forces Siddhartha to re-evaluate the path he is following.
Genres: Adventure Animation Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-28
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Ultimate Teacher
Overview: At a run down school the "Ultimate Teacher" Ganpachi is sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent students for the real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi ruining the gang they got going so their boss, Hinako, fights back Ganpachi aided by her secret power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things get more interesting when we findout Ganpachi is the result of genetic experiments.
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-06
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