Norio Wakamoto
Also Known As: Wakamoto Norio, Wakamoto Noriaki, 若本規夫, 若本纪昭, 若本规夫
Biography: Graduated from Waseda University.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yamaguchi, Japan
Birthday: October 18, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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They Were Eleven
Overview: A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there...
Genres: Animation Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Slayers: The Motion Picture
Overview: Plagued by a recurring dream, master thief and sorceress Lina Inverse discovers ancient evil and lovers cruelly parted. Dragged into a vortex of time, she must fight to restore history to its proper course. But what will she do when the fearsome power of the Dragon Slave spell fails her as she tries to change the past and save the future!
Genres: Animation Fantasy Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-05
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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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Plastic Little: The Adventures of Captain Tita
Overview: Narrowly escaping the clutches of Lord Guizei and his band of professional killers, Elysse Mordish is on the run and in possession of a vital computer code needed by the military to reactivate a high-powered secret weapon. Enter Tita, intergalactic pet shop hunter and captain of the Cha Cha Maru. Through shear dumb luck she finds herself rescuing Elysse from military hunters thus putting the lives of both herself and her crew in mortal peril! It's a dangerous game of cat and mouse on a planet-wide scale with one crucial difference... mice don't shoot back, but Tita does!
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-21
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Appleseed
Overview: In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
Genres: Crime Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-20
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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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Mobile Suit Gundam I
Overview: In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has sparked a war.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-14
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Gintama: The Movie
Overview: Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term "Odd Jobs" means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of Gintoki Sakata's somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs collide, the action is bound to get so wild and demented that only a feature film will do it justice!
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-24
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Sengoku Basara: The Last Party
Overview: The story of the film is set after the conflict instigated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended, but not before the Battle of Sekigahara determines who shall be the Shogun of Japan.
Genres: Animation Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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Gintama: The Very Final
Overview: The concluding film to the Gintama animated series, adapting the final chapters of the comic series of the same name by Hideaki Sorachi. The film covers chapters 699–704 of the original comics, with original material added in.
Genres: Animation Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-08
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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
Overview: Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
Genres: Thriller Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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Puppet Princess
Overview: Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest.
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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Burn Up
Overview: To the unsuspecting eye Maki, Reimi and Yuka may not look like ace crime fighters, which might explain why they're stuck on traffic patrol instead of more "exciting" police duties. All that changes when Yuka gets herself kidnapped by a white slave organization run by a politically connected businessman who's got the rest of the police cowed. Now it's up to Maki and Reimi to don skin-tight battle armor, liberate a tank, and make sure that a certain slaver learns that when you play with fire, you're going to get your ass burned!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-21
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Wrath of the Ninja: The Yotoden Movie
Overview: The year is 1580, and the unholy armies of Lord Nobunaga Oda spread across Japan, murdering all who oppose them. Narrowly escaping the slaughter of her clan, a young ninja steals into the shadows. She is the last of her kind, and the dagger she wields is one of three mystical blades that can end Lord Oda's rule. On her quest to overthrow the tyrant, she is joined by two other renegade ninja, possessors of the sacred sword and spear. Together, these shadow warriors must unite their weapons and skills to fulfill the Prophesy of the Enchanted Swords... or die trying.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-27
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Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World
Overview: When a powerful new foe known as the Legendorga arises in 2008, Wataru investigates the mystery behind the crisis, which brings him in contact with a man Nago once knew, Shiramine Takato, whose 3WA also possess their own Rider System. When Shiramine explains how everything began in 1986, Wataru uses Castle Doran’s Time Door to travel back in time, leading him to meet his father face-to-face at last. But has Wataru managed to change the future, or will the Legendorga still rise and enslave humanity?
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-09
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Cosmos Pink Shock
Overview: Micchi thrusts though space on her spacecraft Pink Shock, hoping to be reunited with her long lost lover.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-21
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Superdimensional Romanesque Samy: Missing 99
Overview: A young schoolgirl Samy sees some bikers hurt some other girls and that makes the bikers come after Samy. While fleeing she gets the help of a boy and her dog, but she still ends up in a different world along with her dog. In there she helps a witch who has lost her glass eye. But bad demons search for her as well and soon she ends up in the fight between gods and demons because she holds a great power within.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-05
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Ninja Gaiden
Overview: A long time ago, there was a war between the Evil God and the Dragon God. The war finally came to an end when a Dragon Ninja, who had the power of the Dragon God, sealed away the Evil God.Several thousand years later, in New York, a young ninja named Ryu is attacked by a couple of men in black suits wearing white masks. He notices that they are related to someone worshiping the same Evil God of the past and resolves to fight against them before the Evil God is unsealed again.
Genres: Animation Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!
Overview: While Luffy and his crew of Zoro and Nami are starving on their small boat, they are attacked by a large monster. Nami is taken away, while Luffy and Zoro wash up on shore. There they meet a young girl, Medaka, and learn of the sad history of the island. The evil Pirate Ganzack has taken away all the men in the village and enslaved them, including Medaka's father. Now Luffy, Zoro, and Medaka must infiltrate Ganzack's base in order to rescue the villagers and Nami.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-26
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars
Overview: For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-06
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Fly! Peek the Whale
Overview: As a little boy Kei saw his fisherman father lost at sea only seconds after catching his parting gift of a pan flute carved from whalebone. A few years later young Kei and his kid brother Moito discover a baby whale trapped by a rock in a shallow inlet near the Spanish coast.
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-22
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Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Overview: An adolescent with the ability to control a looming war-golem becomes entangled in the Experts of Justice's fight against the infamous group Big Fire.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-22
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Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
Overview: Ultraman Zero, the rookie Ultraman from Tsuburaya Productions’ 2009 theatrical movie returns, and getting full-fledged. However, he is confronted with the empowered Kaiser Belial, back from the evil Ultraman Belial whom he and other Ultraman warriors battled so hard on the m-78 Planet. Can Ultraman Zero live to the expectations of his legendary father Ultra Seven? Check it out in the latest Tsuburaya Productions’ action packed movie.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Overview: The Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization that was once destroyed by Goku in the past, has been reformed by a group of people who have created new and mightier Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, and seek vengeance against Goku and his family.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-11
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Bayonetta: Bloody Fate
Overview: Bayonetta is an ancient witch who awakens from a five hundred-year slumber with no memory of her life. Armed with a gun in each limb, she embarks on a journey to rediscover her past, defeating all bloodthirsty angels that stand in her way.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie
Overview: Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Bowie, but then finds himself drawn into a complex struggle over the fate of a mysterious wandering planet.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-03
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Kayoko's Diary
Overview: Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. Nothing can prepare her for 1945, and the bleak times that are soon to come.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-09
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Blue Gender: The Warrior
Overview: It is a time of chaos. Earth is no longer what it used to be. It has been infested with a bug like species called the Blue. Yuji Kaido, who has a mysterious disease, is put into suspended animation until a cure is found. When he wakes up Yuji learns that its been more than 20 years since he was put into suspended animation, and the world is now controled by these creatures. He joins a group of soldiers equipped with powerful mechas to fight against the Blue for hope of a better future.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
Overview: Mouri Kogoro is called to a special case in the ancient capital of Kyoto. There, Conan meets Heiji and they team up once again to solve the case, recover the stolen Healing Buddha statue, and even discover the identity of Heiji's first love.
Genres: Animation Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-19
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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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Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea
Overview: The movie is set on a state-of-the art Aegis vessel with the full cooperation of Japan's real-life Ministry of Defense and Maritime Self-Defense Force. The corpse of a Self-Defense Force member has been found — minus the left arm — and a spy has infiltrated the Aegis vessel. The heroine Ran is put in jeopardy, and Conan is forced to stand up against the dangerous Spy "X."
Genres: Animation Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Dragon Ball Z: Gather Together! Goku's World
Overview: In this OVA, Goku and his friends pose questions for the viewers about the Dragon Ball series.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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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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Kiddy Grade II: Maelstrom
Overview: The story takes place in a future where the human race has expanded and inhabits a multitude of planets in the universe with fantastic technology. Unsurprisingly, crime has grown alongside technology, and thus the GOTT, Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, is formed as a sort of universal police force. Within this organization, there is a special (and secret) branch known as the ES Force (ES standing for "Encounter of Shadow-work"), consisting of twelve young people that possess amazing superpowers. Each ES member operates with another as a team, and the series' focus is a team of two low-level members, Éclair and Lumière. As the series progresses, they start to see the darker side of GOTT and its secrets.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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Kiddy Grade III: Truth Dawn
Overview: The story takes place in a future where the human race has expanded and inhabits a multitude of planets in the universe with fantastic technology. Unsurprisingly, crime has grown alongside technology, and thus the GOTT, Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, is formed as a sort of universal police force. Within this organization, there is a special (and secret) branch known as the ES Force (ES standing for "Encounter of Shadow-work"), consisting of twelve young people that possess amazing superpowers. Each ES member operates with another as a team, and the series' focus is a team of two low-level members, Éclair and Lumière. As the series progresses, they start to see the darker side of GOTT and its secrets.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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Street Fighter X Tekken Vita
Overview: Characters from both the "Street Fighter" and "Tekken" worlds collide in an epic battle of superpowers.
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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Cosmo Police Justy
Overview: In the future humanity is spread throughout the galaxy. In their efforts to combat criminal espers the Cosmo Police are fortunate to have Justy on their side. However the esper criminals also know this and some of them are making plans for Cosmo Policeman Justy. As their leader says "There's only one way to kill the most powerful esper in the galaxy".
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-07-20
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Virgin Fleet
Overview: In the pre-WWII era, Nakano Naval Academy's special school for girls is codenamed "Virgin Fleet". These girls are gifted with a special form of power known as "Virgin Energy". With the fear of another Russo-Japanese war imminent, rookie pilot Shiokaze Umino must hone her powers to save Japan from complete destruction.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-25
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Cyber City Oedo 808
Overview: In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal apprehended, and for each successful mission done, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. Lead by Hasegawa, the new recruits: Sengoku, Gogul, and Benton will bring some hard justice to Oedo and possibly taste freedom again.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Horror Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-21
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Slayers Great
Overview: All Laia Einburg wants for her golem-making father Galia and her equally ambitious brother Huey is to end a long running feud. But her world gets turned upside down when short-stature Lina Inverse and overly endowed Naga the Serpent save Laia from a rampaging golem. A grateful, but smitten, Galia asks Lina to be a model for his work. Not to be outdone, Huey makes a similar request to Naga. The results are towering remote-controlled golems in the image of our favorite sorceresses! Huey gets all the proportions right, but Galia's taste is just weird. Adding insult to injury, Galia turns Lina into a magical battery pack! Officially, Lords Haizen and Granion commissioned these golems for a contest to determine the ruler of the city of Stoner. But the lords are secretly planning to use the golems as prototypes for an army of conquest! Can Lina and Naga save the city from tyranny?
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem
Overview: Synopsis Kogoro and Conan came to Yokohama according to a request from a mysterious man. But that was a trap of this man. Ran and the Detective Boys will be taken as hostages. If they don't solve the request of the man within 12 hours, the bombs attached to the hostages will explode. Furthermore, the man know that Conan`s true identity is Kudo Shinichi. Also Hattori Heiji, the High School Detective of the West, and Kaito Kid enter the stage. Will they be able to solve the mystery within the time limit and save Ran and the others? And who in the world is the client?
Genres: Animation Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-04-15
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Genocyber
Overview: As the nations of the world begin to merge, world peace is threatened by the private armies of individual corporations. The Kuryu Group has just discovered a weapon that will tip world power in their favor. The Genocyber: a nightmarish combination of cybernetics and psychic potential. Many desire to control this monstrosity, but can its hatred be contained... Battle erupts, and the cyberpunk world of the future is about to explode with violence.
Genres: Animation Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-02
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Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter
Overview: Bombing case at Nichiuri TV in autumn. The Satsuki Cup, which crowns the winner of Japan's Hyakunin Isshu, is currently being filmed inside the facility. The incident results in a big commotion and, while the building is burning to ashes, the only people left inside are Hattori and Toyama Kazuha. They get rescued just in time by Conan , who rushes to the scene. Both the identity and purposes of the bomber are unknown.
Genres: Animation Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-15
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Detective Conan: Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba
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Genres: Crime TV Movie Animation Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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M.D. Geist
Overview: Geist (the main character) is MD-02, a Most Dangerous Soldier, genetically engineered to function as a killing machine, but every one of the MDS units went homicidally insane. As a result Geist was placed in suspended animation in a stasis pod orbiting the planet Jerra until it crashed several years later, awakening him and bringing him into another war on the planet.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo
Overview: Years after the defeat of the Reptilian Empire, Getter Team has begun training on a new super robot, Neo Getter Robo. But a surprise attack from the Empire's revived leader forces them to recruit a street fighter named Go Ichimonji as Getter One's pilot. Faced with an enormously powerful foe, the new team's only hope for victory may lie in the resurrection of the lost weapon of humanity, Shin Getter Robo.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-21
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Dark Warrior
Overview: A Silicon Valley whiz kid, billionaire creator of the most intelligent computer on Earth, has got bigger problems than being on the cover of Time magazine. The thing is, the corporation he works for is planning to use his ideas to take over the world. As if that weren't enough, they're planning to wipe the slate of humanity clean and install their own race of preprogrammed superbeings in their place. The unwitting prototype?...
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-22
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Odin: Starlight Mutiny
Overview: Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-10
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Gunbuster: The Movie
Overview: Noriko Takaya's dream is to become a space pilot like her father, who died when she was young after an attack by alien forces in deep space. After entering Okinawa Girls Space Pilot High School, she must persuade everyone, especially herself, that she can fulfill her goal and become an accomplished pilot despite being just an ordinary girl.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-01
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Locke the Superman: Lord Leon
Overview: It is the year 336 of the Space Century on the planet of Sieren, and in the state of Innex, Flora Rain-who is blind-is employed at an elementary school. Flora is adored by her students, the principal of the school, and all the town's people, and enjoys a peaceful life in the town. By chance, she meets a strange youth named Locke. Locke has numerous superpowers, although he is very discreet about them and gives the impression of being an ordinary youth. One day, Locke is visited by a Military man, Major Caliann, who requests Locke's assistance in their investigation of Lordleon. Lordleon and his space pirates have attacked the enterprise Astoria Concern, but the chairman, Great Georg, didn't report the incident to the Union. The Union though this very strange, and decided to investigate Lordleon.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-25
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Urotsukidōji II: Legend of the Demon Womb
Overview: In this sequel to Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend, the unbelievable sexual violence of the Overfiend and his cohorts from Hell continues to wreak havoc on the earth. Who can stop this relentless onslaught? Urotsukidōji II: Legend of the Demon Womb was originally released as a 2 episode OVA series from December 1, 1990 to April 10, 1991 but was later re-release as a compilation film on July 21, 1991.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-27
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Kiddy Grade I: Ignition
Overview: The story takes place in a future where the human race has expanded and inhabits a multitude of planets in the universe with fantastic technology. Unsurprisingly, crime has grown alongside technology, and thus the GOTT, Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, is formed as a sort of universal police force. Within this organization, there is a special (and secret) branch known as the ES Force (ES standing for "Encounter of Shadow-work"), consisting of twelve young people that possess amazing superpowers. Each ES member operates with another as a team, and the series' focus is a team of two low-level members, Éclair and Lumière. As the series progresses, they start to see the darker side of GOTT and its secrets.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-08
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Detonator Orgun
Overview: Fleeing from his own race, Orgun—an alien being with superhuman abilities and unearthly weapons—travels to Earth to find an answer to his origin. There, he bonds with a young man named Tomoru to defend Earth against the Evoluders, who seek nothing but destruction of other civilizations.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-25
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Seijuu Sentai Gingaman vs Megaranger
Overview: The team-up between Seijuu Sentai Gingaman and Denji Sentai Megaranger.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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The Last War of the Heavenliods and Akutoliods
Overview: To save both the Magical Kingdom and the Heavens and restore the flow of akuto, the flow of energy of everything, the Magical King Munto must follow a vision and find the girl Yumemi in the normal world. Yumemi herself is just a normal girl except that she is the only one who can see the islands of the Heavens floating above. When Munto appears before her she starts thinking about hers and others responsibility to the world.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past
Overview: When an American scientist carrying a cure for the AIDS virus is kidnapped by an arms merchant, John Kyosuke is forced back from retirement. He accepts the challenge to regain pocession of the anti-serum. He finds out that some of the people he is after are closely related, which gives his conquest a whole new meaning.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Space Family Carlvinson
Overview: After hitting a passing spaceship and causing it to crash, a troupe of aliens and robots rescue the only survivor. It is a human baby named Corona that they decide to raise on their own, using the data they retrieved from the computer to mimic the life she would have had on Earth.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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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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Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One
Overview: After the end of the civil war that tore apart Japan, the new governors of Touto, Hokuto and Seito work together to reunify the country. However, they are actually members of an extraterrestrial race called the "Blood Tribe" (the same species as Evolto), who assumed their government positions as part of a plan to destroy Earth as they have done to Mars and other planets before. Considering Sento Kiryū (Kamen Rider Build) a major threat to their plans, the Blood Tribe manipulates his friends and other civilians into attacking him. With even his close ally Ryūga Banjō (Kamen Rider Cross-Z) now against him, Sento must fight to survive and stop the Blood Tribe's plan from succeeding.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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Mezzo Forte
Overview: The target of hitgirl Mikura is a wealthy baseball team owner, but he turns out to be a powerful underworld boss. Mikura and her team are beset by countless heavily armed bodyguards and the boss' vicious daughter.
Genres: Animation Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-25
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion – Initiation
Overview: A recap of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion episodes 1–17, with new footage. Lelouch, a prince of Britannia, is sent to Japan as a hostage. When he is accidentally caught up in a fight, he acquires the power to control anyone and uses it to become a masked rebel named Zero.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-21
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Kamen Rider Prime Rogue
Overview: This special takes place before episode 42 of the Kamen Rider Build TV series. Misora, who has gotten irritated with Gentoku’s Fashion Sense, takes him out for shopping to buy new clothes. Over there he meets a boy but...
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-03
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Bagi: The Monster of Mighty Nature
Overview: Tezuka Osamu's tale of a genetically engineered pink American Mountain-lion named Bagi and the friendship she develops with Ryo, a lonesome bike gang member.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-19
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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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Crying Freeman 3: Shades of Death, Part 2
Overview: Ron Tayan now leads the 108 Dragons; Fu Ching Ran is his loyal wife. As their body tattoos show, he's the dragon, she's the tiger. The 108 Dragons are attacked by African Tusk, a syndicate intent on world control. Ron goes to Africa, dealing first with Shicaro, African Tusk's assassin, then with Jagone, its leader. Despite his success, he must still face Bugnug, Jagone's muscular and athletic military commander: Ron gives her a new name, Dark Eyes. Back in Hong Kong, Fu faces danger as well. A Muramasa sword with a dark history and, seemingly, its own demon spirit, falls into her hands. She seeks to tame it, and in the process, discovers her inner warrior identity
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Black Jack: The Movie
Overview: Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!
Genres: Animation Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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Tetsujin 28: Morning Moon of Midday
Overview: Japan, ten years after World War II. Boy detective Shotaro solves mysteries and fights crime with the help of Tetsujin 28, the 50-foot tall giant robot left for him by his late genius father. But one day he's shocked to learn that his father also adopted and raised another boy named Shotaro, now a repatriated soldier. Just as surprising to our young hero is the fact that his “big brother” can also control Tetsujin, even better than he can. But with the emergence of this elder brother comes danger, as a mysterious assassin, Morning Moon, closes in on the boy for being unworthy of controlling the robot. Meanwhile, the capital faces destruction when multiple bombs are discovered, planted by the two Shotaros' father himself!
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-31
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Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend
Overview: Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the "Choujin" (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth.
Genres: Animation Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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Metropolis
Overview: Kenichi and his detective uncle, Shunsaku Ban, leave Japan to visit Metropolis, in search of the criminal, Dr. Laughton. However, when they finally find Dr. Laughton, Kenichi and Shunsaku find themselves seperated and plunged into the middle of a larger conspiracy. While Shunsaku searches for his nephew and explanations, Kenichi tries to protect Tima (a mysterious young girl), from Duke Red and his adopted son Rock, both of whom have very different reasons for wanting to find her.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-26
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Barefoot Gin Rei
Overview: A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still Ginrei notices that her China dress has gone missing, and she must solve this mystery quickly!
Genres: Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-20
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The Mighty Gin Rei
Overview: A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still A wild and crazy adventure involving Daisaku defecting to BF (here Blue Flower), lots of drag and the apparent drinking of a Shizuma drive.
Genres: Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-20
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Gin Rei's Blue Eyes
Overview: A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still Ginrei and Tetsugyu take a wild west trip into the desert to find something that is at least semi-serious.
Genres: Adventure Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-21
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Quiz Magic Academy: The Original Animation
Overview: There is a magical academy that is located on a floating island in the sky. This is about the students of one of the academy's classes, who's only chance not to fail the semester is to win a competition where they must show off their magic skills.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Quiz Magic Academy: The Original Animation 2
Overview: Following the destruction of the magical floating device, the Magic Academy falls to earth, but unfortunately lands on and breaks a demon seal, releasing hundreds of ancient demons into the forest around the academy. The teachers are barely keeping the demons away and are desperately searching for the pieces of the floating device, so to earn more magic stones, all of the students from Amelia's class decide to leave the academy (even though they were told not to) to find the missing pieces.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Overview: Follow Roxas through his days in Organization XIII as he searches for purpose in his life he was never meant to have. Will he find it in the Keyblade he wields? Or is the real key the fourteenth member of the Organization who slowly changes his life? Dive into the heart of the most sought-after secrets in the KINGDOM HEARTS storyline.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-14
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Coo of The Far Seas
Overview: After a storm hits their island, Yusuke (driving his jet-ski) finds a baby dinosaur. He show it to his dad, they keep it and call it Coo. But there are other parties interested in a 65 million year old creature...
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-19
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Tibetan Dog
Overview: Jiantan is a young boy who has to leave Xi'an after the death of his mother to go deep into the Tibetan prairies to start living with the father he barely remembers. His dad, LaGeBa, is a busy doctor who decided to depart from the city and reside in Tibet where he is the essential physician of the poor community he lives in. To help his father, Jiantan has to learn how to herd sheep. While trying to learn his new responsibility, he is saved by a stray gold-colored Tibetan Mastiff. Both Jiantan and the big dog help each other as they try to adjust to this new environment.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-15
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Guyver: Out of Control
Overview: One night, high school student Sho Fukamachi discovers a mysterious metal object. Then in a blinding flash of light, Sho finds that he has accidentally fused with the Guyver, a mecha of mysterious alien design. Now, to save his girlfriend, Mizuki Segawa, along with the entire world, Sho must become the Guyver to fight the Chronos Corporation and their biocreatures, called Zoanoids, who are hell-bent on world domination.
Genres: Horror Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-13
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