Masako Ikeda
Also Known As: 池田昌子, いけだ まさこ, イケダ マサコ, ماساکو ایکدا
Biography: Masako Ikeda (池田 昌子, Ikeda Masako, January 1, 1939) is a Japanese voice actress, actress and narrator from tokyo. She is represented by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, also known as Haikyō (俳協). Masako is most known for dubbing Audrey Hepburn and playing the role of Maetel in the anime Galaxy Express 999.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
Overview: In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.
Genres: Adventure Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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X: The Movie
Overview: It's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best friend) and Kotori, Fuma's little sister (and Kamui's possible girlfriend). He wants to protect them from all dangers, but destiny and fate are haunting Kamui and pulling in himself and his beloved childhood friends. It is his destiny and his sole decision to decide the fate of the world, no matter if he wants the role or not. Now it is a matter of if he will join the side of the Seven Seals and become the Dragon of Heaven to save mankind or join the Seven Angels and become the Dragon of Earth to destroy all civilization so the earth can heal itself from man's destruction.
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Silent Möbius
Overview: In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-07
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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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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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Ultraman Story
Overview: The film centers around Ultraman Taro growing up, and wanting to join the Ultra Brothers in battle. His family, however, thinks he is too young. Taro eventually proves himself after saving the 5 Ultra Brothers from the evil Grand King, created by Juda.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-14
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Aruhi watashi wa
Overview: The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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若い川の流れ
Overview: The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director and his wife, Misako recommends her colleague Tensuke Sone to Fusako, the managing director's daughter and best friend. Fusako and Sone meet at the executive director's Karuizawa villa, but for some reason Kensuke becomes angry when he learns that Misako is the one who recommended him...
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-14
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Seven Days War 2
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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Maegami Tarou
Overview: This is a folk-tale-like adventure story of an active boy on a quest for the Water of Life. The boy sets out on this quest after learning that the Water of Life is needed to make his village happy. On the way, he meets gods, demons... Soon, he discovers that the evil snake has stolen the Water, and he heads for the snake's palace. Defeating the snake is not easy since it has the Water of Life to revive itself. This boy - Maegami Tarou - continues his courageous quest in cooperation with various creatures and the gods.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-29
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Phoenix: Karma Chapter
Overview: The story of two men - sculptor genius Akanemaru, and former bandit Gao. Discover how the lives of the two men cross repeatedly throughout their lives, how they struggle with their own fate, and how they are forced to compete with each other for a great honour, when karma is the only prize.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Phoenix: Space Chapter
Overview: This is the third part of "The Phoenix" series of the Kadokawa Haruki Office Co., Ltd. version. It is an animation version of the original story by Tezuka Osamu that depicts the cruelty of love through the fate of spacemen destined to drift through the universe after losing their mother ship..
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-21
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Phoenix: Yamato Chapter
Overview: The story of a young prince and young princess from opposing tribes, as they struggle to deal with their lives and the hardship brought on by their position in their respective families.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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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 Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet
Overview: In the distant future, the planets are now connected with a massive galactic railway system. The Galaxy Express 999 has crash landed on a mysterious planet. On board are The Conductor, Killian, Maetel, and Tetsuro, a ten year-old street urchin with a heart of gold. Now it’s up to the SDF Sirius Platoon to rescue them before the Herise Time Mystery—a rift in the deep axis of time and space—repeats.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-30
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Escape Game ZERO
Overview: Japan in the near future. Six prisoners, male and female, in prison, who have signed a "Special Pardon Pledge" are taken to a secret room covered in concrete with no way out. They are brought to a secret room covered with concrete with no way out. There are monitors on the walls and several surveillance cameras on the ceiling. The room is lined with boxes of various sizes with locks on them. There is only one condition to pass the special pardon examination: to escape from the room by using the items in the boxes given to each person.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-27
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Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Overview: Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering, full-length theatrical conclusion to Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries will be revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear to speak of it.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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Galaxy Express 999 - Beyond the Diamond Ring
Overview: July 22, 2009. Galaxy Express 999 made a brief stop at Kagoshima on the day of total solar eclipse. Tetsuro gives a pass for the 999 to a boy named Kakeru dreaming of becoming an astronaut, saying "It's up to you whether you can use this pass or not". Now it's 2035, another total solar eclipse is expected in Japan, 26 years since the last one. What became of Kakeru...?
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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The Top of Mount Fuji
Overview: A touching drama based on the novel of the same name by Eikichi Hashimoto. In the 23rd year of the Meiji period, weather forecasts were rarely correct, and people endlessly suffered from typhoons and natural disasters. Nonaka Itaru, a private meteorologist, settled on Mount Fuji during the harsh winter, where it was thought impossible to overwinter, and opens up the future of high-altitude weather observations in Japan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Silent Möbius 2
Overview: After the death of her mother Katsumi wants nothing more to do with this horrible place known as Tokyo. Forced into staying an infuriated Katsumi returns to AMP HQ where chief Rally Cheyenne pleads with her to stay and join the team. However, her pleading falls on deaf ears as Katsumi exclaims that she wants nothing more to do with them, leaving to find another way home. Meanwhile the Demons taking over Tokyo begin their final move against humanity and the AMP. They realize that the key to opening their demon world lies within Katsumi. Her unwanted abilities mean everything to them and without her their plan would fail. The stage is set once again on the destroyed Tokyo Bay Bridge. Will Katsumi choose her destiny and defend her new found friend or will she fall to the weakness and despair within her?
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-18
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Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass
Overview: While travelling on the Galaxy Express with Maetel, Tetsuro befriends Claire who was forced by her mother to exchange her organic body for crystal glass. When danger threatens Tetsuro, Claire tries to help him.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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Aim for the Ace!
Overview: High school freshman Hiromi joins the tennis club because of her admiration for Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki is a senior, who's the best tennis player on the team and also nicknamed "Ochōfujin", ("Madame Butterfly"), because of her elegance on the tennis court. However, the new coach, Jin Munakata, wants the inexperienced Hiromi to play in a forthcoming tournament.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-08
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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Overview: Nils Holgersson is a young boy on a farm who is cruel to the animals. But when he catches the farm's little goblin it becomes one prank too many. He is magically shrunk and suddenly the farm animals are out for revenge. He flees on the back of the goose Morten and they join up with a flock of wild geese. Together they travel all over Sweden, with Nils hoping to find a way to become big again.
Genres: Animation Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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I'm All Yours
Overview: Rokuro, a penniless student living in a run-down apartment, gets a surprise visit by the beautiful and quite mysterious Mamiya Yu. For some reason she has hopelessly fallen for this no-good pervert. As it turns out she is actually the daughter of a very wealthy Japanese family. Considering Rokuro's background, he cannot believe his luck... but not all is as it seems. This rich family seems to be a lot more perverted than even Rokuro could have imagined...
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Ultraman Geed the Movie: Connect! The Wishes!!
Overview: The Giant Artificial Brain Gilbaris is trying to eliminate all intellectual life forms throughout the universe. Ultraman Geed confronts the harsh fate against a mighty enemy who withstands the power of Ultra Warriors' light. Ultraman Orb, Jugglus Juggler, and Ultraman Zero rush to the crisis! And the heated feelings inside Riku awakens Geed's Ultimate form - Ultimate Final!
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Kitty-Cat Fantasia
Overview: "Shiro" is a black cat who loves her family very much. She loves them so much she wants to help them out in times of need and trouble…but it’s difficult to do this if she’s just a cat. So one night, she wishes on the moon to make her able to help, and the next day, she has turned into a human girl.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy
Overview: Tetsuro believed he was freeing the Earth from the clutches of the Metanoid Empire’s tyranny. Yet one year after his return, Tetsuro is a prisoner of a new tyrant, and this one’s human! However, Maetel and the 999 swoop into the boy’s rescue. With his freedom, gun, and trusty hat returned to him, Tetsuro reaffirms his desire to save his home. But a new darkness is rising to swallow the light, and one of its agents has him in her sights. Before the train can depart for a new destination, Tetsuro will have to face the deadly knight Helmazaria!
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-07
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Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Hikari Saga - SAGA 1: Arb's Tragedy
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Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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Fairy King
Overview: Jack has moved to Hokkaido to get treatment for an illness, but he's lonely and unhappy. One night a man on a horse rides through his window to help him. For a reason he doesn't understand, Jack instantly knows the man's name and feels they've met somewhere before. The man, Cu Chulainn, tells Jack to open the moonlight shadow window, which leads him to Nymphidia, the world of Midsummer Night's Dream, whose inhabitants are waiting for a new Fairy King.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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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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Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth
Overview: Akira is just another normal kid in modern-day Tokyo, until an old friend of his, Ryo, shows up and turns his world upside down. Akira learns that there is an upcoming war of demons on humanity and he has just been enlisted for a major tour of duty. But the only way to fight a demon is with their power, so Akira and Ryo risk a dangerous ceremony in an attempt to create humanity's only hope: the powerful Devilman.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Toward the Terra
Overview: A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!!
Overview: A remake of episodes 12-13 of the TV series, the 999 arrives on a planet where the entire populace has been turned to stone. The one person still alive, a warrior, attacks Tetsuro and steals his pass, hoping to use it to escape and find a cure for his lover.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveler Emeraldas
Overview: A remake of episode 22 of the TV series, the 999 is attacked by the pirate ship Queen Emeraldas, which forces the train to a pirate planet. There Tetsuro and Maetel are captured by the pirate Emeraldas, a caped woman who seeks to switch her body with Maetel's.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-03
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Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother?!!
Overview: A remake of episodes 51-52 of the TV series, the 999 crashes in a large sentient blob along with another ship. The crew tries to save the ship's pilot, a blue haired woman named Artemis, before the Galaxy Railways headquarters gets ready to blow up the blob.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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The Heroic Elegy of Confucius
Overview: Born in the Chinese state of Lu in 551 B.C., Confucius is raised by his mother after his father dies when he is only three. He marries at 19 and enters the service of the local nobility. At 32, he becomes tutor to the Prince of Lu's children, eventually becoming a politician at 51. His career peaks are the roles of Lu's justice minister and eventually prime minister. The land prospers for four years, but Confucius grows disenchanted with court intrigues. For the following 12 years, he wanders the neighboring states, offering advice to their rulers.
Genres: Animation Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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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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Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōoku (Hi) Akazu no Ma
Overview: In the final days of the Edo shogunate, a government commander enters Edo Castle to inspect the Ōoku. Ignoring warnings, he steps into a forbidden room where, 200 years before, Lady Oyuki, a favored concubine, was forced to commit suicide by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi over a suspected affair. Consumed by vengeance, her spirit continues to haunt all those involved in the tragedy.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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Miracle of Love: Doctor Norman's Story
Overview: Animated film.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-24
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