Takako Kitagawa

Long Vacation

overview: Minami who is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Asakura, on their wedding day. She later meets Sena, Asakura's ex-roommate and a pianist, and lives with him as she has no other place to stay. What will happen to her during this long vacation?

original_name: ロングバケーション

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Takako Kitagawa

biography: Takako Kitagawa (Tokushima, Japó, 24 d’agost de 1954) és una actriu japonesa.

also_known_as:
北川たか子
Takako Kitagawa
北河多香子

title: Zero Woman: Final Mission

overview: A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.

original_title: Zero WOMAN　警視庁０課の女

title: Noriko's Dinner Table

overview: A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

character: Kumiko's Mother

original_title: 紀子の食卓

title: Secret Wish

overview: A high school girl yearns to have her first sexual encounter.

character: Chie Aikawa

original_title: ひめごころ

title: The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village

overview: Tarao’s services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with an eerie mask of a devil.

character: Kiyo

original_title: 多羅尾伴内　鬼面村の惨劇

title: A Portrait of Shunkin

overview: Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.

character: お種

original_title: 春琴抄

title: Halloween Nightmare 2

overview: High school student Nanami lives in Tokyo, Japan. She waits for Halloween because she enjoys dressing up in costumes with her friends. One day, Nanami’s father tells her about a mysterious serial murder case that takes place year on Halloween. Her father works as the chief editor at an occult magazine. At first, Nanami doesn't care about the serial murders, but frightening incidents keep taking place around her.

original_title: ハロウィンナイトメア2

title: Angel of Darkness 3

overview: Manami, the sole survivor of Angel of Darkness 2, is rushed to hospital where she slips into a deep sleep. A priest correctly suspects that the demon (now referred to as an Injuu) is inside Manami's body, but by the time he is able to confirm his theory, the creature has already moved on. As before, the tentacled beastie passes from host to host (by thrusting its slimy appendages into its victims' orifices), eventually ending up inside goody-goody schoolgirl Fumie, who does her best 'Linda Blair' impersonation for a while, before the priest inevitably turns up to save the day.

original_title: 淫獣教師 実写版 Ⅲ

title: Hell Riders

overview: The fourth installment in the Bosozoku film series starring Koichi Iwaki.

original_title: 爆発！７５０ｃｃ族

title: Halloween Nightmare

overview: A magazine publicist investigates an unsolved murder case that occurs on Halloween every year.

original_title: ハロウィンナイトメア

title: Tattooed Flower Vase

overview: After losing her husband, a traditional puppet artisan has lived a life without love. However, her relationship with her daughter and the arrival of some dangerous acquaintances inevitably spark new curiosities in her mind and body.

character: Takako Yoshino

original_title: 花芯の刺青 熟れた壷

title: Rope and Boys

overview: Yuji is an university student living with his older brother. When he runs into an old acquaintance on the street, the two begin an affair and Yuji ends up getting drawn into the world of S&M clubs, where men put up elaborate and decadent shows for their customers.

original_title: 縄と男たち

title: Late Bloom: Campus Erotica

original_title: キャンパス・エロチカ　熟れて開く

title: The Story of a Geisha

overview: In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

original_title: らしゃめん

place_of_birth: Tokushima, Japan

title: Zero Woman: Final Mission

title: Noriko's Dinner Table

title: Secret Wish

title: The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village

original_title: 多羅尾伴内　鬼面村の惨劇

title: A Portrait of Shunkin

title: Halloween Nightmare 2

title: Angel of Darkness 3

title: Hell Riders

title: Halloween Nightmare

title: Tattooed Flower Vase

title: Rope and Boys

title: Late Bloom: Campus Erotica

original_title: キャンパス・エロチカ　熟れて開く

title: The Story of a Geisha


Sim Cheol-jong

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

title: Duelist

overview: Detective Nam-soon goes undercover with her partner Detective Ahn to investigate the counterfeit money. She discovers that one loyal henchman, Sad Eyes, a beautiful swordsman with a pale, blank face, is related to the truth. Nam-soon and Sad Eyes confront each other in a series of duels and become confused between love and obligation to duty.

character: Machookji

original_title: 형사

original_language: ko

title: Assassination

overview: In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.

character: Commander

original_title: 암살

title: Nowhere to Hide

overview: Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.

character: Detective Joo

original_title: 인정사정 볼 것 없다

title: Fantastic Parasuicides

overview: Fantastic Parasuicides is an omnibus film consisting of three short films that come together under the common theme of suicide. The three stories are Hanging Tough,  Fly Away Chicken and Happy Birthday by indie directors Chang-ho Cho, Sung-ho Kim and Soo-young Park.

character: Tae-mi (segment "Happy Birthday")

original_title: 판타스틱 자살소동

title: Jazz Bar Hiroshima

overview: Gun-woo is an intern in the surgery department who pursues a moment of pleasure as an escape from the weight of reality. He expresses his life's discontent by playing a saxophone at 'A Very Small World' and indulging in physical play. It is a place for the misfits of society, anarchists, Vietnam veterans, bums, artists and performers. Hasegawa Sayuri, a reporter for a TV company in Japan comes to Korea to do a story called '47 Years of Bitterness of Bomb Victims. She visits Gun-woo's teacher, Professor Song, to investigate victims of Hiroshima atomic bomb in Korea. There, she and Gun-woo run into each other.

original_title: 째즈빠 히로시마

title: The Grand Heist

overview: Ice suddenly becomes a more valuable commodity during the Joseon Dynasty and a gang of eleven professionals are assigned to protect the market situation from irresponsible people.

character: Tatoo

original_title: 바람과 함께 사라지다

title: Duelist

media_type: movie

title: Assassination

title: Nowhere to Hide

title: Fantastic Parasuicides

title: Jazz Bar Hiroshima

title: The Grand Heist

known_for_department: Acting


Katsuhisa Yamada

biography: Genesis Climber Mospeada Freelancer. Mospeada was the first work which he served as Chief Director for. Considered by himself and others as primarily a fan of SF, his work is also very heavily SF-minded.

Genesis Climber MOSPEADA

job: Director

overview: In the year 2050, an alien race, invade and successfully conquer the Earth. Years later the inhabitants of Mars Colony send out a desperate Liberation Force to try and reclaim their lost home world. Stig Bernard, finds himself on Earth, gathering a handful of resistance fighters and attempting to beat them.

department: Directing

original_name: 機甲創世記モスピーダ

original_language: ja

OZ

overview: 2021, 31 years after World War III: bionics genius Filicia Epstein arrives in Sabano and Sergent Mutou is ordered to protect her. Searching for her only brother, Lyon, Filicia encounters 1019, a cybernoid, who directs them to the phantom city, OZ, a shelter created by Lyon.

original_name: OZ

Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel

overview: In the Ariahan village, on her 15th birthday, Tiala receives a red jewel from the elder Yogi. The jewel is the key to awaken the Great Dragon, whose blood grants eternal life. Due to this, the demon Baramos kidnaps Tiala. His childhood friend, Abel tries unsuccessfully to save her. He is given a blue jewel, the counterpart of the jewel that Tiala received, that can seal the Great Dragon and embarks on a mission to rescue Tiala.

original_name: ドラゴンクエスト～勇者アベル伝説～

name: The Enemy's the Pirates!: The Cats' Banquet

original_name: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

Barbapapa

overview: The adventures of Barbapapa and Barbama and their seven children, where they search for their place in the world, while helping humans and animals.

original_name: Les Barbapapa

origin_country: US FR

original_language: fr

Super Dimension Fortress Macross

job: Storyboard Artist

overview: After a mysterious spaceship crashes on Earth a fleet of spaceships belonging to a race of aliens known as the Zentradi descend upon Earth sparking an intergalactic war.

department: Art

original_name: 超時空要塞マクロス

Ghost Hound

overview: In an isolated region of Kyushu lies the town of Suiten. Though seeming small and modest, Suiten is not a picturesque place for a vacation, unless it is from the “Unseen World”. Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, three boys with traumatic pasts, learn to let their souls cross between the two parallel worlds. However, the Unseen World is no mere copy of the real Apparent World. The Unseen World is the home of ghosts, but changes are now allowing the souls of the dead to pass over into the Apparent World, with unpredictable effects. Follow the journey of Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, as they cross between the two worlds, trying to unravel a great mystery.

original_name: 神霊狩／GHOST HOUND

Yawara!

overview: Inokuma Yawara is just another young high school girl. Well, not quite - for Yawara is being raised by her grandfather, 7th dan Judo master Inokuma Jigorou, to be Japan's great hope for the women's Judo competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. All the same, Yawara just wants to live a normal life...

original_name: YAWARA!

Record of Lodoss War

overview: Born in battle, baptized in fire, it's kingdoms have been ravaged by war for thousands of years.  Now, an evil stirs, an ancient goddess of destruction awakened by an evil wizard.  A party of six is forged to defeat this threat, or die in the attempt.  Join Parn, the young fighter, as he leads his warriors into the heart of a land where dragons rule and evil holds sway over the earth.  Six swords are now drawn against this darkness.  The war for Lodoss has begun!

original_name: ロードス島戦記

Lupin the 3rd

overview: Follow the exciting adventures of Arsene Lupin III, the grandson of the world's greatest thief, Arsene Lupin. Together with Daisuke Jigen, Goemon Ishikawa and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he carries out the greatest robberies of all time, all the while evading the control of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.

original_name: ルパン三世

The Enemy's the Pirates!

overview: Apulo (a cat-like space alien with the ability to lock a human's emotions) and Latell work for the Division of Space Piracy (or DSP for short). The two of them are extremely destructive in their solving of DSP cases. They are attempting to stop Youmei the space pirate from exploiting Computer Aided Thinking for his own nefarious plans.

original_name: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

job: Storyboard

department: Writing

original_name: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: CN

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: Frosty's Winter Wonderland

overview: Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but his promise is kept when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season, and decides to return.

original_title: Frosty's Winter Wonderland

original_language: en

title: Outlanders

overview: In the midst of a violent invasion of Earth by unknown alien forces, photo-journalist Wakatsuki Tetsuya comes across a scantily-clad alien woman, cutting a swath of death through the Terran ranks with her sword. After a chaotic struggle, Tetsuya is knocked unconscious, only to awaken aboard her starship. To his surprise, she turns out to be Kahm, the invaders' princess - and she has picked Tetsuya for a starring role in her upcoming wedding. As the groom....

original_title: アウトランダーズ

title: The Legend of Kentauros

overview: The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race.

original_title: ケンタウロスの伝説

title: Megazone 23 II

overview: The Dezalg have returned with a new, horrible weapon and unleashed it on Megazone 23's defenses. Believing their salvation is also in new weapons, B.D. is again bent on breaking the EVE's final protection level.Full control of Megazone 23 would mean unfettered weapons development. Shogo, meanwhile, has tried to return to a 'normal' life; Hanging out with his biker gang, "Trash" and his girlfriend, Yui. But, his convictions about the Megazone's shadow government policies haven't changed and when EVE calls for his help, he discovers where the Garland bike has been hidden. It's showdown time for Shogo and B.D., Trash and the military, as well as the Dezalg and Megazone. However, EVE's final secret, A.D.A.M., may mean no one will survive.

original_title: メガゾーン23 PART II 秘密く・だ・さ・い

job: Animation Director

title: The Flight of Dragons

overview: The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so the green wizard, Carolinus, decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.

department: Visual Effects

original_title: The Flight of Dragons

title: Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling

overview: Lupika, an alien princess, is in love with a tofu seller. To make him love her too (at least, announce his love. He obviously fears the social taboo of a tofu vendor marrying a princess), she needs to get a love potion, which is in a certain temple. Legend has it that the only person that can obtain this love potion is the most lecherous man in the universe. That man turns out to be Ataru Moroboshi. Lupika kidnaps Ataru to make him get the potion, and Lum and her friends go out to search for Ataru.

original_title: うる星やつら いつだってマイ・ダーリン

title: 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.

original_title: 妖精王

title: Junk Boy

overview: Overconfident 23-year-old Ryouhei somehow lucks into a job at the lucrative skin mag Potato Boy, with his only qualification being an abnormally high sex drive. Immediately smitten with the publication's prestigious editor Yuki (and just about every other female colleague), Ryouhei shows a libidinous instinct that could take Potato Boy to the next level — if he can ever take the job seriously.

original_title: ジャンクボーイ

title: The Flight of Dragons

overview: After the original run of the television series, an OAV music video titled Genesis Climber Mospeada: Love Live Alive was specially (mostly due to demands of hardcore Mospeada fans) released in Japan in September 1985. The music video consisted of both old and new footage. The story of Love Live Alive chronicled the events after the ending of the original Mospeada, featuring Yellow Belmont as the main character. The music video focused on Yellow's concert and also on his flashback of past events.

title: Devil Hunter Yohko

overview: Yohko Mano is introduced. Yohko goes about her daily life; day dreaming about a cute guy named Hideki. Yohko learns that her family has a long history of being devil hunters. But this time the demons decide to take out the next devil hunter before she can fight back. After a failed attempt to take Yohko's virginity (so that she can't become a devil hunter), the demons decide to use Hideki as bait. Yohko must become the 108th devil hunter and rescue the man of her dreams. The English-dubbed "Special Edition" of this episode restores approximately 30 seconds of assorted footage that was cut from the final Japanese print of the film.

title: The Last Unicorn

overview: A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

original_title: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

title: OZ

overview: Oz is set in a post-apocalyptic near-future, following World War III. Much of the world has been reduced to desert. The surviving population has fragmented into many nations, and they're all fighting over the planet's declining resources. The only hope seems to be the legendary Oz, a lost laboratory founded by eminent scientists. Filicia Epstein, the surviving daughter of a family of prominent scientists, sets out with a mercenary named Yo Muto on a quest to find Oz and, she hopes, her missing brother Lyon, who is rumored to be there. Filicia and Muto get a lot more than they bargained for.

title: The Stingiest Man in Town

overview: An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.

title: Robotech: Love Live Alive

overview: It is the year 2031, as the spores of the Flower of Life spread over the remains of the SDF-1 and SDF-2, the Invid land out of Hyperspace, on a head-on collision with the Earth. They crash on the spot, quickly turning it into their massive hive, later to be called Reflex Point. In a matter of moments, the Invid take control of the devastated planet.

title: Frosty's Winter Wonderland

title: Outlanders

title: The Legend of Kentauros

title: Megazone 23 II

original_title: メガゾーン23 PART II 秘密く・だ・さ・い

title: The Flight of Dragons

title: Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling

original_title: うる星やつら いつだってマイ・ダーリン

title: Fairy King

title: Junk Boy

title: The Flight of Dragons

title: Devil Hunter Yohko

original_title: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

title: OZ

title: The Last Unicorn

title: The Stingiest Man in Town

title: Robotech: Love Live Alive

Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel

original_name: ドラゴンクエスト～勇者アベル伝説～

original_name: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

The Enemy's the Pirates!

original_name: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～

original_name: 敵は海賊 ～猫たちの饗宴～


Yusaku Saotome

Anime-Gataris

overview:
After dreaming about an anime she used to watch as a child, Minoa Asagaya could not forget a particularly memorable scene. However, despite her best efforts, she cannot recall the name of the show. Due to this, Minoa asks for help from her fellow classmates at Sakaneko High School. Her conversation is overheard by Arisu Kamiigusa, the most popular and wealthy girl in class who is also a hardcore otaku. Yet even with her vast knowledge, Arisu does not recognize the show.

After discovering that there isn't an anime club at their school, Minoa and Arisu create the Anime Research Club, as they may obtain the answer to Minoa's mystery if they gather people who share the same interest. Thus, Minoa is exposed to a bizarre new world—the world of anime!

original_name: アニメガタリズ

Glass Mask

overview: It seems like a fairy tale story. Plucked from obscurity by the legendary actress Chigusa Tsukikage, 13-year-old Maya Kitajima is given the chance of a lifetime and the opportunity to study at a legendary acting school. She'll also find an archrival, however, and Ayumi Himekawa is as determined to be the greatest actress of her generation as Maya is. To succeed, each girl must conquer every acting challenge placed in front of her and then push even further as they aim for the same ultimate goal: the role of the Crimson Goddess in the play of the same name, a part created by Chigusa herself. All the world is the stage as the ultimate dramatic rivalry begins in the original anime classic.

original_name: ガラスの仮面

Black Widow

overview: A camping trip takes a turn for the wild when the group discovers a mystery mansion in the woods. Excitement turns to thrills of terror as people begin to disappear. Too late, they realize they are trapped in the clutches of a mysterious woman. Who is that woman and will the group of campers be able to escape the remote mansion?

original_name: 黒姫 -桎梏の館-

Actually, I Am...

overview: Asahi Kuromine is a high school student who supposedly cannot keep a secret. One day he spots his crush Yoko Shiragami, unfurling a large pair of wings from her back. She explains to him that she is a vampire and is only able to attend a normal school on the condition that no one discover her true identity. Asahi swears to keep her secret but finds it hard to maintain seeing as how Yoko herself is an airhead and Asahi's friend Mikan keeps bullying the two of them.

original_name: 実は私は

Sweetness & Lightning

overview: Kohei is a single father and high school teacher who lives with his only daughter. A chance encounter brings him together with Kotori, one of his students. The three of them start to meet together to make meals. None of them know how to cook, but they all love delicious food!

original_name: 甘々と稲妻

Punch Line

overview: High schooler Yūta Iridatsu has experienced “astral projection” i.e. his spirit has been separated from his body. He woke up in a mansion named Koraikan and met a cat spirit named Chiranosuke, who told him “You must find the Sacred Tome of Koraikan in order to return to your physical body.” While searching through corridors of Koraikan, Yūta bumped into underpants of its female residents, and doing so would, eh, create some big trouble for planet Earth.

original_name: パンチライン

Montana Jones

overview: The series takes place in the 1930s and is about the adventures of Montana Jones, who goes treasure hunting with his cousin Alfred Jones and the beautiful reporter Melissa Thorn. They visit real locations and cities like the Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, Istanbul or Easter Island. Frequently they cross paths with Lord Zero - a rich, eccentric art lover and master thief.

original_name: モンタナ・ジョーンズ

Dear Brother

overview: It’s Nanako’s first day at Seiran Academy, a prestigious all-girl’s high school famous for its exclusive and elegant “Sorority.” Only ten members will be accepted this year, and competition is fierce! Despite seeming fairly unremarkable on the surface, Nanako is selected as a member – instantly making her a target for her jealous and angry classmates. But the bullying doesn’t stop Nanako from forming friendships with the three most popular students, and even falling in love.

original_name: おにいさまへ…

The Little Lies We All Tell

overview: What do an alien, a rogue ninja, a girl with superpowers, and a disguised boy have in common? They’re all friends hiding as 8th graders at an all-girls school. Though none of them are aware of each other’s secret, their lies keep their friendship tight. If this wild bunch isn’t enough, their classroom is in danger of being destroyed…oh and Earth too!

original_name: 4人はそれぞれウソをつく

Prayers

job: Series Director

overview: Prayers is an anime set in the year 2014 where the young of Japan have rebelled against the government for segregating Shibuya and declared themselves to be independent of Japan. In the city, there are special people called "prayers" who fight in literal band battles in which the power of their songs can incapacitate or even kill rival contestants.

original_name: プレイヤーズ

name: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War

overview: To protect her hometown from the Erebonian Empire and to distinguish herself from her grandfather’s disloyalty, Lavie enlists in the Northern Jaegers where she’ll do whatever it takes to carry out the mission. Now this rule breaker must form a platoon to embark on a dangerous recon mission into enemy lines—will her mission be a success?

original_name: The Legend of Heroes 閃の軌跡 Northern War

Handyman Saitou in Another World

overview: Handyman Saito has never been anyone special. All his life, he’s had average grades, ordinary athletic skill, a commonplace job… But his unremarkable path takes a turn when he wakes up in another world. Here, warriors, wizards, and elves accompany him on quests delving deep into dungeons, and Saito realizes for the first time what it’s like to be needed. After all, who other than the handyman could be trusted to open locked treasure chests or repair his allies’ equipment? Beginning with a simple “thank you,” this is the story of an ordinary person’s fulfilling life.

original_name: 便利屋斎藤さん、異世界に行く

Junk Boy

overview: Yamazaki Ryouhei is a cool 23-year-old, with an extremely high sex drive. A smooth talker with the lady-killing eyes and a winning smile, on his never-ending search for the perfect woman. When Yamazaki catches the eye of the beautiful senior editor, Oda Yuki, you know he is not just going far, he is going all the way.

original_name: JUNK BOY

Rosario + Vampire

overview: An ordinary high school boy fails to get into any private academy except one — which happens to be populated by supernatural creatures disguised as humans. To survive, he has to pretend that he is one of them and blend in.

original_name: ロザリオとバンパイア

name: Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside

overview: After being betrayed by the Hero’s party, Red hopes to start anew by opening an apothecary in a small town. He wants to keep his past life secret, but it won’t be easy...especially when a beautiful adventurer from his past asks to move in.

original_name: 真の仲間じゃないと勇者のパーティーを追い出されたので、辺境でスローライフすることにしました

Zillion

overview: On the planet Maris in the year 2387 three teen soldiers fight back against invading aliens.

original_name: 赤い光弾ジリオン

Fairy Tail

overview: Lucy is a 17-year-old girl, who wants to be a full-fledged mage. One day when visiting Harujion Town, she meets Natsu, a young man who gets sick easily by any type of transportation. But Natsu isn't just any ordinary kid, he's a member of one of the world's most infamous mage guilds: Fairy Tail.

original_name: FAIRY TAIL

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

also_known_as:
Yuusaku Saotome
五月女有作

title: Outlanders

character: Soldier A (voice)

job: Second Unit Director

title: Outlanders

title: Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring

overview: In the space history year of 0375, the killing Plan of Esper and the Imperial Plan met with failure. Run, who had executed these plans because of his partiality for his own self-made computer named Elena, lived together with Locke and Near under their protection. At the same time, Cassandra and Barcov of the Hackers netted the widely dispersed computers in each corner of space, and they succeeded in reviving some abandoned programs. This was the federal administrative computer, Elena. She tried to start the previous Imperial Plan again. When Locke found out about it, he set off to stop it. At the same time, the federal administration which detected something abnormal, also started to move. Involving Run and Near who chased Locke, the confusion was expanding to the entire Galaxy...

original_title: 超人ロック～ミラーリング～

title: Delinquent in Drag

overview: Does being the only guy in an all-girl school sound like paradise? It might be, if the girls knew you were a guy, but to stay in school, teenage brawler Banji can't let can't let anyone find out he isn't just another pretty female face. Not only is he at the bottom of the social pecking order, he must also conceal his masculinity from classmate Otoko, who's stolen his heart, while avoiding the many delinquent gangs of girls who threaten to expose his less-than-feminine charms. Oh, and it's actually co-ed, so...

original_title: おいら女蛮

title: Gall Force: Eternal Story

overview: Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.

title: Boyfriend

overview: Takatou Masaki is the second youngest of four sons, and seemingly a delinquent by nature. His hot temper has put a wedge between himself and his strict father, gotten him kicked out of one school, and tossed him at a school notoriously horrible for the one thing he's truly good at, basketball. A chance encounter with the willful Yuuki Kanako may serve as a catalyst for change, as the indefinable connection she feels with him draws them together...

title: Prayers

overview: It is the year of 2014, Shibuya is independent from Japan, and it becomes an independent nation. It is a town of chaos where only young people are living. The life necessity, such as electricity, water, and food are transported by the pipelines out from the Shibuya. The pipelines are running like cobweb in the sky, the young people in Shibuya looked like bugs trapped in the cobweb.

title: Black Widow

overview: An erotic camping trip takes a turn for the wild when Seiya discovers a mystery mansion in the woods. Excitement turns to thrills of terror as her friends begin to disappear. Too late, they realize they are trapped in the clutches of the Black Widow, a deadly temptress who lures unsuspecting victims into a web of lust, intrigue, and murder.

title: Outlanders

title: Outlanders

title: Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring

original_title: 超人ロック～ミラーリング～

title: Delinquent in Drag

title: Gall Force: Eternal Story

title: Boyfriend

title: Prayers

title: Black Widow

The Little Lies We All Tell

original_name: 4人はそれぞれウソをつく

Handyman Saitou in Another World

original_name: 便利屋斎藤さん、異世界に行く


Hideaki Sena

job: Novel

title: Parasite Eve

overview: A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.

original_title: パラサイト・イヴ

job: Author

title: The Computer Revolution: The Birth of the Most Powerful and Fastest Brains

overview: Near future Tokyo, when augmented reality and robots have become ubiquitous, pervading almost every aspect of city life. Mako a high school senior navigates the vagaries of daily life. (Hideaki Sena's Anime Short)

original_title: コンピューター革命 最強×最速の頭脳誕生

title: Parasite Eve

original_title: コンピューター革命 最強×最速の頭脳誕生

known_for_department: Writing


Ayako Omura

biography:
Ayako Omura (born December 19, 1984) is a Japanese actress, television personality, and model affiliated with Ito Company.

During the 1990s, Ayako Omura made a name for herself by appearing in various projects such as the TV drama "Yokai Newspaper" and the film "New Toilet's Hanako-san," where she acted alongside Yuko Nomura, Ai Maeda, and Maya Hamaoka. Together, they became known as the "Four Heavenly Kings of Chaidoru" and even formed a group called "Pretty Chat," which also released music.

After graduating from Horikoshi High School and later from Seijo University, Ayako Omura decided to pursue a serious acting career. She recalls that her dedication to acting truly began with the drama "The Ugly Duckling," where she received advice from the director to perform the kind of acting she truly wanted to do. This experience led her to actively engage with acting and earn praise from the director, ultimately sparking her realization that "acting is fascinating."

In addition, she shared a close friendship with Yuka Nomura, her fellow "Chaidoru" member, and they were classmates at university. They both participated in a club called the "European Culture Study Group," where they presented research on interior design and European films.

Time Limit Investigator

overview:
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed.

Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby.

So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.

original_name: 時効警察

Vision - The Woman Who Can See Murder

overview: One day, struggling model Kurusu Reina suddenly has the special vision to see images of murderers come to her mind. Asano Kazama, a First Investigative Division detective, pushed into temporary suspension because of a case, unluckily meets Reina. He makes use of her unique ability to solve difficult cases.

character: Yoshioka Narumi

original_name: VISION　殺しが見える女

Waltz of Her Heart

overview: Brought up in an orphanage, Haoto, a young blind girl, was teased and discriminated against, and the only things she enjoyed were playing with a puppy at the pet shop, and playing the piano. Even though she is blind, Haoto had an amazing talent that even she didn’t realize. A talent called “perfect pitch”. She could play any song on the piano after hearing it only once. Finally, someone noticed her talent. His name was Shinya Minazuki, and he was also a lonely pianist who was brought up in an orphanage. Haoto, about to start a new life in a world unknown to her, comes to be entangled in an intense dispute between the siblings of the rich Minazuki family over who will inherit their prestigious music school. What will happen to the gifted Haoto? This drama, which evolves around beautiful piano music, is full of love, suspense, and mystery.

original_name: 仔犬のワルツ

Kagerou no Tsuji

overview: Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and successor to a powerful family in Bungo. He has came back to Edo, where he lived for a while for swordplay training with his two best friends, after a tragedy in the three's home domain—both of the two friends died, one of them killed by Iwane by command of the domain lord's chief retainer. Iwane left his home for Edo, leaving behind his fiancée, a sister of the friend he killed. Eventually, Iwane detects the conspiracy behind the deaths of the two friends and struggles to reform his domain.

character: Oshima

original_name: 陽炎の辻〜居眠り磐音 江戸双紙〜

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

overview: A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

character: Moegi Tatsumi

original_name: 金田一少年の事件簿

title: Parasite Eve

character: Mariko Anzai

title: In a Corner

overview: Two schoolgirls, Hisayo Yoshida and Kanna Murakami, who are tasked with caring for their school's pet rabbits, are sweeping the cages and feeding the animals when Kanna cuts her hand, so Hisayo leaves her alone to go get bandages. (A prequel to the first version of Ju-on, 2000.)

character: Hisayo Yoshida

original_title: 片隅

title: Hanako of the Toilet

overview: When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.

character: Etsuko Mamiya

original_title: 新生 トイレの花子さん

title: Vampire Island

overview: Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends.

original_title: 彼岸島

title: Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

overview: A school teacher visits the home of a boy who's been absent from school for a long period of time, unaware of the horrific tragedy which occurred in the boy's household many years ago.

character: Mitsuko Yoshizaki

original_title: 呪怨－終わりの始まり－

title: Coffee White

overview: The old-fashioned pure cafe "Moa", which is loved by the locals, had another face called the detective agency. "More" was opened by the current owner, Michiru, the mother of Yumihiko, and Michiru has solved various problems as a detective. After Michiru's death, her brother Goro and her son Yumihiko took over the store, and the detective business was contracted by a part-timer Monaco, which was once helped by Michiru. One day, Monaco, who was consulted by the mother of the luxury club "Sun" about a malicious customer, successfully solves the case with an intelligent arrangement, but the client stops the opportunity and the situation gradually becomes complicated and serious. C) Film "Coffee in White" Production Committee

character: Shie Suzukawa

original_title: コーヒーはホワイトで

title: Matched

overview: This film revolves around the perils of a dating app. A single woman is recommended an app, however the person she matches with is different to his photo. At the same time, a serial killer is stalking his latest victims also using the same app.

character: Young Michiko

original_title: マッチング

title: 横山秀夫サスペンス「第三の時効」

original_title: 横山秀夫サスペンス「第三の時効」

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan

title: Parasite Eve

title: In a Corner

title: Hanako of the Toilet

title: Vampire Island

title: Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

title: Coffee White

title: Matched

title: 横山秀夫サスペンス「第三の時効」

original_title: 横山秀夫サスペンス「第三の時効」

Time Limit Investigator

media_type: tv

Vision - The Woman Who Can See Murder

original_name: VISION　殺しが見える女

Kagerou no Tsuji

original_name: 陽炎の辻〜居眠り磐音 江戸双紙〜


Eiji Bandō

biography: Eiji Bandō is a Japanese television entertainer, former baseball player and actor. Eiji Bandō professionally played for the Chunicihi Dragons until his retirement in 1970 when he became a baseball commentator for Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Corporation. He made a break-out in Television in 1985 in To Kinyobi no Tsumatachi on Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. From there he had roles in several films, including Buddies, 47 Ronin, and Poppoya, all co-starring Ken Takakura.

Don't worry!

original_name: ドンウォリー!

新・ミナミの帝王

original_name: 新・ミナミの帝王

金曜日には花を買って

original_name: 金曜日には花を買って

Eenyobo

overview: A woman works hard to become a good doctor even though she is separated from her husband.

character: 朝倉源太郎

original_name: ええにょぼ

京都・琵琶湖・神戸・大阪へ魅惑のトラベルミステリー

original_name: 京都・琵琶湖・神戸・大阪へ魅惑のトラベルミステリー

title: 47 Ronin

overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.

original_title: 四十七人の刺客

title: Railroad Man

overview: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

character: Mailman

original_title: 鉄道員

title: Buddies

overview: Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

character: Mizuta

original_title: あ・うん

title: Yukon

overview: Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driver at a hearse transportation company. One day, a young man visits the company and asks Takayuki to transport the body of his fiancé, Sawa, who had unexpectedly passed away, to her hometown in a rural area of Takamatsu, Shikoku. Takayuki decides to go to Shikoku with the young man, However, the man disappears when leaving to take a call while they are stopped at a rest area near Setoo Bridge. Left alone, Takayuki arrives at Sawa's home village after much searching. He then tells Sawa's bereaved family about the situation at her parents' house. There, he learns of the tradition of posthumous marriage, or 'Yukon', from the village elder...

character: Goro Takahashi

original_title: Yukon

title: Father

overview: A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

character: Kikutaro Higure

original_title: 父

title: Faraway Heaven

overview: Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.

original_title: 天国はまだ遠く

title: Stormy Night

overview: After hiding together in an abandoned barn one stormy night, wolf Gabu and goat Mei pledge to be secret friends, despite being natural enemies. They must overcome hardship and persecution in hopes of finding another forest where they can be together in peace.

character: Elder Goat (voice)

original_title: あらしのよるに

title: Hutch the Honeybee

overview: Hutch the Honey Bee and friends set on an adventure to find Hutch's missing Queen Bee Mother, whom he lost during a surprise attack by a group of Hornets. In the process Hutch makes friends with various other animals. At a town called Sepiatown he even befriends Amy, a kindhearted human girl who can talk with insects ...

character: Koganenash

original_title: 劇場版 昆虫物語 みつばちハッチ 勇気のメロディ

title: Neck

overview: Tomokazu Shudo has his first ever crush on Sugina Mayama, a senior student. Tomokazu has troubles confessing his feelings to the popular student, but one day, he is invited to the research lab where Sugina Mayama works. Tomokazu hopes to use this meeting to express his true feelings for her. To Tomokazu's surprise, when he arrives he first sees a big wooden box in the middle of the dark lab. Sugina tells Tomokazu that he looks scared and then proceeds to push Tomokazu into the box!

character: Professor Qingtao

original_title: NECK ネック

title: Madadayo

overview: In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

original_title: まあだだよ

title: The man who became a billionaire.

overview: Everyone has the potential to become a millionaire! A super success story based on a true story!  Childhood friends Tetsuya (Yakumaru), Akio (Sakaue) and Kazumi (Ikuta). Tetsuya marries Saori (Watanabe), the daughter of a wealthy family, in order to realise his big ambition of becoming a billionaire. His successes and achievements are actually guided by Saori's lover, the tycoon financier Sendo (Takarada). Sendo crushes every attempt by Tetsuya to break up with Saori and make a fresh start. Devastated, Tetsuya attempts suicide...

original_title: 億万長者になった男。

place_of_birth: Manchukuo, China

title: 47 Ronin

title: Railroad Man

title: Buddies

title: Yukon

title: Father

title: Faraway Heaven

title: Stormy Night

title: Hutch the Honeybee

original_title: 劇場版 昆虫物語 みつばちハッチ 勇気のメロディ

title: Neck

title: Madadayo

title: The man who became a billionaire.

original_name: 京都・琵琶湖・神戸・大阪へ魅惑のトラベルミステリー