Yasuo Yamada

Yasuo Yamada

Born: September 10, 1932
Died: March 19, 1995
in Tokyo, Japan
Yasuo Yamada was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator, born in Tokyo, Japan. Yamada left the faculty of literature of Waseda University, and performed in many stage, radio, and television productions. His most famous role was the voice of Arsène Lupin III from the Lupin the Third series, starting in 1971 and ending in 1995. He also provided the Japanese dubbed voice for Clint Eastwood and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

At the age of 62, Yasuo Yamada died of a brain hemorrhage. Since Yasuo's death, Kanichi Kurita has taken over the role of Lupin the Third.

Movies for Yasuo Yamada...

Lupin the Third: Voyage to Danger
Title: Lupin the Third: Voyage to Danger
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: May 4, 1999
Type: Movie
After Inspector Zenigata is reassigned from the Lupin case and grows despondent, master thief Lupin the Third decides to help him get his old job back, teaming up with the old man to destroy the international weapon smugglers Shot Shell. Together with Lupin's long-time partners in crime, they steal a nuclear Russian submarine and enlist the help of a nuclear physicist named Karen, who keeps suspiciously eyeing Lupin's partner Jigen. If that weren't enough, Zenigata's Interpol successor is an assassin who aims to pick off the Lupin gang one by one.
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Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Title: Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A double dose of fun and excitement unfolds as Lupin III, the world's most loveable thief, does his best to stay one step ahead of the law, as he presents his two most spectacular capers! Hayao Miyazaki directed both episodes under the pseudonym Teruki Tsutomu.
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Lupin the Third: Dragon of Doom
Title: Lupin the Third: Dragon of Doom
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: July 29, 1994
Type: Movie
The Lupin gang is once again dragged onto a wild treasure hunt! This time, the objective is a mysterious, small dragon statue that even Goemon's steel-rendering blade Zantetsuken cannot cut. The artifact, which once eluded even Lupin the Third's esteemed grandfather, rests deep undersea inside the infamous Titanic, and is the key to unlocking the mystery of Zantetsuken's almighty strength. A wealthy gangster, Lupin, and Goemon all want the statue for themselves!
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Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love
Title: Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: September 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Notorious thief Lupin the Third aims to steal the lost treasure of the Romanov royal family with his criminal associates along for the ride. The treasure is an immense quantity of gold hidden underground in the vaults of a mysterious Texas bank. But to obtain the gold, Lupin and his friends will have to face down both the Mafia and Rasputon, the telepathic descendant of the mad monk Rasputin. Lupin again eludes inspector Zenigata with the help of a mysterious blonde named Judy Scott, as Rasputon manipulates the world's leaders to put every obstacle in Lupin's path.
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Lupin the Third: Napoleon's Dictionary
Title: Lupin the Third: Napoleon's Dictionary
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: August 9, 1991
Type: Movie
The secret of the Lupin family treasure is out: its location is written inside a dictionary once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte himself! When the dictionary turns up as the prize for a historic motor car race, the notorious Lupin the Third and his criminal cadre race the world's superpowers to win - or steal - the Dictionary and unearth his grandfather's legacy of riches!
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Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers
Title: Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A bloody civil war is the setting for Lupin's latest caper; the leader for one of the factions holds documents written by Earnest Hemingway and contain the location of a remarkable treasure. With Goemon and Jigen fighting on opposite sides of the war, Lupin must tackle this challenge alone. As the war rages on, can Lupin secure the treasure and keep Goemon and Jigen from killing each other?!
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Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty
Title: Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Foiled repeatedly by the predictions of Interpol's supercomputer, Lupin has settled down. His partner Jigen asks him to pull one last heist: recover the Super Egg, a massive diamond hidden somewhere inside the Statue of Liberty.
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Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Title: Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: July 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Master thief Lupin the Third is after the long-lost Gold of Babylon with the aid of his partners, Jigen and Goemon. They trek the globe, unraveling clues and dodging the attentions of both the Mafia and the tenacious Inspector Zenigata. The stakes have never been higher as Zenigata enlists a team of five beautiful and determined policewomen to lure Lupin the Third into handcuffs. But an elderly drunken woman named Rosetta may be the key to solving the location of this fabulous, ancient treasure.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Jim (Voice)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave of the Widow Douglas' sister, Miss Watson. Jim is running for freedom because he has found out that Miss Watson plans to "sell him South" for $800. Together they construct a raft and travel on the Mississippi River, Jim hoping for freedom from slavery, and Huck searching freedom from his drunk father and controlling foster parent.
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I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
Title: I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
Released: February 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Mr. Matsuzawa is a novelist who lives in Chiba Prefecture. Only his daughter Kazuko knows that the family dog, Don Matsugorou, can talk. Don is wounded in a fight with the neighbors' dog, King, a nouveau-riche mongrel with ideas above his station. At the vet, however, he falls in love with a little patchwork puppy called Chotaro.
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Dr. Slump: Hoyoyo! Space Adventure
Title: Dr. Slump: Hoyoyo! Space Adventure
Character: Dr. Mashirito (voice)
Released: July 10, 1982
Type: Movie
When local teacher Midori Yamabuki receives an emergency summons to her home planet it turns out to be a trap devised by galactic warlord Dr. Mashirito, and it's up to Dr. Senbei Norimaki and a group of students (including his robot daughter Arale) to venture into space to save her.
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Botchan
Title: Botchan
Character: Uranari (voice)
Released: June 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on Soseki Natume's 1906 novel, which was one of Japan's best-selling books. The novel included autobiographical elements: Natsume once taught in Matsuyama, where Uranari comes to teach.
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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Title: Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: December 15, 1979
Type: Movie
After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.
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Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
Title: Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: December 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Interpol Inspector Zenigata embarks to Egypt in hot pursuit of world's most wanted master thief, Lupin the Third, who is seeking a stone artifact with his partners, Jigen and Goemon. Notorious femme fatale, Fujiko Mine is also after the stone, lured by the promise of eternal youth and beauty by the sinister and enigmatic scientist known as Mamo. It all leads to Mamo's hideaway, where Lupin discovers the madman's dark secret and a fiendish scheme that threatens the entire planet! Now, it's up to Lupin to stop the insane Mamo before he can complete his 10,000 year-old plans of world domination.
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Title: Song of Baseball Enthusiasts
Character: 日の本盛
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: TV
The first female professional baseball player who strikes out sluggers with her magical pitch... The manager who makes every effort to amend the Baseball Regulations so that she can join the pros... The separated twin brothers who couldn't have met each other if they weren't both totally absorbed in baseball... This series describes the joys and distress, the glory and frustration of those who enthusiastically love baseball.
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Title: Huckleberry no Bōken
Character: Jim (voice)
Released: January 2, 1976
Type: TV
When Huckleberry runs away from his orphanage, he teams up with an escaped slave. Together, they travel the Mississippi on a raft, encountering all kinds of people and adventures.
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Title: 宇宙
Released: July 2, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Tekkaman: The Space Knight
Character: Andro
Released: July 1, 1975
Type: TV
Tekkaman: The Space Knight is an anime produced by Tatsunoko Productions in 1975. A short-lived English adaptation aired in the US in 1984. Two decades later, it was followed by the much more popular Tekkaman Blade, which was dubbed in the U.S. by Saban as Teknoman. The original series is currently streaming in North America via Yomiura Group's planned Anime Sols video service, as of spring 2013. However, due to the failure to successfully crowd-fund it for DVD, the show will soon be removed from the site, with the possibility of considering a crowd-funding opportunity in the future.
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Panda! Go Panda!
Title: Panda! Go Panda!
Character: Policeman (voice)
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Cheerful Mimiko has a wonderfully strange family—a Panda for her Papa; and his son Panny, calls her Mom! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble. Despite his efforts to behave, Panny causes trouble in school and now the school is after Panny! Then, Panny makes a new friend, Tiny, a baby tiger who's wandered off from the circus.
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Panda! Go Panda!
Title: Panda! Go Panda!
Character: Cop
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
The plot follows Mimiko, a bright little girl left alone when her grandmother leaves on a trip. Making a few stops at some local stores, Mimiko comes home to her house in a bamboo grove and finds a baby panda named Panny sleeping on the back doorstep. She quickly makes friends with the little panda, and invites him in for a drink. His father, PapaPanda, soon comes to visit, and they decide to become a family after PapaPanda offers to.
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Title: Lupin the Third
Character: Arsène Lupin III (voice)
Released: October 24, 1971
Type: TV
Follow the thrilling adventures of master thief Lupin the Third, quite possibly the world's greatest thief. Along with Daisuke Jigen, Goemon Ishikawa and his on-off love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.
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Title: Andersen Monogatari
Released: January 3, 1971
Type: TV
Hans Christian Andersen Stories is a Japanese anime series by Mushi Productions and aired on Fuji TV from January 3 to December 21, 1971.
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Title: Kamui the Ninja: Stories Other Than the Legend
Character: イケズ
Released: April 6, 1969
Type: TV
Kamui the Ninja: Stories Other Than the Legend is a shōnen anime produced by Tele-Cartoon Japan in 1969. It was broadcast in Japan from 6 April 1969 to 28 September 1969 by Fuji TV. Kamui the Ninja had 26 episodes with a running time of 22 minutes each one. The series was based on the manga The Legend of Kamui by Sanpei Shirato.