Kiyoshi Kawakubo

Kiyoshi Kawakubo

Born: November 18, 1929
Died: April 16, 2019
in Yokohama, Japan

Movies for Kiyoshi Kawakubo...

Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End
Title: Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End
Character: Guame (voice)
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Simon and Kamina live in an underground city monitored by the village chief. When Simon stumbles upon an artifact and beastmen invade from the surface, Simon and Kamina rebel against them.
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Title: Gurren Lagann
Character: Guame (voice)
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: TV
In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and restlessly underground for hundreds of years, subject to earthquakes and cave-ins. Living in one such village are 2 young men: one named Simon who is shy and naïve, and the other named Kamina who believes in the existence of a “surface” world above their heads.
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Title: Akagi
Character: Boss Kawada (voice)
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: TV
Akagi is a mah-jong-centric Japanese comic, written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto and first published in 1992. It is featured in the weekly magazine Modern Mahjong, and is a prequel to the author's previous work Ten, in which Akagi's titular character also appears. Due to its popularity, the manga has been adopted into two live-action direct-to-video movies, a 26-episode anime series which aired in Japan in the fall of 2005, and a live-action TV drama series.
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Title: Monster
Character: Galbrecht (voice)
Released: April 6, 2004
Type: TV
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
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Title: Paranoia Agent
Character: Fuyubachi (voice)
Released: February 3, 2004
Type: TV
Musashino, Tokyo. An elementary schooler repeatedly attacks people in the streets. Known only to the public as "Lil Slugger", none of the victims can recall the young boy's face and only three distinct details are left in their memories: golden inline skates, a baseball cap, and the weapon: a bent golden baseball bat. Detectives Ikari and Maniwa set out to track down the perpetrator and put an end to his crimes.
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Title: Salaryman Kintaro
Character: Morinosuke Yamato (voice)
Released: February 18, 2001
Type: TV
Kintarō Yajima used to be the leader of a feared and respected biker gang, but out of respect for his late wife he chooses to straighten himself out and work as a salaryman so that he can support his son.
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Title: TRIGUN
Character: Max (voice)
Released: April 2, 1998
Type: TV
Trigun takes place in the distant future on a desert planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. But the real Vash the Stampede, the enigmatic and conflicted lead character, is more heroic, even though he usually acts like a complete idiot.
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Slayers Great
Title: Slayers Great
Character: Lord Haizen (voice)
Released: August 2, 1997
Type: Movie
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?
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Cosmic Fantasy: Galaxy Cougar's Trap
Title: Cosmic Fantasy: Galaxy Cougar's Trap
Character: Dr. Mead
Released: August 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Yuu and Saya are two of the top Cosmic Hunters in the galaxy, and Yuu is enjoying a bit of fame after his most recent adventure. The two are on a date when they are interrupted from a distress signal from their "ally", the feline pervert Nyan. In the meantime, the space pirate Belga begins attacking space freighters in an attempt to lure out Yuu, so she can take him to bed with her. Of course, when he spurns her, she decides that if she can't have him, then no one can.
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Scramble Wars
Title: Scramble Wars
Character: Quincy (voice)
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Take the characters from a number of sci-fi based animes, a stage not unlike "Wacky Races," super deformed madness, and general insanity and what you get is Scramble Wars. While Scramble Wars does include characters from the original Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force and Genesis Survivor Gaiarth, it also has a few other characters from other animes such as AD Police and Riding Bean.
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Title: The Abashiri Family
Character: Danjuro Namakubi (voice)
Released: May 21, 1991
Type: TV
The infamous and most terrifying Mafia family in the world, the Abashiri family, is about to disband after years of murders and robbing banks. Along with the disbanding of the family a well guarded secret will be revealed and Kikunosuke, the strongest family member, is in the middle of it all.
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Silent Möbius
Title: Silent Möbius
Character: Glos-Poriner the King of Swords (voice)
Released: January 7, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: A.D. Police Files
Character: Chief (voice)
Released: May 25, 1990
Type: TV
MegaTokyo 2027: Relentless technological development has resulted in the creation of Boomers. These are artificially intelligent androids with the potential to free mankind from physical labor; but anything that can be used can also be misused.
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Title: Ys
Character: Dares (voice)
Released: November 21, 1989
Type: TV
Adol Christin, a young man from the mainland, sails to the besieged land of Esteria in search of adventure. Esteria is being overrun by beasts under the control of the evil priest Dark Fact, and the people of the land are running out of time. However, there is a prophecy that tells of a hero from another land who will come to save Esteria -- and his name would be Adol Christen.
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Cybernetics Guardian
Title: Cybernetics Guardian
Character: Folkes
Released: October 31, 1989
Type: Movie
A freak accident unleashes a demonic spirit within researcher John Stalker - transforming him into Saldo, a mythical cyber-beast fueled by hate and evil.
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The Tale of Osamu Tezuka: I'm Son-Goku
Title: The Tale of Osamu Tezuka: I'm Son-Goku
Character: Wan Laiming (voice)
Released: August 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A semi-autobiography of Tezuka Osamu combined with a 30 minute science-fiction setting of Journey to the West.
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Shuten Doji - The Star Hand Kid
Title: Shuten Doji - The Star Hand Kid
Character: Oyama (voice)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Student Jiro Shutendo is unaware that he has mystical powers which could lead mankind to heaven or hell.
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Title: Gunbuster
Character: Admiral Dhorasoo (voice)
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
In the near future, humanity has taken its first steps towards journeying into the far reaches of the galaxy. Upon doing so they discover a huge race of insectoid aliens known as "Space Monsters." These aliens seem dedicated to the eradication of mankind as they near closer and closer to discovering Earth. In response, humanity develops giant fighting robots piloted by hand-picked youth from around the world. Shortly after the discovery of the aliens, Noriko Takaya, the daughter of a famous deceased space captain, enters a training school despite her questionable talents as a pilot. There, she meets her polar opposite, the beautiful and talented Kazumi Amano, and is unexpectedly made to work together with her as they attempt to overcome the trauma of war as well as their own emotions.
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Title: Bubblegum Crisis
Character: Quincy Rosenkreutz (voice)
Released: February 25, 1987
Type: TV
MegaTokyo 2033: Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo. When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined. Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.
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Title: Spaceship Sagittarius
Character: Professor Istoriks (voice)
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
Uchūsen Sagittarius is a 77-episode Japanese science fiction anime series directed by Kazuyoshi Yokota and created by Nippon Animation and TV Asahi. It aired from January 10, 1986 to October 3, 1987. The series is based on Altri Mondi, an Italian comic book drawn by physicist Andrea Romol.
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Title: Onegai! Samia-don
Character: サミアどん
Released: April 2, 1985
Type: TV
Please! Psammea-don is a Japanese anime that was broadcast from 2 April 1985 to 4 February 1986 with a total of 78 episodes produced. This anime is based on the 1902 novel Five Children and It by English author Edith Nesbit. The anime differs from the novel in revolving around four children rather than five. Three of the children are siblings while the fourth is their friend and neighbor. The four children encounter the Psammead who, in the anime, is depicted as being yellow with a blue hat, and more of a grumpy and lazy being than mischievous. In Latin America, the series was known as Samed, el duende mágico and in France and Quebec as Sablotin. In the Arab world, it was known as Moghamarat Samid.
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Rain Boy
Title: Rain Boy
Character: Mota (adult, voice)
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
A lonely kid who lives in the countryside meets a strange boy who has a ragged umbrella over his head and there is always rain pouring over him. The rain boy is dazzled by the other kid's boots and offers three wishes in exchange for them.
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3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie
Title: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie
Character: Le père de Marco (Voix)
Released: July 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to find her.
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King Fang
Title: King Fang
Character: Youichiro (voice)
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: Movie
The main character of the story is Fang, who was born to a hunting dog and a circus-runaway European wolf. Although Fang was raised by a human family, he is a wild animal after all, and is destined to live amongst nature. The story reaches its climax when Fang returns from the circus and faces his foe, a giant brown bear which killed his family.
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Title: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
Character: Pietro (voice)
Released: January 4, 1976
Type: TV
Italy is in a deep depression, so to support her family, Marco's mother goes to Argentina to work as a domestic. But after she writes to her family that she is sick, her letters stop coming. So Marco decides to go to Argentina to look for her. He travels across Argentina to find her, meeting many wonderful people, and having many adventures during his journey.
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Title: Zero Tester
Character: タチバナ博士
Released: October 1, 1973
Type: TV
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Title: Robot Detective
Character: BAD (voice)
Released: April 5, 1973
Type: TV
An supernatural Criminal incidents has happened in Japan, and the Police Inspection Office established a special scientific investigation room. The group leader is an old man who has been a police officer for 25 years, his name is Shiba Daizo, and a robot, K. An old policeman who did not trust robots, coupled with a robot with vast powers but no human feelings, launched a battle against the evil criminal organization.
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Title: Decision
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Kimba the White Lion
Character: Bou
Released: October 6, 1965
Type: TV
The adventures of Leo, a young lion cub who becomes king of the jungle when his father, the previous king of the jungle is killed by a human hunter.
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The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon
Title: The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon
Character: Titan-bô (voice)
Released: March 24, 1963
Type: Movie
In this influential* cult-classic animated film based on Japanese folklore, Susano is the youngest son of Izanagi and Izanami, the heavenly couple who created the Earth. Still a young boy, Susano is devastated by the passing away of his mother. Determined to find her despite the reprimands of his father, he embarks on a journey to find his brother and his sister for spiritual guidance. *Genndy Tartakovsky identifies this film as a primary influence on the direction and design of his TV series Samurai Jack (2001–2004; 2017). Yōichi Kotabe was a character animator on the film, and used it as inspiration for the art direction of the video game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002). Tomm Moore, director of the Oscar-nominated films The Secret of Kells (2009), Song of the Sea (2014), and Wolfwalkers (2020), has identified the film as a major influence.
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Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad
Title: Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad
Character: Great King Torfa (voice)
Released: July 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Two young aspiring adventurers, Sindbad and Ali, find an old sailor who has washed up on the shore. With his final breath, the sailor tells them a tale of a hidden treasure and hands over the map he had held on to through his trials. And so, the two would-be heroes are off for adventure. But the road to riches is paved with hardships: their travels lead from stowing away on a ship to the sultan's dungeons -- only to escape with the sultan's daughter in tow!
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Alakazam the Great!
Title: Alakazam the Great!
Character: Kinkaku Daio (voice)
Released: August 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A monkey king who learns the secrets of magic goes on a spree and causes no end of aggravation for the gods, who finally imprison him. In order to make up for all the trouble he's caused, he is sent on a mission to accompany a prince who is the son of the gods on a journey through a land filled with dangers, monsters, cannibals and demons.