Hitoshi Takagi

Hitoshi Takagi

Born: February 26, 1925
Died: February 11, 2004
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Hitoshi Takagi...

Zombie Snake
Title: Zombie Snake
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: July 14, 2000
Type: Movie
A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
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Gemini
Title: Gemini
Released: September 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
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Getting Any?
Title: Getting Any?
Character: Actor in Zatoichi
Released: February 11, 1995
Type: Movie
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
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Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming
Title: Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming
Character: Natadae Village Elder (voice)
Released: March 12, 1994
Type: Movie
A Saiyan Space pod crash-lands on Earth out of which a wounded Saiyan crawls: Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan. The wounded Broly shouts out in frustration and turns into normal form. The place soon freezes, trapping him in it and he falls into a coma.
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II
Title: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II
Character: Whale (voice)
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
The second specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. Some scenes in the more pivotal episodes are cut as well. The compilation series was made by Hideaki Anno, who was said to have been dissatisfied with the final result of the TV show. The Nautilus Story was only released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc.
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Title: Super Rescue Solbrain
Character: Dr. Katayama
Released: January 20, 1991
Type: TV
After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.
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Goddamn
Title: Goddamn
Character: Saji Senmu
Released: April 27, 1990
Type: Movie
Car racing anime, based on the manga by Kaoru Shintani that serialised in Big Comic Superior from 1988 to 1990.
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Title: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Character: Irion (voice)
Released: April 13, 1990
Type: TV
In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Ratlique, and Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis.
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My Neighbor Totoro
Title: My Neighbor Totoro
Character: Totoro (voice)
Released: April 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
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Yamataro Comes Back
Title: Yamataro Comes Back
Character: Shi-roku (voice)
Released: August 15, 1986
Type: Movie
After losing his parents, a young bear named Yamataro is chained as an attraction of a small kiosk near a train station. There he is encouraged by a C-62 train to runaway from the humans and become free.
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Eleven Cats and an Albatross
Title: Eleven Cats and an Albatross
Released: December 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Eleven naughty cats on the run from the neighborhood police chief hear that a giant fish is nearby for the taking. They go on a hazardous quest find it, learning that they must work as a team to reach their goal.
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Tampopo
Title: Tampopo
Character: Restaurant Owner
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: Movie
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Megazone 23
Title: Megazone 23
Character: Coco (voice)
Released: March 9, 1985
Type: Movie
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
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Title: Megazone 23
Character: Coco (voice)
Released: March 5, 1985
Type: TV
YAHAGI Shōgo is a young man living in Tokyo in the mid-80s, enjoying life during a period of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Or so he thinks... In reality he, and everyone he knows, are living in a carefully maintained illusion. Almost all are blissfully unaware that they are aboard a massive spaceship, Megazone 23. Only a few of the inhabitants of Megazone 23 know the truth -- that not only is the city a ship, but that it is controlled by Bahamut, an AI, and is in danger of attack from the mysterious Dezalg. When Shōgo stumbles upon the secret of Megazone 23, the military decides that he and his friends need to be silenced before they can interfere with their plans to hack Bahamut. Shōgo only has two things going for him – a motorcycle that is much more than it seems, and an acquaintance who is much less so!
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The Best of a Summer
Title: The Best of a Summer
Character: Ezaki
Released: July 13, 1984
Type: Movie
A female college student who grew up in a wealthy family, and a younger half-sister who doesn't even know who she is. She is a young and mature mother-in-law. A variety of dazzling, sexy, and slightly sentimental stories set under the scorching midsummer sun, centered around a mysterious and strange man who enters their lives. A unique experience unfolds in a seaside town.
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Title: The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Character: Father Rodriguz (voice)
Released: June 29, 1982
Type: TV
The adventures of a young Spanish boy named Esteban who joins a voyage to the New World in search of the lost Cities of Gold and his father.
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Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9
Title: Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9
Character: Pornography Shop Owner
Released: March 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A woman named Chieko Kuwano is hired as an assistant manager at a large corporate office in Japan. She’s smart, sexy, and willing to do almost anything for her sex-starved new boss but, since he’s married, his deviant behavior makes her uncomfortable. Fed up with the boss and his perverted ways, the ladies in the building band together to enact their own special kind of revenge… that is, after they have a lesbian three-way slumber party, of course!
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Fallen Angel Gang
Title: Fallen Angel Gang
Character: Tomoyuki Kasai
Released: October 23, 1981
Type: Movie
With soft curves and deadly cunning a widow and her two daughters take revenge for the killing of her husband who was the leader of their gang. Based on the novel by Azusa Katsume.
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Uno Koichiro no Hiraite Utsushite
Title: Uno Koichiro no Hiraite Utsushite
Character: Shigekazu
Released: May 29, 1981
Type: Movie
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Uno Koichiro no Shûdôin Fuzoku Joshi-ryô
Title: Uno Koichiro no Shûdôin Fuzoku Joshi-ryô
Character: Gôzô Makita
Released: January 9, 1981
Type: Movie
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Jeremy's Christmas Tree
Title: Jeremy's Christmas Tree
Character: サンタクロース
Released: December 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on a children's picture book of the same name. A Christmas tale about a bird who was raised by tree after it was abandoned. The tree was then cut down for people in the city to use for Christmas celebrations. The bird desperately is trying to find its adoptive tree mother with the help of Jeremy, a penniless orphan, who heard her story so they go and search every tree being used in town. The search in the cold takes a toll on Jeremy until Santa Claus appears, but is it really him?
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Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas
Title: Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas
Character: Narrator
Released: April 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A remake of episode 22 of the TV version.
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Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass
Title: Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass
Character: Narrator
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Image of a Bound Girl
Title: Image of a Bound Girl
Released: March 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A professor of erotic art sees his chance to practice what he teaches when by happenstance he meets a suicidal high school girl. Unsure at first how to bind and discipline his captive he is assisted by a bartender who shows him the finer details of bondage on his own slave. As he continues to subject his captive to more intense S&M training he risks both his academic position and his marriage.
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Uno Koichiro no nurete modaeru
Title: Uno Koichiro no nurete modaeru
Character: Kuroki
Released: January 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!!
Title: Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!!
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Recap of TV episodes 12 & 13
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Rope and Skin
Title: Rope and Skin
Character: Tsunekichi Ishioka (as Kin Takagi)
Released: July 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.
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Title: Galaxy Express 999
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: TV
In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.
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Rope Hell
Title: Rope Hell
Character: Hitoshi Hanamura(花村)
Released: June 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.
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Teacher Deer
Title: Teacher Deer
Character: Kashiwagi - Chief Director of the School
Released: March 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. But her provocative attitude starts to worry the school's administration as she reveals vice and corruption that are running rampant in the school.
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Ringing Bell
Title: Ringing Bell
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Chirin is an innocent though adventurous young lamb whose carefree life on the farm comes to an abrupt end when a wolf murders his mother. Confused and angry, Chirin pursues the wolf into the mountains, seeking revenge. The laws of nature are brutal, however, and hatred alone won't be enough to avenge the loss of his mother. Only the strong survive in the wild, and obtaining that strength may change Chirin forever.
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Noble Lady Bound Vase
Title: Noble Lady Bound Vase
Character: Yoshino
Released: December 10, 1977
Type: Movie
A cruel and sadistic landowner buys a daughter from a noble samurai family who had incurred a large debt. Months later, the landowner's sister comes to visit, and discovers that the new wife is secretly in love with another man. The wife suffers various humiliations for her indiscretions.
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Title: Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
Character: Narrator
Released: June 7, 1977
Type: TV
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac is a Japanese anime TV series consisting in 26 episodes. It was directed by Yoshio Kuroda and was first broadcast on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in 1977.
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Yakyukyo no uta
Title: Yakyukyo no uta
Character: President Inugami
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
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Lady Snowblood
Title: Lady Snowblood
Character: Matsuemon
Released: December 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
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Title: New Moomin
Character: Moomin Papa (voice)
Released: January 9, 1972
Type: TV
A remake of the 1969-70 Moomin series. This version is more closely based on the books by the Finnish illustrator and writer Tove Jansson.
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Human Target
Title: Human Target
Character: Boss Senoo
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
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Animal Treasure Island
Title: Animal Treasure Island
Character: Billy Bones (voice)
Released: March 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority of the cast. By chance Jim comes upon a map of Treasure Island. He leaves the port accompanied by Glan, the rat and Bub, the baby on a strange looking boat of his own make to look for the island. Pirates soon find him and adventure ensues.
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Title: Moomin
Character: Moominpapa (voice)
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: TV
Moomin is a Japanese anime series broadcast on the Fuji Television Network between 1969 and 1970. It is loosely based on the Moomin books by the Finnish author Tove Jansson.
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A Thousand and One Nights
Title: A Thousand and One Nights
Character: Police Chief (voice)
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
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Lupin the Third: Pilot Film
Title: Lupin the Third: Pilot Film
Character: Kogoro Akechi (TV) (voice)
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The first animated adaptation of the popular manga series, this pilot introduces the main characters of "Lupin the Third" with montages, presented through a short frame narrative illustrating a typical gang escape.
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Living Skeleton
Title: Living Skeleton
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
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A Colt Is My Passport
Title: A Colt Is My Passport
Released: February 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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Throne of Blood
Title: Throne of Blood
Character: Tsuzuki guard
Released: January 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.