Noriko Ohara

Acting

Noriko Ohara

Born — Died

1935-10-02 — 2024-07-24

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

98 titles

Noriko Ohara was born on October 2, 1935 in Tokyo, Japan as Noriko Tobe. She is an actress, known for Future Boy Conan (1978), The Rose of Versailles (1979) and Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984).

Known for

Doraemon poster
7.7

Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.

Doraemon

1979

Urusei Yatsura poster
7.3

The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader instead of his sweetheart Shinobu, Ataru becomes a conduit for aliens arriving on Earth, causing all sorts of havoc for him and his companions, not to mention his own reputation!

Urusei Yatsura

1981

UFO Robot Grendizer poster
7.7

The story revolves around Duke Fleed who is a survivor of the Vega Star, raised by Dr. Umon as his adoptive son, and known as Daisuke Umon on Earth. Years after his arrival, he's faced with the threat of King Vega and his army, who want to conquer the Earth. With his friends Koji and Hikaru (and later his kid sister Maria Grace), Duke decides to fight back using his best weapon, the almighty Grendizer.

UFO Robot Grendizer

1975

Future Boy Conan poster
8.4

After the great disaster of 2008, a war that destroyed the planet, the world is now largely ocean with the continents having sunk. Conan lives on a remote island with his grandpa and nature, never having seen another human being. But one day a mysterious girl, Lana, washes up on his beach. The two become quick friends, but she’s soon kidnapped and taken to Industria, a technological remainder from the world before. Conan leaves his island in pursuit, braving new lands and many hardships with new friends and enemies just beyond the horizon.

Future Boy Conan

1978

Nichijou: My Ordinary Life poster
8.4

Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life’s awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Meanwhile down the street, a pocket-sized professor makes life difficult for a robot who just wants to be normal. But normal is the last thing you can expect in a town where salmon falls from the sky. In fact, the only thing you can count on is your friends, but even they are totally weird.

Nichijou: My Ordinary Life

2011

Heidi: Girl of the Alps poster
7.4

After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only accepted by force to take her in. But Heidi's kindness may be able to open his heart. Together with her friends Peter and Clara, she goes on lots of adventures.

Heidi: Girl of the Alps

1974

Film credits

2000s · 10 titles

Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey poster
7.4

Nobita, believing he and Doraemon had done a good deed by saving stray cats and dogs and sending them back in time by 300 million years, discover that the usage of Doraemon's Ray of Evolution had created a cat-and-dog-person society equal to Nobita's time. When an asteroid attack is set to hit the city, Nobita and his friends must save Doraemon and ease tensions between the two sides.

Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey

2004

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves poster
7.1

Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves

2001

Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom poster
6.5

Nobita, Doraemon, and the rest travel to the far future, on an inhabited planet where humans and robots coexist. The Empress of the Robot Kingdom is plotting to strip the robot inhabitants of their emotions, so it's up to Nobita and his friends to stop the plan, while also helping a robot boy named Poko from getting caught in the middle.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom

2002

Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters poster
7.2

After a typhoon hits Nobita's town, he and Doraemon discover a wind sprite who, with some help from Doraemon's 22nd-century tech, takes them and their friends to a fantastic world of wind and storm people. But the wind sprite, named Fuuko by Nobita, had brought them to her world for a reason, as her peoples' gods are battling, and Suneo might be a key player in their feud.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters

2003

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King poster
7.0

Doraemon and its friends open a hole in the time and they're travel to the Country of Mayana, a lost Mayan civilization in the jungle.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King

2000

Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet, It's a Rumic World: Urusei Yatsura poster
6.1

Ataru and the others will join the competition of 'The Obstacle Course Swim Meet', organized by Tomobiki High Principal and Onsen-Mark. Each of Tomobiki High students need to face different kinds of obstacles during the competition, only few of them reach the finalist and their situation is getting harder and harder than previous obstacles.

Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet, It's a Rumic World: Urusei Yatsura

2008

Yatterman: All New YatterMechas Assembled! Great Decisive Battle in the Toy Kingdom! poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yatterman: All New YatterMechas Assembled! Great Decisive Battle in the Toy Kingdom!

2009

Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born poster
7.6

A 2002 Japanese short anime film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It premiered on March 9, 2002 in Japan on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born

2002

Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections poster
7.1

Nobita finds his old teddy bear among the trash after his mother partially cleaned up their shed and tells her not to throw it away. The stuffed animal is a precious gift from his beloved grandmother. Reminiscing about her makes Nobita ask Doraemon to take him back to when he was still three years old and his grandma was still alive. [edit]

Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections

2000

Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!! poster
8.6

A 2001 Japanese short anime family film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It premiered on March 10, 2001 in Japan on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!

2001

1990s · 17 titles

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express poster
7.5

Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express

1996

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights poster
7.0

Shizuka ends up in the fantasy world of the 'Arabian Nights' story. However, Doraemon, Nobita, Suneo, and Jyaian must find her from the imaginary Middle East and bring her back to the real life.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights

1991

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth poster
7.1

Nobita and his friends find a portal to a mysterious resort filled with metal buildings. They soon discover that the person who opened the portal for them has an ulterior motive.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth

1993

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds poster
7.1

Nobita, after wondering if Heaven truly exists, asks for Doraemon to take him there. When his robot pal suggests that they make their own Heaven, Nobita enlists Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo to help, but a war breaks out between two islands in the clouds that could have terrible environmental consequences if Nobita and Doraemon don't bring peace in time!

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

1992

Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen poster
7.4

Nobita is exhausted from having constant nightmares and pleads Doraemon to arrange a dream machine that will enable him to dream of anything he wishes for. As Nobita dreams of him and his friends in the roles of gallant musketeers, the dream world starts to break down due to a dark force, and Nobita will have to put his fantasy to the test and become a hero, both in the real world and imagined.

Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen

1994

Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City poster
6.8

When Doraemon and Nobita win a tiny planet through a lottery, they make use of a screw to bring several toys to life and create a toy town.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City

1997

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas poster
6.6

Nobita coaxes his friends to join him for a treasure hunt but an eerie event transports them to the past. However, their hunt for treasure is not easy as they come face-to-face with pirates.

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas

1998

Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling poster
5.7

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.

Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling

1991

Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding poster
7.6

Nobita and Doraemon travel into the future to see whether or not Nobita will marry Shizuka. Once they arrive, they find out that instead of travelling to the day of the wedding, they traveled to the day before. The pair follow the future Nobita and his friends as they try to return a lost cat to its owner.

Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding

1999

Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World poster
7.4

To help him with his summer vacation project, Doraemon gives Nobita a kit which allows him to create a new world. The duo and their friends then go on a journey to witness the evolution of life.

Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World

1995

Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe poster
6.4

Nobita and his friends embark on a rescue mission to save Gian and Suneo, whom, after playing one of Doraemon's futuristic video games, are held captive by an evil alien force.

Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe

1999

Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet poster
6.7

Nobita and his friends get transported to an animal planet after a mysterious pink fog appears inside his house. They work together with the natives to find the origin of the fog.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet

1990

I'm All Yours poster
3.6

Rokuro, a penniless student living in a run-down apartment, gets a surprise visit by the beautiful and quite mysterious Mamiya Yu. For some reason she has hopelessly fallen for this no-good pervert. As it turns out she is actually the daughter of a very wealthy Japanese family. Considering Rokuro's background, he cannot believe his luck... but not all is as it seems. This rich family seems to be a lot more perverted than even Rokuro could have imagined...

I'm All Yours

1991

Doraemon Comes Back poster
6.7

A short film released in 1998 between Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas and The Great Operating of Springing Insects. About Doraemon leaving Nobita to go back to the future.

Doraemon Comes Back

1998

Doraemon: Nobita and the Future Notes poster
7.0

Educational video produced by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in 1994, it was later included on the 13th issue of Boku, Doraemon magazine released on August 20, 2004.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Future Notes

1994

Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits poster
8.7

A Doraemon anime film. It premiered in theatres on March 9, 1991 on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita in Dorabian Nights. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.

Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits

1991

Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding

1991

1980s · 27 titles

Macross: Do You Remember Love? poster
7.2

It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island.

Macross: Do You Remember Love?

1984

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur poster
6.8

When Suneo does not show Nobita the fossil of a dinosaur claw, he takes up a challenge to find a dinosaur. He digs up a hillside and finds an egg, which later hatches and becomes a dinosaur.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

1980

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer poster
6.8

Lopple and Chammy, two runaway aliens, recruit Doraemon and Nobita to help save their planet from destruction.

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer

1981

Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil poster
6.7

Nobita and Doraemon venture to the Heavy Smokers Forest in the Congo, where they find a stray dog and a giant statue. After discovering that they are wanted for trespassing on isolated kingdom land, Nobita and the rest must utilize the power of the mysterious statue to prove their worth.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil

1982

Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love poster
5.7

The third film finds Ataru transformed into a pink hippopotamus, which sends Lum chasing after the wicked magician responsible, with catastrophic results. With Lum gone, her friends decide that there is no reason to remain, and so Tomobiki slowly returns to normal. The highlight of the film is a high speed chase scene with an angry Lum flying after the mysterious Ruu through the city at night and into a hall of mirrors (and illusion ). Ataru's true feelings for Lum are probably more obvious in this film than any of the others.

Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love

1985

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West poster
7.2

As Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo are auditioning for a role in their school's play based on "Journey to the West", the coveted role of Son Goku is hotly contested. After suggesting that the real Great Sage Equal to Heaven should play himself, knowing that the story is only a legend, Nobita and Doraemon go back in time to find their own fake Monkey King, but arrive in present day with the story's demons having taken over the world. The only way for things to go back to normal is for Nobita and pals to reenact the tale...for real!

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West

1988

Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops poster
6.7

Doraemon and Nobita decide to build a perfect toy robot. However, their creation turns out to be a little more uncanny than an object of appreciation and wonder.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops

1986

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the World of Magic poster
6.9

Nobita, currently obsessed with fantasy fiction, wishes upon Doraemon's Moshimo-Box for the world to have real magic and sorcery. This doesn't go as he'd hoped, of course, and Nobita must navigate the strangely-bureaucratic magical world he'd made while also learning to conjure on his own in preparation for an attack by the underground-dwelling Demon World.

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the World of Magic

1984

Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy poster
7.8

An anime film for the second Cyborg 009 anime TV series.

Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy

1980

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars poster
7.2

As Nobita, Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo are making their own space movie, a fleeing bug-sized alien president makes his way to Earth, and needs the help of the kids and Doraemon to stop an oppressive dictatorship threatening his democracy.

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars

1985

Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil poster
7.0

Nobita and his friends under the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Gian and Suneo take Doraemon's underwater vehicle and travel through the Atlantic Ocean, trying to find a treasure ship.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil

1983

Crusher Joe poster
6.8

Enter the tale of the Crusher Council, a group of rugged individuals known for assignments ranging from transportation to terraforming and everything in between. In the early days of space exploration the Crushers took on the job of destroying asteroids and defining space lanes. Because of their work, they were nicknamed "Crushers" which eventually became their business moniker. Despite the rough and ready nature of the Crushers' work, they subscribe to a few steadfast rules. Unethical and illegal assignments are taboo, and any Crusher accepting one is barred from the Union. Of course, this presents problems for shady clients who try to trick the Crushers into accepting misleading assignments. They know that once the Union accepts a case the Crushers are honor-bound to follow it through. Among the various worlds, the Crusher Council has a stunning reputation, and among the Crushers, the most elite team is the one led by Crusher Dan and his successor, Crusher Joe.

Crusher Joe

1983

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan poster
6.7

Nobita, thinking of running away from home, travels back in time with Doraemon and his pals to prehistoric Japan. However, a time paradox causes prehistoric boy Kukul to land in the modern day, so it's up to Doraemon and the rest to help the boy get back to the past while also defeating the mysterious shaman king, Giga-Zombie.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

1989

Adieu Galaxy Express 999 poster
7.0

Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering, full-length theatrical conclusion to Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries will be revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear to speak of it.

Adieu Galaxy Express 999

1981

Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter poster
6.0

It seems that Lum's grandfather made an agreement that should he have a daughter, she would be married to a traveling merchant that he met. Now, the merchant has come to collect due. Ataru is tricked into thinking that Lum wants to leave, and so, in a moment of anger, says he hates her. Arguments erupt, and Lum decides that she must know the truth of Atarus feelings. As for all the questions of importance for the Onis, a game of tag begins, one that Ataru can win simply by telling Lum I Love You. However, in the end his pride may end up dooming him. So begins the series of events that will at long last decide the future and fate of Ataru and Lum.

Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter

1988

Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs poster
6.7

Nobita tries to prove to Doraemon and his friends that dinosaurs are still alive, and, after finding an underground cave, discovers a hollow earth civilization of knights and saurian steeds that Suneo must be rescued from.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs

1987

Makoto-chan poster
9.0

A series of interconnected vignettes regarding Makoto Sawada, an energetic yet socially inept kindergartner, and his long-suffering family. Makoto strives to receive the title of his school's "Best Child" award, resulting in chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.

Makoto-chan

1980

Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie) poster
6.1

Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie)

1980

Doraemon: What am I for Momotaro poster
7.1

A short movie of Doraemon was released on August 1, 1981 in Japan. It is a retelling of the famous Japanese fable Momotaro.

Doraemon: What am I for Momotaro

1981

Dorami-chan: Mini-Dora SOS!! poster
6.3

This episode is set in the future 2011 where the main characters from Doraemon are all grown up and have kids. Minidora (mini doraemon) accidentally gets delivered to the Nobita's future house. The sons of Jyaiyan, Suneo and Nobita plays with Minidora with the special goods he brings out of his pocket. But trouble happens when they ran away from Dorami, who came to retrieve Minidora.

Dorami-chan: Mini-Dora SOS!!

1989

Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana poster
5.4

Son of a viscount and a Roma prostitute (both deceased), Serge is intelligent, sweet, talented, and alienated by his family due to his heritage. Upon being sent to his new school, he rooms with Gilbert Cocteau, a gorgeous loner of a boy who sells his body for reasons unknown. Serge's attempts to reach out to Gilbert fail spectacularly, and yet there is something in both of them that attracts them to each other.

Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana

1987

Superdimensional Romanesque Samy: Missing 99 poster
8.5

A young schoolgirl Samy sees some bikers hurt some other girls and that makes the bikers come after Samy. While fleeing she gets the help of a boy and her dog, but she still ends up in a different world along with her dog. In there she helps a witch who has lost her glass eye. But bad demons search for her as well and soon she ends up in the fight between gods and demons because she holds a great power within.

Superdimensional Romanesque Samy: Missing 99

1986

Urusei Yatsura: Raging Sherbet poster
6.4

Lum & her girlfriends are invited to Neptune by Oyuki. There she shows them her new business venture at a ranch of flying sherbets, birds capable of producing sherbet cones from their beaks. Ran convinces Oyuki to let her borrow one, her goal is to make some quick cash selling sherbets on Earth. Unfortunately, the combination of being overworked and a hot summer day has made the sherbet extremely cranky, even from its refrigerated cage. It breaks from its cage and escapes, but not before attacking Ran and Lum, and trashing Benten's brand-new bike by shooting sherbet cones at it. Now it's up to Ran to retrieve the sherbet before Benten blasts it out of the sky, and more importantly, before Oyuki finds out.

Urusei Yatsura: Raging Sherbet

1988

Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection poster
6.1

In the aftermath of a war fought by magnetic weapons which caused massive earthquakes, a young and spunky boy naned Conan gets involved in a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great war. He meets a young girl named Lana, and they eventually foil the plans of the city-state of Industria which wants to regain the lethal weapons. Note: This film is only a compilation of the final three episode of the television series.

Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection

1984

Little Wansa poster
NR

The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a husky puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much time looking for his mother. During his adventures on the street he meets friends, enemies and his beloved girlfriend. This OVA reunites the complete series aired on TV.

Little Wansa

1989

Time Patrol poster
9.0

Time Patrol is a film cut from Tatsunoko's Time Bokan by Harmony Gold. This adaptation was made after the two Time Fighters films, but unlike them, it was never distributed in the US.

Time Patrol

1985

Crusher Joe: The OVAs poster
7.3

Two missions for the crushers. In "The Ice Prison", Joe and his team are assigned to adjust the orbit of a prison located on an ice asteroid before it disintegrates as it falls onto the planet Kirius. The prison is filled with political prisoners contrary to the autocracy of Kirius consequently rising the suspicion of the crushers. In "The Final Weapon: Ash", the team is secretly hired directly by the president of the nation of Bandor to rescue an officer carrying a bomb capable of annihilating all living organisms of an entire planet.

Crusher Joe: The OVAs

1989

1970s · 5 titles

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Mystery Of The Arcadia poster
7.4

The story on Arcadia's mystery, on which the 13th television episode was based.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Mystery Of The Arcadia

1978

Future Boy Conan poster
7.6

In this 1979 condensed-for-film recut of Hayao Miyazaki's 1978 anime series, a young boy named Conan goes on a grand adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by the weapons of the great disaster of 2008. He meets a young girl named Lana, who is kidnapped by the technological city-state of Industria as they attempt to regain those weapons. Together with his friends, Conan sets out to rescue Lana and stop Industria from threatening the rest of the world.

Future Boy Conan

1979

Heidi in the Mountains poster
6.6

Heidi (1974) Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao Takahata A feature-length film Heidi in the Mountains, aka The Story of Heidi, was edited from the series by Zuiyo (which by then was a separate entity from Nippon Animation, which employed many of the TV series' animation staff) distributed in 1979. All cast were replaced excluding Heidi and the grandfather. This movie is also the only incarnation of the Heidi anime to have been released commercially in the United States in English (on home video in the 1980s). Isao Takahata remarked "Neither Hayao Miyazaki nor I are completely related to any shortening version" on this work.

Heidi in the Mountains

1974

Galaxy Express 999: The Movie poster
6.9

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.

Galaxy Express 999: The Movie

1979

Thumbelina poster
6.3

A tiny girl, only as long as a man's thumb, is born to a childless woman, abducted by frogs who want her to marry their son, but escaping instead (with the help of a bumblebee) to find a real prince without having to kiss the frog first.

Thumbelina

1978

Series credits

Doraemon poster
7.7

Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.

Doraemon

1979

Urusei Yatsura poster
7.3

The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader instead of his sweetheart Shinobu, Ataru becomes a conduit for aliens arriving on Earth, causing all sorts of havoc for him and his companions, not to mention his own reputation!

Urusei Yatsura

1981

UFO Robot Grendizer poster
7.7

The story revolves around Duke Fleed who is a survivor of the Vega Star, raised by Dr. Umon as his adoptive son, and known as Daisuke Umon on Earth. Years after his arrival, he's faced with the threat of King Vega and his army, who want to conquer the Earth. With his friends Koji and Hikaru (and later his kid sister Maria Grace), Duke decides to fight back using his best weapon, the almighty Grendizer.

UFO Robot Grendizer

1975

UFO Robot Grendizer poster
7.7

The story revolves around Duke Fleed who is a survivor of the Vega Star, raised by Dr. Umon as his adoptive son, and known as Daisuke Umon on Earth. Years after his arrival, he's faced with the threat of King Vega and his army, who want to conquer the Earth. With his friends Koji and Hikaru (and later his kid sister Maria Grace), Duke decides to fight back using his best weapon, the almighty Grendizer.

UFO Robot Grendizer

1975

Future Boy Conan poster
8.4

After the great disaster of 2008, a war that destroyed the planet, the world is now largely ocean with the continents having sunk. Conan lives on a remote island with his grandpa and nature, never having seen another human being. But one day a mysterious girl, Lana, washes up on his beach. The two become quick friends, but she’s soon kidnapped and taken to Industria, a technological remainder from the world before. Conan leaves his island in pursuit, braving new lands and many hardships with new friends and enemies just beyond the horizon.

Future Boy Conan

1978

Nichijou: My Ordinary Life poster
8.4

Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life’s awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Meanwhile down the street, a pocket-sized professor makes life difficult for a robot who just wants to be normal. But normal is the last thing you can expect in a town where salmon falls from the sky. In fact, the only thing you can count on is your friends, but even they are totally weird.

Nichijou: My Ordinary Life

2011

Heidi: Girl of the Alps poster
7.4

After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only accepted by force to take her in. But Heidi's kindness may be able to open his heart. Together with her friends Peter and Clara, she goes on lots of adventures.

Heidi: Girl of the Alps

1974

Starzinger poster
8.5

Three powerful cyborgs must assist Princess Aurora on her dangerous journey to the Great Planet, in order to restore balance in the universe.

Starzinger

1978

Super Dimension Fortress Macross poster
7.8

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.

Super Dimension Fortress Macross

1982

Time Bokan Series: Yatterman poster
6.0

The Yatterman duo and an evil trio led by the beautiful Florina engage in a struggle to obtain the Skull Stone—which is said to reveal the location of a gold mine. The trio seem to constantly have the upper hand, but are always foiled by Yatterman, who are able to stop their evil schemes.

Time Bokan Series: Yatterman

1977

Space Pirate Captain Harlock poster
7.4

When a mysterious invader from the stars catches Earth unawares, only the legendary space pirate Captain Harlock and the crew of the Arcadia have the will to stand against them.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

1978

Voltes V poster
7.1

From out of nowhere, a mysterious alien race known as the Boazan Forces has invaded the Earth. A group of individuals specially trained to handle this kind of situation has been unleashed. Kenichi, Ippei, Daijirou, Hiyoshi & Megumi are the pilots of the Choudenji Machine Voltes V (5), Earth's defense against the Boazan and their terrible Beast Warriors. The plot thickens as the Go Brothers discover their true heritage and the truth behind their father's disappearance. Conflicts and mixed emotions hinder the Go Brothers at times but due to their unwavering desire to find their dad, they must go to the place where it all started. With the help of the rebels based on Earth and on the aliens' homeworld, the Voltes Team has another mission, remove the tyrant Zu Zanbajil and liberate the people of Boazan.

Voltes V

1977

Voltes V poster
7.1

From out of nowhere, a mysterious alien race known as the Boazan Forces has invaded the Earth. A group of individuals specially trained to handle this kind of situation has been unleashed. Kenichi, Ippei, Daijirou, Hiyoshi & Megumi are the pilots of the Choudenji Machine Voltes V (5), Earth's defense against the Boazan and their terrible Beast Warriors. The plot thickens as the Go Brothers discover their true heritage and the truth behind their father's disappearance. Conflicts and mixed emotions hinder the Go Brothers at times but due to their unwavering desire to find their dad, they must go to the place where it all started. With the help of the rebels based on Earth and on the aliens' homeworld, the Voltes Team has another mission, remove the tyrant Zu Zanbajil and liberate the people of Boazan.

Voltes V

1977

Sindbad the Sailor poster
7.7

More than 1200 years ago, the impish Sindbad, a mischievous boy full of curiosity, sneaks into the royal palace to watch the acrobatic performances and learns that a wide world awaits beyond Baghdad. Hearing of the travels of his uncle Captain Ali, Sindbad decides to become a sailor and travel around the world. Leaving behind a note to his father, young Sindbad boards Captain Ali’s ship and-accompanied by a myna called Sheila-sets out for the greatest adventure of his life.

Sindbad the Sailor

1975

Nobody's Boy: Remi poster
8.2

Orphaned Remi gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Nobody's Boy: Remi

1977

Space Emperor God Sigma poster
9.0

Space Emperor God Sigma is an anime series aired from 1980 to 1981. There were 50 episodes. It is also referred to as "God Sigma Empire of Space" and "Space Combination God Sigma".

Space Emperor God Sigma

1981

Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 poster
7.9

Brilliant scientist Sōzō Haran was conducting research on Mars when he created the Meganoids, a new form of cyborg life capable of metacognition. Suddenly Dr. Haran lost control of his creation as the Meganoids slaughtered him and his entire family, save his youngest son, the 16-year-old Banjō Haran. Banjō escaped from Mars on a rocket ship with Daitarn 3, a solar-powered super robot. Now 18 years old and living on Earth, Banjō fights against the Meganoids and their leader, Don Zauser. Banjō must gather allies to help him stop the Meganoid threat, which aspires to turn all humans into cyborgs and "improve" the human race.

Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3

1978

Time Bokan Series: Yattodetaman poster
7.2

Two royal houses battle for the power to rule the Kingdom of Fir. In order to secure the Kingdom, two representatives go back in time to find the mythical Firebird, which will allow its bearer to become the rightful ruler.

Time Bokan Series: Yattodetaman

1981

Belle and Sebastian poster
7.5

Belle and Sebastian is an anime adaption of a series of French novels called Belle et Sébastien by Cécile Aubry. The series ran on the Japanese network NHK from April 7, 1981 – June 22, 1982. It consists of 52 episodes and was a co-production of MK Company, Visual 80 Productions and Toho Company, Ltd.. Toshiyuki Kashiwakura was the head writer and character designs were by Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990. This anime used many staffers from Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a WMT production even though Nippon Animation itself was not involved with this series. The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages.

Belle and Sebastian

1981

The Star of the Seine poster
6.6

La Seine no Hoshi is an anime series by Sunrise, which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV from April 4, 1975 and finished its run on December 26, 1975, spanning a total of 39 episodes. The title translates to English as "Star of the Seine" or "The Seine's Stars." It is based on Alain Delon's 1963 movie La Tulipe noire. It was created by Mitsuru Kaneko, and was directed by Masaaki Ōsumi and Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was written by Sōji Yoshikawa, while the character designer was Akio Sugino. The music for the series was composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi.

The Star of the Seine

1975

Tokimeki Tonight poster
8.4

The main character, Ranze, is a junior high girl with troubles: her father is a vampire and her mother is a werewolf. Ranze has yet to manifest her supernatural powers, and her parents are beginning to get worried she might be normal. So begins the fantasy romantic comedy story.

Tokimeki Tonight

1982

Time Bokan poster
8.6

While experimenting with his time-travel machine, Dr. Kieta becomes lost in an unknown era. So his assistant and his daughter set out in space in a time machine to search for the missing doctor. But they must also try to defeat an evil group trying to steal the precious Dinamond jewel, which possesses the only clue to the doctor's location.

Time Bokan

1975

Zero Tester poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zero Tester

1973

Yatterman poster
9.0

2008 revival of Yatterman.

Yatterman

2008

Genesis Climber MOSPEADA poster
6.9

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.

Genesis Climber MOSPEADA

1983

Time Bokan Series: Gyakuten Ippatsuman poster
10.0

Gyakuten! Ippatsuman is the sixth in the Time Bokan series. In the 1990s-era Osteandel City is the headquarters of Time Lease, a business that leases almost everything you could ask for including powerful robots. They are proud of themselves for being number one in the international ranking of billionaires, for the past ten consecutive years. Meanwhile there is another lease company in the same city called Skull Lease where the notorious villain trio work as top executives. Their ostensible object is to disgrace the credit of Time Lease and replace them as the leading enterprise. In fact, however, they have a scheme to secure a footing for world conquest. One day a transport robot of Time Lease is assaulted by the villain trio and it is time for Ippatsuman to get on the move to fight for justice.

Time Bokan Series: Gyakuten Ippatsuman

1982

Zenderman poster
2.7

Dr Monja is a scientist, who is curious about the nature of the legendary "Elixir of Life" which grants the user eternal lifetimes and forever youth. He built a device called the "Time Tunnel" in order to let a team of youngsters to start a quest down the timeline and various spaces to find an exact answer. The Akudama Trio, however, is also seemingly after exactly the same thing. Who will get it first?

Zenderman

1979

Kunimatsu-sama no Otoridai poster
1.0

A comedy about a group of kids forming a school baseball team, with the leader being very stubborn and argumentative.

Kunimatsu-sama no Otoridai

1971

Doraemon poster
6.7

Nobita Nobi is so hapless that his 22nd century decendants are still impoverished as a result of his 20th century bumbling. In a bid to raise their social status, their servant, a robotic cat named Doraemon, decides to travel back in time and guide Nobita on the proper path to fortune. Unfortunately Doraemon, a dysfunctional robot that the familly acquired by accident (but chose to keep nonetheless), isn't much better off than Nobita. The robot leads Nobita on many adventures, and while Nobita's life certainly is more exciting with the robot cat from the future, it is questionable if it is in fact better in the way that Doraemon planned.

Doraemon

1973

Little Wansa poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Little Wansa

1973

Time Bokan Series: Itadakiman poster
6.0

One day three intelligent children are called in by the principal and asked by Shakyamuni dwelling in his body to find missing puzzle copperplates scattered all over the world and complete the puzzle board to heighten honor of Oshaka School. The conversation, however, is overheard by the villain trio and they decide to forestall those selected youngsters. Then they happen to meet with a brilliant boy named koochan who appears handy and so they take him with them and attempt to take away puzzle copperplates from a goblin. At the same time they try to win the goblin over to their side and attack our heroes together. Being aware of the evil scheme, Koochan transforms himself into Itadakiman and fights bravely to drive the wicked trio away.

Time Bokan Series: Itadakiman

1983

Harris' Whirlwind poster
NR

A boy known as a troublemaker transfers into a new school.

Harris' Whirlwind

1966

Don Quijote poster
NR

A comedy about the mischievous adventures of a young boy.

Don Quijote

1967

Time Bokan: Royal Revival poster
NR

The villainous casts of the original Time-Bokan series compete to win the right to appear in this program, daring to employ all their mean, make-shift and frivolous tricks. The winners get to display their idiotic, yet appealing performances in the mystic Tatsunokon Kingdom program.

Time Bokan: Royal Revival

1993

No artwork available
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

哆啦A梦名作剧场

1993

Little Lulu poster
10.0

Nippon Animation presents the mid-century adventures of Lulu Moppett, a brazen young girl who loves to play with dolls just as much as she loves to get even with her frenemy Tubby Tompkins and his gang of "fellers". Adapted from the American comic series of the same name, a daily slice-of-life of little girls and little boys unfolds in a cozy small American town, with the only problems to worry about being the trouble the kids get up to!

Little Lulu

1976

Crusher Joe: The OVA's poster
6.7

In the 22nd century, mankind expanded into outer space. However, it was the Crushers who paved the way, performing jobs that ranged from terraforming to asteroid busting, warp lane plotting to transportation. These days, the Crushers still accept jobs of all kinds, so long as they're legal and ethical, and Crusher Joe's team is the best. Joe, Alfin, Ricky, and Talos, along with the robot Dongo, take on jobs that require all the tools, tricks, and knowledge that the Crushers are known for.

Crusher Joe: The OVA's

1989

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother poster
7.7

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.

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother

1976