Ryoichi Tanaka

Acting

Ryoichi Tanaka

Born 1947-01-26 · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

Ryoichi Tanaka (田中 亮一, Tanaka Ryōichi, born January 26, 1947) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Suginami, Tokyo. His younger brother was Kazumi Tanaka. He is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. He is most known for the roles of Akira Fudo/Devilman (Devilman), Nobita's teacher (Doraemon), and Cancer Deathmask (Saint Seiya).

Acting credits

Memories poster
7.5

Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.

Memories

1995

Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth poster
7.8

The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in their greatest battle yet.

Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth

1988

Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies poster
6.9

The great King Gurumes is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. A young girl named Pansy who lives in the nearby village has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek Muten Rōshi for assistance. Can our heroes save the village and put a stop to the Gurumes Army?

Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

1986

Fist of the North Star poster
6.8

After a nuclear holocaust tears the world apart, mankind is forced to the harshness of not only the oppression of others who are much more powerful, but the dead earth which seems to be getting worse with every passing moment. But a savior has risen from the ashes, a man who will defeat those who would torment the weak and make the world a livable place once more. A man named Kenshiro...

Fist of the North Star

1986

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 Steel Troops poster
6.6

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 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: 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

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle poster
6.7

Goku and Kuririn are given an assignment by Kame-Sen'nin: "Retrieve the sleeping princess from Lucifer and I will take you as my students." But the mission proves to be more perilous than originally thought.

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

1987

Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen poster
7.3

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 Kingdom of Clouds poster
7.0

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 and the Galaxy Super-express poster
7.4

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 and the Legend of the Sun King poster
6.9

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

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

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

Barefoot Gen 2 poster
6.8

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Barefoot Gen 2

1986

Lily C.A.T. poster
5.7

The crew of an interplanetary starship fights for survival after an alien force takes control of their craft.

Lily C.A.T.

1987

Beaten by Black Rain poster
5.5

Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stand Akauma, a bar: Takeshi, who lost his entire family; Tomoko, a prostitute horribly burned in the bombing; her younger brother Junji, who scrabbles on the fringes of society; Eiko, a pregnant young woman whom he loves; and Yuri, another prostitute who is determined to secure a brighter future for her blind son.

Beaten by Black Rain

1984

Mazinger Z vs. Devilman poster
5.6

Mazinger Z vs. Devilman is a 1973 animated movie that crossed over two then-popular Anime series, both of which were created by Manga artist Go Nagai. While fighting with some of his enemies Mazinger Z inadvertently knocks them into a volcano, where they crash into the prison of the Satan race and release Phoenix Jenny! Dr. Hell, learning of this, frees the rest of the Satan race and teams up with them to defeat Mazinger Z, and their ability to fly proves to be too much for our hero. Meanwhile, Devilman is also individually fighting the members of the Satan race, but their combined power is too much for him as well; can Mazinger and Devilman put aside their differences and team up to defeat Dr. Hell and the Satan race?

Mazinger Z vs. Devilman

1973

Mazinger Z vs The Great Dark General poster
8.1

Kouji and his friends have defeated Dr. Hell and are now enjoying a break, but suddenly a strange prophet appears and warns everyone of an oncoming danger, mechanical beasts never seen before start appearing all around the world wrecking havoc. Its up to Kouji and his Mazinger Z to stand up to this threat but it seems he is vastly outnumber and outmatched.

Mazinger Z vs The Great Dark General

1974

Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Ghost Rebirth - STAGE II: The Emperor's Resurrection poster
6.0

Continuing where the previous story left, Mechazam proceeds to attack EX Zetton in a mad fury but almost perishes in the molten lava until Mebius saves him, despite being heavily injured by EX Zetton. Being thrown to the Battle Nizer, Mechazam tries to break the seal under Mebius' guidance to reverse the disruption field but the container was too strong...

Ultraman Mebius Side Story: Ghost Rebirth - STAGE II: The Emperor's Resurrection

2009

Kamen Rider SD: Strange?! Kumo Otoko poster
6.6

"Kamen Rider SD: Strange!? Kumo Otoko" is an animated OVA based on the gag manga Kamen Rider SD: Hurricane Legend. This cute and comedic short movie features chibi versions of the Showa Era Kamen Riders, as they team up against the evil GranShocker organization, while Kamen Rider Black RX tries to confess his love to female sports instructor Michiru.

Kamen Rider SD: Strange?! Kumo Otoko

1993

Twilight of the Cockroaches poster
6.2

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987

Kenya Boy poster
5.7

An 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins.

Kenya Boy

1984