Atsuko Tanaka

Acting

Atsuko Tanaka

Born 1962-11-14 · Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko, November 14, 1962 – August 20, 2024) was a Japanese voice actress and narrator. Born in Maebashi, she became interested in acting during her youth, and while educated at Ferris University, worked as a background extra at Shochiku. After spending years working as an office lady for a Tokyo executive, she enrolled in the Tokyo Announcement Academy and joined the talent agency Mausu Promotion, with whom she was affiliated at the time of her death. She was best known for her portrayal of Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell film and franchise, and she also voiced Konan in Naruto, Caster in Fate/stay night, Lisa Lisa in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chun-Li in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Claudette in Queen's Blade, Francis Midford in Black Butler, Karura in Utawarerumono, Bayonetta in the Bayonetta series, Hanami in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Kyrie Ushiromiya in Umineko no Naku Koro ni.

Acting credits

Ghost in the Shell poster
7.9

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

Ghost in the Shell

1995

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas poster
8.2

After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

2018

Batman Ninja poster
5.9

Batman, along with many of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported to feudal Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.

Batman Ninja

2018

Ghost in the Shell 2.0 poster
7.4

In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.

Ghost in the Shell 2.0

2008

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence poster
7.4

Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

2004

Halo Legends poster
7.3

The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios.

Halo Legends

2010

Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet poster
6.5

At the opening ceremony of the WSG (World Sports Games) Tokyo Games, a sports festival held once every four years, it is announced that the world's first vacuum superconducting maglev with a maximum speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour will open. While attracting attention from around the world, top executives of large companies are kidnapped from the party venue where WSG tournament sponsors gather. Conan moves toward a solution and eventually finds a connection with the WSG abduction case that occurred 15 years ago in Boston, USA.

Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet

2021

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War poster
6.8

In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, the public is not aware of the threat that AI has towards the human race. A compilation film with newly added footage.

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War

2021

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower poster
7.4

Ten years after the Fourth Holy Grail War, a devastating clash between Masters and Servants, another war erupts. Shirou Emiya, whose father fought in the first battle, was leading a peaceful life with the warmhearted Sakura Matou. But when hidden forces begin to stir, Shirou resolves to fulfill his father’s dying wish, protect Sakura, and fight for the Holy Grail.

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower

2017

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man poster
7.7

The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "The Laughing Man" swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, and espionage leaving no known suspects. New information is revealed, as Section 9 enters the hunt for a suspect capable of unfathomable actions in this compilation of Stand Alone Complex content.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

2005

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society poster
7.5

The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

2007

Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure poster
6.8

Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catch a big bird, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect the animal, Nobita and Doraemon go to Beremon Island, overseen by a golden beetle named Herakles.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure

2012

Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars poster
6.0

After the Earth was destroyed by mysterious alien lifeforms known as the Gauna, surviving remnants of the human race escaped to space in the enormous generation ship Sidonia. Having drifted through space for millennia, the Sidonia found itself once more under attack from Gauna for the first time in a century. Once again facing the threat of extinction, a temporary victory against the Gauna was eked out thanks to the human-Gauna hybrid Tsumugi Shiraui and ace Guardian mech pilot Nagate Tanikaze. 10 years later... The people of Sidonia enjoy a brief respite. Peaceful days pass, during which Tsumugi begins to realize her feelings for Nagate, who is now celebrated as a hero of Sidonia. However, as Captain Kobayashi has always known, as long as the Gauna remain, peace cannot last. The decision is made: a final battle, upon which rests the fate of humanity's last survivors. As the end approaches, will the crew be able to protect those they love?

Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars

2021

TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance poster
6.8

Set in the rich Tekken universe, Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D follows Xiaoyu Ling, seasoned martial artist and high school student, tasked by the G Corporation to infiltrate an international school in Kyoto to gather information on the mysterious student Shin Kamiya. Before she can make any progress in the investigation, Shin is kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Digging deeper into Shin’s background in an attempt to rescue him, Xiaoyu learns about the frightening underbelly of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima… and the late Heihachi Mishima’s conspiracy that’s stained with blood.

TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance

2011

Patlabor WXIII the Movie poster
6.6

Set in the year 2000, when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.

Patlabor WXIII the Movie

2002

Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven poster
7.5

The year is 2030, and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the "Individual Eleven." With a sadistic intent of mass destruction, will they triumph in victory or discover the gloomy pitfalls of defeat?

Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

2006

Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi poster
6.3

Compilation film combining footage from various television anime episodes that center on the Akai family.

Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi

2021

The Piano Forest poster
7.1

Shuhei Amamiya transfers to Moriwaki Elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child, Kai Ichinose, who seems to be the only one capable getting sound out of the thought to be broken piano.

The Piano Forest

2007

Knights of Sidonia: The Movie poster
5.5

The film is a compilation of the first season, featuring new scenes and remastered sound effects. The story follows Nagate Tanikaze, who has spent his entire life living deep beneath Sidonia’s surface. While searching for food, he ventures above ground for the first time and discovers humanity’s ongoing struggle to survive against the Gauna.

Knights of Sidonia: The Movie

2015

Bayonetta: Bloody Fate poster
6.9

Bayonetta is an ancient witch who awakens from a five hundred-year slumber with no memory of her life. Armed with a gun in each limb, she embarks on a journey to rediscover her past, defeating all bloodthirsty angels that stand in her way.

Bayonetta: Bloody Fate

2013

Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic poster
7.5

Ciel learns of a "Aurora Society", that is rumored to be researching how to bring the dead back to life. Their next meeting is scheduled to be conducted on the ship Campania, voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean. Much to Ciel's dismay, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Midford, is taking the same ship, thus leaving him with no choice but to get aboard as well.

Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic

2017

Reign: The Conqueror Movie poster
7.4

Prince Alexander, son of King Philip, and heir to the Macedonian empire, must fend off political saboteurs, assassins, and the jealousy of his own father to ascend to the position of king. Once there, he begins his quest to conquer all nations and become known as the Great King, though an ancient prophecy foretells that he will be the destroyer of the world and forever remembered as the Devil King.

Reign: The Conqueror Movie

2000

ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards poster
7.2

Set in the capital city of Badon one year after the events of the TV anime, Jean and the rest of the ACCA department are preparing for the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the new order. For the characters — caught between rumors of unrest, unchanging days, new crossroads, gazes remembered in memories, and days of new beginnings — time once again begins to move forward.

ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards

2020

Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip

2019