Atsuko Tanaka

Atsuko Tanaka

Birth : 1962-11-14, Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

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Atsuko Tanaka is a Japanese voice actress. Her deep and sultry voice is often used to portray villainesses and mature female characters.

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Atsuko Tanaka
Atsuko Tanaka
Atsuko Tanaka

Movies

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
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.
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
Mary Sera (voice)
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 Alibi
Mary Sera (voice)
Compilation film combining footage from various television anime episodes that center on the Akai family.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
Mauve (voice)
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.
Gundam Reconguista in G Movie I: Go! Core Fighter
Wilmit Zenam (voice)
The new era begins! The turbulent era known as the Universal Century has ended. Now, mankind looks towards prosperity and peace in the new era known as the Regild Century (R.C.). One of the most important resources in this era is the Capital Tower - a space elevator which towers over the land connecting Earth to space. Its purpose, to transport the Photon Batteries the Earth relies on for power. It is worshiped as a holy place. Tasked with protecting the tower, one day on a practice mission, young Capital Guard cadet Bellri Zenam is attacked by a high-performance G-Self Mobile Suit. Despite having never before encountered the G-Self, he feels a strange connection to it and its pilot, a space pirate called Aida Surugan. Little does Bellri know that he is about to uncover truths which will shake the entire Regild Century. Go! Core Fighter is the first of five films compiling the 2014 Gundam Reconguista in G TV series, featuring new cuts and alterations.
Detective Conan: The Scarlet School Trip
Mary Sera (voice
Usuzumizakura: Garo
Akira (voice)
Set during the Heian Period, Kyo is a beautiful city that is proud of its glory. Two beautiful onmyouji meet, and the sad and short-lived beautiful cherry blossom starts to stir after 1000 years.
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Haruki's Mother (voice)
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.
Batman Ninja
Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley (voice)
Batman, along with many of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported to feudal Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower
Caster (voice)
Shiro Emiya is a young magus who attends Homurahara Academy in Fuyuki City. One day after cleaning the Archery Dojo in his school, he catches a glimpse of a fight between superhuman beings, and he gets involved in the Holy Grail War, a ritual where magi called Masters fight each other with their Servants to win the Holy Grail. Shiro joins the battle to stop an evildoer from winning the Grail and to save innocent people, but everything goes wrong when a mysterious "Shadow" begins to indiscriminately kill people in Fuyuki...
3-Nen D-Gumi Glass no Kamen: Tobidase Watashitachi no Victory Road
Chigusa Tsukikage (voice)
A "VR film" presented on a stage as if it were a stage play, with the characters projected on the stage using live holographic technology.
Yakuza Kiwami
Reina (voice)
Kazuma Kiryu is demoted from his clan after taking the blame for his boss's murder. After a decade in prison, Kiryu sets out in search for his old friends who have gone missing.
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn
Uzal Delilah (voice)
In an age when large-scale natural disasters frequently happen all over the world, when cyborgs and autonomous robots are beginning to appear on the market in technologically advanced nations, and major world powers compete for technology and resources, the divide between rich and poor grows and the future for the poor looks bleak. In this transitional stage, everyone wanders around in a self-indulgent daze and the way out isn't clear... This is the story of how two cybernetically enhanced girls meet.
Chieri and Cherry
Lady Emerald (voice)
Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral. Chieri and Cherry undertake a journey on the border between fantasy and reality.
Knights of Sidonia: The Movie
Samari Ittan (voice)
The year is 3394. The solar system has been long destroyed by a strange alien race called Gauna. Now humans are barely maintaining population in their seed ships - the ones they also used to escape a thousand years ago. After several years of drifting though space, Sidonia, a seed ship with a population of over 500,000 people, is once again threatened by Gauna. Follow Tanikaze Nagate, a mysterious young man from the deep corners of the ship, and his friends as they try to strike back against these gigantic creatures and at the same time learn what they really are for the sake of humanity's survival. -MAL
Sleep Tight My Baby, Cradled in the Sky
Yuri Aoshima
Satomi and Yasunori are filled with happy expectations for their newborn baby Orine while driving home from a maternity hospital. However, a sudden accident strikes and Orine loses her parents. Nineteen years later, Orine is on the run from the police. While she is trying to escape, Orine is contacted by Yuri Aoshima, a member of a shady organization who offers her shelter in an unmanned experimental space station. However, Orine boards the station to find that it is not as unmanned as she thought: her mother, Satomi, is waiting for her there. As Orine and Satomi make up for their lost time together, the mysteries of Satomi's true identity, Yuri's goals, and a man called "SENSEI" who aims to take over the station continue to deepen.
Bayonetta: Bloody Fate
Bayonetta
Based on the 2009 video game, Bayonetta: Bloody Fate follows the story of the titular heroine, an ancient witch who awakens from a five hundred-year slumber with no memory of her life. Armed with a gun in each limb, Bayonetta embarks on a journey to rediscover her past, defeating all bloodthirsty angels that stand in her way.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles - Animal Adventure
Professor Kelly
Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catches a big bird Moa, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect extinct the animal, Nobita and Doramon go to Beremon Island which is protected by a golden beetle named Herakles. They meet a girl from the Rokkoro tribe and a boy who looks exactly like Nobita on Beremon Island ...
Bread of Happiness
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Special OVA
Alice (voice)
With his last memory being that of his kidnapping, college student Sigma awakens to find himself trapped in a facility with eight strangers. The captives are soon informed that if they want to escape, they must play the "Nonary Game"—a complex contest of trust and betrayal, where deciding whom to believe in is the difference between life and death. To make matters worse, any initial trust between the players is tainted when they realize that the mastermind behind their predicament may be one of them...
Carnival Phantasm: Illya's Castle
Short based on a real-time run of the Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Visual Novel's mini-game, Illya's Castle.
TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance
Nina Williams (voice)
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.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society 3D
Motoko Kusanagi
A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.
Halo Legends
Dr. Halsey (segment "The Package")
The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios.
The River's Light
A story of a rat family who have to leave their home because humans start a construction site. Now the rats are searching for a place to stay.
Ghost in the Shell 2.0
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
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 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 counterpart. Among a numerous enhancements, for the film's 2.0 release, were a number of scenes were overhauled with 3D animation, visual improvements, and soundtrack rerecorded in 6.1 surround sound.
The Piano Forest
Amamiya Shu 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.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society
Motoko Kusangai (voice)
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.
The Phoenix: Earthkeepers Chapter
The Phoenix (voice)
The future earth where cities have been buried due to global warming and the environment important for humankind and life has been destroyed. One day, Kai, the hero who lives lonely without any friends to interact with, is led by the "Phoenix" and descends into the desert area of ​​the modern earth. What fate awaits Kai when he meets a girl there...
Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG – Individual Eleven
Major Motoko Kusanagi
The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze...
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – The Laughing Man
Motoko Kusanagi
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.
Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics
Kaori (voice)
Stolen from the famous "secret" Air Force base, Area 51, Lupin's most recently stolen treasure holds a secret. Four "Bloody Angels," the toughest women Lupin has ever faced, want the treasure for their own terrorist purposes. Meanwhile Zenigata teams up with a female police officer to hunt Lupin and the terrorists down.
Super Robot Wars
Based on the popular video game series, this futuristic anime feature follows the plight of the Earth Federation, the last group of human beings on the planet, who are forced to defend themselves from elimination at the hands of an alien invasion. To give its troops a chance in battle, the Earth Federation Army has developed the "Personal Trooper," a mobile robotic weaponry system that fuses with the body of its human pilot to remain functional.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
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."
The Making of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Self
This making of segment offers a lot of interview comments with the crew behind it, although does so in a rather rapid fashion. The most interesting element of this is probably learning a bit more behind how the movie was created from an animation standpoint, in particular the insight around animating the robots.
Heart Cocktail Again
WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3
Saeko Misaki (voice)
Set in the year 2000 (between the events of Patlabor and Patlabor 2), 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.
Reign: The Conqueror Movie
Cassandra
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.
Kindaichi Case Files Movie 2: Deep Blue Massacre
Yurie Aizawa (voice)
Kindaichi, Miyuki and Fumi are invited to the resort of the Deep Blue Island by their senpai Akane, the daughter of the president of the Aizawa Group. A group of criminals infiltrate the hotel diguised as waiters to kill the members of the Aizawa Group. The criminals don't know their boss in person, and they don't know either that he's in the hotel with the members of the Aizawa Group.
Eikou e no Spur: Igaya Chiharu Monogatari
Psycho Diver: Soul Siren
Angelica (voice)
Yuki Kano has it all: fame, wealth, the world at her feet. There's also something very wrong with her... from time to time, she's totally unable to sing (which, for a pop star, is not good). Enter Bosujima, a "psycho diver" with the capability to enter people's heads and straighten out what's wrong with them. Well, most of the time, anyway.
Hermes - Winds of Love
Mermaid Delmone (voice)
The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beautiful wife, Aphrodite, by his side, he bravely responds to the challenge. A battle between good and evil rocks the heavens as Hermes fights to unite Greece!
Advancer Tina
Tina Owen (voice)
As Mankind expands out into the galaxy, new colonies are created under the control of the Earth government. For the outer planets, however, space is governed by no law. Tina Owen has been sentenced to 2000 years in jail, with only one chance to redeem herself, by investigating the mysterious planet Omega 13.
Ghost in the Shell
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
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.
Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling Me
Margarita (voice)
Basara, on one of his frequent trips across the galaxy to spread the message of his music, folds in on an icy planet. The natives are hostile, and take him prisoner until he begins to sing for them and a little boy named Pedro recognizes his voice. They release Basara, and almost as soon as they don, a strange wailing voice comes from the nearby mountains. Basara and Pedro head out in Basara's valkyrie to investigate the noise. Little do they know, an ambush is waiting for them.
Princess Minerva
Yurisis Cheloria (voice)
Princess Minerva enters a tournament that offers the winner a fortune. But when her bodyguard gets kidnapped by an evil sorceress, things really start to heat up.
Ghost in the Shell: Production Report
Self
A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1995 classic anime, Ghost in the Shell.
Lupin the Third: Voyage to Danger
Karen Korinsky (voice)
After Inspector Zenigata is reassigned from the Lupin case and grows despondent, master thief Lupin the Third decides to help him get his old job back, teaming up with the old man to destroy the international weapon smugglers Shot Shell. Together with Lupin's long-time partners in crime, they steal a nuclear Russian submarine and enlist the help of a nuclear physicist named Karen, who keeps suspiciously eyeing Lupin's partner Jigen. If that weren't enough, Zenigata's Interpol successor is an assassin who aims to pick off the Lupin gang one by one.