Reiko Muto
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was a Japanese
voice actress
. She is best known for playing the voice of Elizabeth Taylor
in Japanese
dubbed
television and films, and playing main characters in Marvelous Melmo
(as Melmo), Astro Boy as Uran (Astro Girl in the English version), and Moomin (as Non Non). As a child, she found she enjoyed acting after joining the child acting troupe Gekidan Komadori.
Mutō died of acute heart failure on October 29, 2006 in Setagaya
, Tokyo, Japan.
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Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
voice actress
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Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...
. She is best known for playing the voice of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
in Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
dubbed
Dubbing (filmmaking)
Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...
television and films, and playing main characters in Marvelous Melmo
Marvelous Melmo
is a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered around Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers . While in Heaven the children's mother is given one wish...
(as Melmo), Astro Boy as Uran (Astro Girl in the English version), and Moomin (as Non Non). As a child, she found she enjoyed acting after joining the child acting troupe Gekidan Komadori.
Mutō died of acute heart failure on October 29, 2006 in Setagaya
Setagaya, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo in Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood within the ward. The ward calls itself the City of Setagaya in English...
, Tokyo, Japan.
TV anime
- Astro Boy (1963–1966, Uran)
- Princess KnightPrincess Knightis a Japanese manga that ran through four serializations from 1954 to 1968, as well as a 1967 Japanese children's animated series. It was dubbed into English and brought over to Western audiences in 1970, where it was called Choppy and the Princess. In 1973, this series was dubbed in Portuguese and...
(1967–1968, Hecate) - Sabu to Ichi Torimono HikaeSabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, sometimes translated as Sabu & Ichi's Arrest Warrant, is a manga series by Shotaro Ishimori originally published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday beginning in 1966. In April 1968, the series moved to serialization in the first issue of Big Comic, where it was published until the series ended four years...
(1968–1969, Midori) - Star of the GiantsStar of the Giantsis a sports manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and drawn by Noboru Kawasaki. It was adapted as the first sports anime television series broadcast in Japan, in 1968. It later spawned 2 anime sequels and different anime movies....
(1968–1971, Kyōko) - DororoDororois a Japanese manga series from the critically acclaimed manga creator Osamu Tezuka in the late 1960s. The anime television series based on the manga consists of 26 half-hour episodes. It was made into a live-action film in 2007....
(1969, Mio) - Kamui the NinjaKamui the Ninjais a shōnen anime produced by Tele-Cartoon Japan in 1969. It was broadcast in Japan from 6 April 1969 to 28 September 1969 by Fuji TV. Kamui the Ninja had 26 episodes with a running time of 22 minutes each one. The series was based on the manga The Legend of Kamui by Sanpei Shirato.-Plot:Kamui is a...
(1969, Tone (ep.8)) - Moomin (1969–1970 and 1972, Non Non)
- Attack No. 1Attack No. 1is a Japanese manga series by Chikako Urano. It also became the first televised female sports anime series in the shōjo category.The anime is an adaptation of Chikako Urano's 1968 volleyball manga serialized in Weekly Maragaret Magazine under the same name. Chikako was considered one of the...
(1969–1971, Michiru Sanjō) - Lupin IIILupin III (anime)is the first anime made after the manga series of the same name, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. It was directed originally by Masaaki Ōsumi and later by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. A pilot film, also directed by Ōsumi, was made in 1969, but a full series was not made until 2 years later....
(1971–1972, Linda) - Marvelous MelmoMarvelous Melmois a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered around Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers . While in Heaven the children's mother is given one wish...
(1971–1972, Melmo) - Saban's Adventures of Pinocchio (1972, Mustard Fairy Kasie (ep.8))
- Akadō Suzunosuke (1972–1973, Nagisa (eps.36-37))
- DevilmanDevilmanis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Demon Lord Dante. A 39 episode anime series was developed by Toei in 1972 and Nagai began Devilman as a manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen...
(1972–1973, Psycho Jenny) - Hazedon (1972–1973, Shīran)
- Dokonjō GaeruDokonjo Gaeru' is a manga and anime series created by Yasumi Yoshizawa.-Summary:While frog Pyonkichi is hopping in an empty lot in Nerima, Tokyo's Shakujii Park, middle schooler Hiroshi trips over a rock and squashes him. However, Pyonkichi is reborn as an imprint on the front of Hiroshi's shirt and now gives...
(1972–1974, Yoshiko Yamaguchi) - CasshanCasshanCasshan also known as in Japan, is an anime series created by animation studio Tatsunoko Productions in 1973, which was based on a serialization in Kodansha’s Terebi Magazine and Akita Shoten’s “Boken Oh” ....
(1973–1974, Midori Azuma / Suwani) - Samurai Giants (1973–1974, Rika Minami)
- A Dog of Flanders (1975, narrator)
- La Seine no HoshiLa Seine no Hoshiis 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...
(1975, Marie Antoinette) - 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother3000 Leagues in Search of Motheris an anime series directed by Isao Takahata and aired in 1976. It is loosely based on a small part of the novel Heart by Edmondo De Amicis, i.e...
(1976, Cristina Mequinez) - Ie Naki KoIe Naki Kois a Japanese anime series by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The story is based upon French author Hector Malot's novel Sans Famille in France. The anime is well known in Latin America, Quebec, France, Italy, the Arab world, Indonesia and the Philippines by the name of Remi.A movie version by the same studio...
(1977–1978, Milligan's wife) - 100 Mannen Chikyū no Tabi: Bander Book (1978-08-27, Queen Tasuka)
- Anne of Green GablesAnne of Green Gables (anime)is an animated television series, part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater. It was adapted from the novel Anne of Green Gables by Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. Produced by Nippon Animation in 1979, it was first broadcast on Fuji TV from January 7, 1979 to December 30, 1979...
(1979, Barry's wife) - The Rose of VersaillesThe Rose of Versailles, also known as Lady Oscar or La Rose de Versailles, is one of the best-known titles in shōjo manga and a media franchise created by Riyoko Ikeda. It has been adapted into several Takarazuka Revue musicals, as well an anime television series, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and broadcast by the...
(1979–1980, Countess Yolande de PolignacGabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de PolignacYolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she first met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France...
) - Hoeru Bunbun (1980–1981)
- Invincible Robo Trider G7 (1980–1981, Jilba (ep.27-33))
- Six God Combination GodmarsSix God Combination Godmarsis a popular anime series that aired from 1981 to 1982 in Japan, Hong Kong, and Italy with 64 episodes. Other loosely translated names are "Hexademon Symbiote God Mars", "Six God Union God Mars", and "Six Gods United As One Being"; sometimes spelling the title mecha as Godmars-Original story:In...
(1981–1982, Flore's mother) - Warrior of Love Rainbowman (1982–1983, Akiko Yamato)
- The Yearling (1983–1985, Ory Baxter)
- Katri, Girl of the Meadows (1984, narrator, Lanta's wife, Akki household maid)
- Maple Town (1986–1987, Christine / Mama)
- Hello! Lady LynnHello! Lady Lynnis the title for second season of the anime series, Lady Lady!!, produced by Toei Animation Co., Ltd. It consists of a total of 36 episodes and was aired from May 12, 1988 to January 26, 1989 on TV Tokyo. Based on Japanese shōjo manga Lady!!, by Youko Hanabusa.The voice cast of this series has...
(1988–1989, Isabel Montgomery) - Dragon Quest (1989–1991, Sophia)
- Sally the Witch (1989–1991, neighbor lady)
- Pygmalio (1990–1991, Garatia)
- Miracle GirlsMiracle Girlsis a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Nami Akimoto. It was adapted into an anime series by Nippon Animation in 1993. Tokyopop has licensed the manga for English release in North America.-Plot summary:...
(1993, Ameonna) - GeGeGe no Kitaro (1996–1998, Sachi)
- Kindaichi Case FilesKindaichi Case Filesis a serialized Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. They are written by Yōzaburō Kanari or Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Fumiya Satō...
(1997–2000, Shino Tatsumi) - Wansa-kun (1973, Mamī, Mimi's mother)
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OVAs
- Nightsong of Splendor (1989-09-25, Akiko Hashō (羽生燁子))
- Project A-ko 4: FINALProject A-ko 4: FINALis the fourth Project A-ko movie.-Story:The Alpha Cygnans—still searching for their "lost princess"--return to Earth, this time with a fleet of three thousand ships. A-ko and B-ko continue their rivalry, especially over Kei, which leaves C-ko feeling left out...
(1989-10-07, Kei's mother)
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Anime films
- Anju to Zushiōmaru (1961-07-19, Nezumi no Chonko)
- Moomin (1971, Non Non)
- Moomin (1972, Non Non)
- Yakyūkyō no Uta (1979, Kayo)
- Natsu e no TobiraNatsu e no Tobirais a 1975 Japanese manga by Keiko Takemiya. It is an early example of a shōnen-ai manga. It was originally serialized in Hana to Yume, published by Hakusensha, and it was re-released in 2000 by Kodansha...
(1981-03-20, Sara Veda) - The Sea Prince and the Fire ChildThe Sea Prince and the Fire Childis an animated film by Sanrio, based on the story by Shintaro Tsuji. It is said to be a loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet, itself a European version of many tales of star-crossed lovers in a variety of cultures and eras...
(1981-07-18, Temisu) - Queen MillenniaQueen Millenniais a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime TV series by Toei Dōga and broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through...
(1982-03-13, Rārera) - Arcadia of My YouthArcadia of My Youthis an anime film depicting the origin of Leiji Matsumoto's seminal character Captain Harlock. At one time, it was considered to be the central hub of the so called Leijiverse with other works such as Galaxy Express 999 and 1978's Space Pirate Captain Harlock television series occurring sometime...
(1982-07-28, Maya) - Crusher JoeCrusher Joeis a series of science fiction light novels by Haruka Takachiho and released by Asahi Sonorama from 1979 to 1983. During the late 1970s one of the founding fathers of Studio Nue, Takachiho decided that besides being a designer he would try his hand at penning novels...
(1983-03-12, Machua) - Golgo 13Golgo 13is a manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine since January 1969. In 1976, the manga won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga...
(1983, Laura) - Arion (March 1986, Demeter)
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