Urara Takano

Urara Takano (高乃 麗, Takano Urara, August 16, 1961) is a Japanese voice actress and narrator from Togane City, Chiba Prefecture. She also runs the talent agency Remax. Previously, she was attached to theater company Bungakuza and talent agency Ken Production. Her real name and former stage name is Hisako Takayama (高山 ひさ子, Takayama Hisako). Actress Anna Kirie (桐江 杏奈, Kirie Anna) is her daughter.

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Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)

Noah's Ark—the latest in VR technology and a milestone of human innovation—is set for a showcase to Japan's privileged children. They have the honour of beginning a new revolution in gaming; however, their carefree fun is cut short when a company employee is found ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Kodama
CAST:  Minami Takayama  •  Wakana Yamazaki  •  Kappei Yamaguchi  •  Akira Kamiya

Noah's Ark—the latest in VR technology and a milestone of human innovation—is set for a showcase to Japan's privileged children. They have the honour of beginning a new revolution in gaming; however, their carefree fun is cut short when a company employee is found ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Kodama
CAST:  Minami Takayama  •  Wakana Yamazaki  •  Kappei Yamaguchi  •  Akira Kamiya

Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005)

Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sakura are executing their mission of delivering a lost pet to a certain village. However, right in the midst of things, troops led by the mysterious knight, Temujin, attack them. In the violent battle, the three become separated. Temujin ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hirotsugu Kawasaki
CAST:  Junko Takeuchi  •  Chie Nakamura  •  Gaamon Kai  •  Akira Ishida

Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sakura are executing their mission of delivering a lost pet to a certain village. However, right in the midst of things, troops led by the mysterious knight, Temujin, attack them. In the violent battle, the three become separated. Temujin ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hirotsugu Kawasaki
CAST:  Junko Takeuchi  •  Chie Nakamura  •  Gaamon Kai  •  Akira Ishida

Twilight of the Dark Master (1998)

Tsunami is an ancient gaurdian fom days long ago when the Mother Spirit created Daemons and Gaurdians to aid a fledgling human race. Tsunami becomes involved with a woman who has just lost her fiance and her arm and now wants to figure out why this has happened ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akiyuki Simbo
CAST:  Toshihiko Seki  •  Akira Kamiya  •  Emi Shinohara  •  Atsuko Takahata

Tsunami is an ancient gaurdian fom days long ago when the Mother Spirit created Daemons and Gaurdians to aid a fledgling human race. Tsunami becomes involved with a woman who has just lost her fiance and her arm and now wants to figure out why this has happened ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akiyuki Simbo
CAST:  Toshihiko Seki  •  Akira Kamiya  •  Emi Shinohara  •  Atsuko Takahata

The Voice Makes a Miracle (2011)

A voice actor starts teaching at a voice acting school.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tomoki Sano
CAST:  Kohei Aoyama  •  Shigeru Chiba  •  Takuya Eguchi  •  Wataru Hatano

A voice actor starts teaching at a voice acting school.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tomoki Sano
CAST:  Kohei Aoyama  •  Shigeru Chiba  •  Takuya Eguchi  •  Wataru Hatano

A.LI.CE (1999)

When Alice Hayashi, the youngest person ever to go into space crashes her shuttle at the North Pole, she is thrown thirty years into the future. But her trip through time is far from accidental. The world is now ruled with an iron fist by Nero and his supercomputer ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenichi Maejima
CAST:  Kaori Shimizu  •  Ryo Horikawa  •  Chihiro Suzuki  •  Fumihiko Tachiki

When Alice Hayashi, the youngest person ever to go into space crashes her shuttle at the North Pole, she is thrown thirty years into the future. But her trip through time is far from accidental. The world is now ruled with an iron fist by Nero and his supercomputer ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenichi Maejima
CAST:  Kaori Shimizu  •  Ryo Horikawa  •  Chihiro Suzuki  •  Fumihiko Tachiki

Sakura Wars: The Movie (2001)

Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mitsuru Hongo
CAST:  Kumiko Nishihara  •  Michie Tomizawa  •  Mayumi Tanaka  •  Kazue Ikura

Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mitsuru Hongo
CAST:  Kumiko Nishihara  •  Michie Tomizawa  •  Mayumi Tanaka  •  Kazue Ikura

New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning (1996)

The Kimagure Orange Road series centers on a teenage romantic triangle: Hikaru and Madoka were best friends until they fell for Kyosuke, an understated hero with psychic powers. In 1991, the 19-year-old Kyosuke is struck by car and propelled three years into the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kunihiko Yuyama
CAST:  Toru Furuya  •  Eriko Hara  •  Hiromi Tsuru  •  Chieko Honda

The Kimagure Orange Road series centers on a teenage romantic triangle: Hikaru and Madoka were best friends until they fell for Kyosuke, an understated hero with psychic powers. In 1991, the 19-year-old Kyosuke is struck by car and propelled three years into the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kunihiko Yuyama
CAST:  Toru Furuya  •  Eriko Hara  •  Hiromi Tsuru  •  Chieko Honda

Pikachu's Vacation (1998)

Pikachu and the gang learn responsibility, teamwork as well as cooperation during their Summer vacation at Pokemon Island.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kunihiko Yuyama
CAST:  Ikue Otani  •  Satomi Korogi  •  Rikako Aikawa  •  Megumi Hayashibara

Pikachu and the gang learn responsibility, teamwork as well as cooperation during their Summer vacation at Pokemon Island.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kunihiko Yuyama
CAST:  Ikue Otani  •  Satomi Korogi  •  Rikako Aikawa  •  Megumi Hayashibara

Wanna-Be's (1986)

A tag-team battle between the elegant girls of Dream Team and the heavy-face-painted women of Foxy Ladies. Naturally, the Dream Team gets the crap kicked out of them, but not before one of them makes one strong attempt at lifting the 250-pound Foxy lady over her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yasuo Hasegawa
CAST:  Eriko Hara  •  Miki Takahashi  •  Demon Kakka  •  Eiko Yamada

A tag-team battle between the elegant girls of Dream Team and the heavy-face-painted women of Foxy Ladies. Naturally, the Dream Team gets the crap kicked out of them, but not before one of them makes one strong attempt at lifting the 250-pound Foxy lady over her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yasuo Hasegawa
CAST:  Eriko Hara  •  Miki Takahashi  •  Demon Kakka  •  Eiko Yamada

Genius Party Beyond (2008)

Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kazuto Nakazawa  •  Koji Morimoto  •  Tatsuyuki Tanaka  •  Shinya Ohira  •  Masahiro Maeda
CAST:  Arata Furuta  •  Akiko Suzuki  •  Shoko Takada  •  Urara Takano

Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kazuto Nakazawa  •  Koji Morimoto  •  Tatsuyuki Tanaka  •  Shinya Ohira  •  Masahiro Maeda
CAST:  Arata Furuta  •  Akiko Suzuki  •  Shoko Takada  •  Urara Takano

The Story of Fifteen Boys (1987)

Cast ashore on a desert island after a fierce ocean storm, fifteen school boys find their lives changed forever. Who cut the lines that sent their ship to sea with no captain or crew? Why are pirates after the boys' new-found friend? Will they ever get home again? ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshio Kuroda
CAST:  Daisuke Namikawa  •  Kazue Ikura  •  Urara Takano  •  Toshiko Fujita

Cast ashore on a desert island after a fierce ocean storm, fifteen school boys find their lives changed forever. Who cut the lines that sent their ship to sea with no captain or crew? Why are pirates after the boys' new-found friend? Will they ever get home again? ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshio Kuroda
CAST:  Daisuke Namikawa  •  Kazue Ikura  •  Urara Takano  •  Toshiko Fujita

Heart-Coloured Killer Ticket (1990)

Seiko, while suspended from school goes to Nagasaki, where she finds herself involved in a murder mystery.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Taku Sugiyama
CAST:  Miyuki Matsuoka  •  Toshihiko Seki  •  Mika Doi  •  Bin Shimada

Seiko, while suspended from school goes to Nagasaki, where she finds herself involved in a murder mystery.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Taku Sugiyama
CAST:  Miyuki Matsuoka  •  Toshihiko Seki  •  Mika Doi  •  Bin Shimada

Sukeban Deka (1991)

Saki Asamiya is given a chance to delay her mother's execution by working as an undercover cop and infiltrating Takanoha High School to investigate some mysterious deaths among the student body. Once there, she comes face-to-face with the powerful Mizuchi sisters, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Hirota
CAST:  Kazue Ikura  •  Akira Kamiya  •  Akio Otsuka  •  Kenji Utsumi

Saki Asamiya is given a chance to delay her mother's execution by working as an undercover cop and infiltrating Takanoha High School to investigate some mysterious deaths among the student body. Once there, she comes face-to-face with the powerful Mizuchi sisters, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Hirota
CAST:  Kazue Ikura  •  Akira Kamiya  •  Akio Otsuka  •  Kenji Utsumi

Violin in the Starry Sky (1994)

The story is about a boy and his dream of making the best violin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Setsuo Nakayama
CAST:  Akira Kume  •  Urara Takano  •  Shigeru Ushiyama  •  Shinya Ôtaki

The story is about a boy and his dream of making the best violin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Setsuo Nakayama
CAST:  Akira Kume  •  Urara Takano  •  Shigeru Ushiyama  •  Shinya Ôtaki

Go! Anpanman: Happy Birthday with Anpanman (1995)

An animated short movie about Anpanman an his friends preparing for celebrating a birthday.  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Ryusei Nakao  •  Keiko Toda  •  Urara Takano

An animated short movie about Anpanman an his friends preparing for celebrating a birthday.  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Ryusei Nakao  •  Keiko Toda  •  Urara Takano

Macross Plus: The Movie (1995)

Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shoji Kawamori  •  Shinichiro Watanabe
CAST:  Takumi Yamazaki  •  Unsho Ishizuka  •  Rica Fukami  •  Mako Hyodo

Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shoji Kawamori  •  Shinichiro Watanabe
CAST:  Takumi Yamazaki  •  Unsho Ishizuka  •  Rica Fukami  •  Mako Hyodo

One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzak! (1998)

While Luffy and his crew of Zoro and Nami are starving on their small boat, they are attacked by a large monster. Nami is taken away, while Luffy and Zoro wash up on shore. There they meet a young girl, Medaka, and learn of the sad history of the island. The evil ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Goro Taniguchi
CAST:  Urara Takano  •  Wataru Takagi  •  Megumi Toyoguchi  •  Jun Tanaka

While Luffy and his crew of Zoro and Nami are starving on their small boat, they are attacked by a large monster. Nami is taken away, while Luffy and Zoro wash up on shore. There they meet a young girl, Medaka, and learn of the sad history of the island. The evil ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Goro Taniguchi
CAST:  Urara Takano  •  Wataru Takagi  •  Megumi Toyoguchi  •  Jun Tanaka

Marco: Carry a Dream (1999)

Marco, a young Italian boy, is searching for his mother across Latin America after her letters mysteriously stop arriving. On his travels Marco encounters people who care for him and help him along his way; however, he must also face the evils of the adults who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kozo Kusuba
CAST:  Rumi Sakakibara  •  Chieko Higuchi  •  Takayuki Sugo  •  Osami Nabe

Marco, a young Italian boy, is searching for his mother across Latin America after her letters mysteriously stop arriving. On his travels Marco encounters people who care for him and help him along his way; however, he must also face the evils of the adults who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kozo Kusuba
CAST:  Rumi Sakakibara  •  Chieko Higuchi  •  Takayuki Sugo  •  Osami Nabe

Go! Anpanman: Gomira's Star (2001)

One evening, Mimi and students were stargazing through a telescope. When Creampanda peeped into the telescope, burning objects were falling. When Anpanman landed on one of them, Princess Yada appeared. The princess said that her home star of Yada was full of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shunji Ôga
CAST:  Keiko Toda  •  Urara Takano  •  Noriko Sakai  •  Ryusei Nakao

One evening, Mimi and students were stargazing through a telescope. When Creampanda peeped into the telescope, burning objects were falling. When Anpanman landed on one of them, Princess Yada appeared. The princess said that her home star of Yada was full of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shunji Ôga
CAST:  Keiko Toda  •  Urara Takano  •  Noriko Sakai  •  Ryusei Nakao

The Jungle Book (1990)

Watch Rudyard Kipling's world famous novel, The Jungle Book, come alive in this high quality entertaining animated feature. Join young Mowgli, and his animal friends Bagheera and Baloo, on their adventures in the wilderness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fumio Kurokawa
CAST:  Paolo Torrisi  •  Urara Takano  •  Pietro Ubaldi  •  Banjo Ginga

Watch Rudyard Kipling's world famous novel, The Jungle Book, come alive in this high quality entertaining animated feature. Join young Mowgli, and his animal friends Bagheera and Baloo, on their adventures in the wilderness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fumio Kurokawa
CAST:  Paolo Torrisi  •  Urara Takano  •  Pietro Ubaldi  •  Banjo Ginga
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