Known for Acting
Yoshito Yasuhara (安原 義人, Yasuhara Yoshito, November 17, 1949) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He is 168 cm tall and his blood type is B. He is married to the actress and seiyū Yuri Kimura (木村有里). Born in Aioi City, Hyogo Prefecture, he graduated from Himeji High School, a school attached to Toyo University. He is a member of Theatre Echo, a theatre troupe and talent management firm known for its comedy sketches.
Born
November 17, 1949 (age 76)
Birthplace
Aioi, Hyogo, Japan
Filmography
37 films, 41 shows


LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE
2023 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Lupin III competes with the Kisugi sisters to steal a triptych of paintings that once belonged to their father, and which hold the key to a long-unsolved mystery.


The Deer King
2021 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is upended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease attack, leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free, the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside but are pursued by nefarious forces. Intent on protecting Yuna at all costs, Van must uncover the true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom—and its possible cure.


The Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Summons the Stars
2017 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
In the story, the seasons have changed and it will soon be the second spring. Tatsuya and Miyuki have finished their first year at First Magic High School and are on their spring break. The two go to their villa on the Ogasawara Island archipelago. After only a small moment of peace a lone young woman named Kokoa appears before them. She has abandoned the Naval base and she tells Tatsuya her one wish.


Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc: The Chirps of Light
2012 · 46m
country: Japan
Shishio's plan is enacted while Kenshin and Misao help defend the city.


Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc: Cage of Flames
2011 · 46m
country: Japan
Although she's only sixteen and looks even younger, Misao Makimachi is already a skilled and competent member of the Oniwabanshu ninja clan. That's fortunate for Misao, because her onimitsu talents may be all that keeps her alive when a journey in search of the leader of the clan, Aoshi Shinomori, leads her instead into a face-to-face encounter with an even more dangerous man and a plot to overthrow the Meiji government! Quickly enmeshed in the affairs of the legendary assassin Hitokiri Battosai, now known as Kenshin Himura, wielder of the reverse-blade sword, Misao finds herself pulled into the middle of a deadly intrigue against Makoto Shishio, who is orchestrating the conquest of all Japan - beginning with Kyoto!


The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet
2006 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
In the distant future, the planets are now connected with a massive galactic railway system. The Galaxy Express 999 has crash landed on a mysterious planet. On board are The Conductor, Killian, Maetel, and Tetsuro, a ten year-old street urchin with a heart of gold. Now it’s up to the SDF Sirius Platoon to rescue them before the Herise Time Mystery—a rift in the deep axis of time and space—repeats.


One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
2005 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The Straw Hats visit a recreational island, run by Baron Omatsuri, who asks them to complete a series of ordeals if they wish to stay on the island. Luffy accepts and the Straw Hats work together to complete them, but as the island's mysteries unfold, their lives and friendships are put to the test. It's up to Luffy to stop the Baron's plot and keep his crew together.


Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
2004 · 34m
country: Japan
Dr. Octo who researches octopodes decides to take over the world as he deems the eight legged creatures a more suitable master species than humans. To do this, he takes an idol singer Sumire Hoshino (aka Perman #3) hostage. Mitsuo Suwa (aka Perman #1) likes the idol dearly (as he doesn't know the real identity of his Perman partner) and becomes so angry that he transforms to go rescue her. But fighting a giant octopus is more challenging than it looks!


Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
2003 · 33m
country: Japan
An origins and highlight film showing how Mitsuo met the alien that gave him the equipment to become a superhero (which for some reason was never explicitly shown in the two main anime, both just start with Mitsuo already having the powers), how he works together with the other Permans, and the rowdy fight with the antagonists.


Kindaichi Case Files : Deep Blue Massacre
1999 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
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.


The King of Minami 2
1994 · 45m
country: Japan
The second in a series of anime works depicting the activities of Yamikinya Manda Ginjiro, who is called "Minami no Ogre". Yanagida, a machine supplier who had lent money to Ginjiro, visited him. Yanagida had borrowed from Ginjiro the unpaid portion of the machine delivery fee to Tamura Iron Works, but Tamura Iron Works went bankrupt and was unable to repay. From Yanagida's story, Ginjiro senses that a professional sorter has moved behind the scenes, and finds out a man named Gennai, the sorter.


The King of Minami
1993 · 46m
country: Japan
The first in a series of original video animations based on the popular manga by Dai Tennoji and Rikiya Go. The main character is Ginjiro Manda, a man who runs a black market and is feared as "the demon of Minami" by those around him. Ryuichi Sakagami, who came to Minami with the dream of becoming a gangster, applied to be Ginjiro's apprentice. As his first job, Ginjiro orders Ryuichi to collect money from Kyozo Washioka, a disgraced executive of Naniwa-kai. One day, Ginjiro helps Washioka open a video game café, to win back the money he lost gambling and regain his honor within the Naniwa-kai.


Kawaguchi Kaiji's 9 Love Stories
1993 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
An OVA based on the work of Kawaguchi Kaiji consisting of nine independent stories, each animated by a different director. With Beatles music involved, somewhere.


Monkey Punch's Alice
1991 · 47m
country: Japan
Jirocho, the don of an expansive crime syndicate, is commanded by his dying father to kill a cyborg in the form of a woman who betrayed him. What follows are various attempts to capture and destroy his target, Alice, ranging from the surreal, the dangerous, and the erotic.


Little Polar Bear
1990 · 30m
country: Japan
Based on the beloved book, the polar bear cub Lars floats away on a patch of ice and ends up in Africa, where, with the help of his new friends, he finds a way back home to his papa at the North Pole.


The Tale of Genji
1987 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtainable object of desire: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.


Take the X Train
1987 · 51m
country: Japan
Ishihara Toru is an everyday guy with an on-and-off girlfriend and a position working for a train buff. Things become complicated when a ghostly vehicle dubbed the X Train begins to ride the rails, destroying everything in its path. Somehow, it seems that Toru is connected with the X Train by a strange power, which draws the attention of some very dangerous and power hungry people who would wield it for their own...


Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
1987 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.


Open the Door
1986 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
In modern day Tokyo, three university students, Negishi Miyako (Neko-chan), Saiki Haruka, and Yamagishi Keiichiro, have magical powers that make them feel like outcasts. They come together one night and are transported to another world. They open a massive door and Neko finds that she is the Princess Neryulla, who must defeat the evil Duran III to free her people.


Castle in the Sky
1986 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.


California Crisis: Gun Salvo
1986 · 45m
country: Japan
Carefree Californians Noera and Marcia find themselves at the center of a massive government conspiracy when they discover a mysterious object in the wreckage of a military convoy. Their search for answers leads them all the way to the heart of Death Valley, where a secret of international proportions (or bigger) is just waiting to get out.


Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage
1986 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.


Area 88 Act II: The Requirements of Wolves
1985 · 1h
country: Japan
Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.


Ninja Hattori-kun + Perman: Ninja Beast Jippō vs. Miracle Egg
1985
country: Unknown
The monster Zippo, who had an ominous prophetic dream and came to Tokyo worried about his childhood friend Hattori-kun, witnessed countless pink eggs raining down from the sky. It is the egg of a monster sent by invaders who are trying to consume the earth's plants for energy. Hattori-kun and his friends struggle to repel them with the help of Perman who rushes in?


Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal
1985 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.


Locke the Superman
1984 · 2h
country: Japan
When the villainous Lady Kahn starts building an army of super-powerful espers, Colonel Ryu Yamaki is dispatched to recruit the most powerful superhuman in the known universe to help oppose her. Unfortunately, the esper known only as Locke has either never heard the "with great powers come great responsibilities" speech or he simply doesn't care, and he refuses to leave his peaceful civilian life herding sheep. However, when Lady Kahn makes a preemptive move to take Locke and Ryu out of the picture, the irritated superbeing quickly changes his mind. Now the bad guys are about to learn that starting a fight with someone with super powers that include teleportation, a nearly indestructible force field and space martial arts was a very big mistake!


Final Yamato
1983 · 2h 43m
country: Japan
The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.


Perman: The Birdman Has Arrived!!
1983 · 25m
country: Japan
Mitsuo Suwa is an elementary school student who is not good at studying or sports. He happens to meet Birdman, a righteous alien who visits Earth, and is appointed as Perman No. 1, a superhero who protects peace on Earth. Perman No. 1 is entrusted with a helmet that increases his power 6600 times and makes his body immune to bullets, a cape that allows him to fly freely, and a badge that can also be used as a communication device and oxygen tank . Together with his partner, the chimpanzee Perman No. 2 , Perman No. 1 must face various villains and accidents. Then, in front of them, Mitsuo's classmate Michiko is kidnapped!


Tsushima Maru: Goodbye, Okinawa
1982 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
A documentary anime retelling the shipwreck of the freight boat Tsushima Maru, which was carrying 836 schoolchildren home in July 1944 when it was attacked and sunk by an American submarine. Produced by the surviving family members of the Tsushima Maru.


Techno Police 21C
1982 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost control. The citizens are terrified... and no one can stop the madness. Even the Techno Police, a special anti-crime squad, find the situation hopeless until a wise cracking cop with an uncanny knack for out-guessing the criminals joins the force. When a powerful experiment tank is hijacked, the Techno Police and their newest recruit go to work. Equipped with an ultra-sonic car and crime-fighting Technoids, the rookie cop sets out on a death defying high-speed chase through the streets... trying to capture the crooks and trying to stay alive. But no one is aware of the awesome powers about to be unleashed.


A Zoo Without an Elephant
1982 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
In 1949, after the war, Hidé and his sister Myoko are poor and live in a makeshift hut under the bridge and do their best to survive. When Myoko recovers from an illness, he offers to take her to the Zoo to show her the impressive elephant that marked him during a visit when he was younger. He will be angry to find that there is no more elephant, replaced by a cardboard reproduction. Sankichi, a Zoo employee will tell him the sad truth about what happened.


Be Forever Yamato
1980 · 2h 25m
country: Japan
The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.


Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
1979 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.


Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
1979 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Anime film based on the novel "813" by Maurice Leblanc.


King Fang
1978 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
The main character of the story is Fang, who was born to a hunting dog and a circus-runaway European wolf. Although Fang was raised by a human family, he is a wild animal after all, and is destined to live amongst nature. The story reaches its climax when Fang returns from the circus and faces his foe, a giant brown bear which killed his family.


Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
1978 · 2h 31m
country: Japan
The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.


Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus
1973 · 38m
country: Japan
Mimiko, Papa Panda, and Panny make friends with a baby tiger from the circus — just in time for a flash flood to throw the whole town into chaos.