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Anri (杏里?), real name Eiko Kawashima (川嶋栄子, Kawashima Eiko?) (born August 31, 1961), is a Japanese singer and singer-songwriter, born in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She has written much of her own music as well as singing songs written by others such as her debut release Oribia o Kikinagara, by Amii Ozaki. Her song "Cat's Eye" was used as the first opening theme for the eponymous 1983 anime series Cat's Eye and debuted as #1 on Countdown Japan. It was one of the first J-pop songs used as an anime theme song, and it was included in a recent Dance Dance Revolution game. Her popularly skyrocketed following her appearance at the Red and White New Year's Music Special at the end of that same year.
Other hit songs include Summer Candles and Dolphin Ring, both of which became standard songs played at Japanese wedding and receptions. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Anri's albums were bestsellers. She is often cited as being one the first Japanese singers to fuse Britain and American music into j-pop. She has highly successful tours—one with attendance of almost 100,000—and toured Hawaii for the first time in 1987. She was given a boost by singing the closing theme for the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano. In 2002, she began collaborating with jazz fusion guitarist Lee Ritenour who produced her 2002 LP "Smooth Jam - Quiet Storm".
Actors: Naoki Tanaka (actor), Mutsuki Watanabe (writer), Makoto Hayashi (writer), Shûsuke Kataoka (producer), Koichi Okamoto (director), Yoshinori Horiguchi (producer), Chiharu Yamagami (writer), Masato Ibe (director), Tatsuya Nakamura (composer), Daisuke Amago (producer), Kazuhisa Shimoda (producer), Hayato Yamada (director), Mayuri Yamamoto (writer), Mitsutaka Endo (director), Tsukasa Shirakawa (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Shûgo Oshinari (actor), Masahiko Tsugawa (actor), Kazuma Suzuki (actor), Yoshie Ichige (actress), Kotomi Kyôno (actress), Naoki Tanaka (actor), Nana Katase (actress), Yoshimi Tokui (actor), Ryûichi Kosugi (actor), Takashi Yoshida (actor), Makoto Hayashi (writer), Mitsunori Fukuda (actor), Koichi Okamoto (director), Shûsuke Kataoka (producer), Daisuke Amago (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Robert M. Lepage (composer), Daniel Pilon (actor), Kazuko Yoshiyuki (actress), Claude Gagnon (producer), Claude Gagnon (writer), Suzana Fischer (costume designer), Nancy Klein (miscellaneous crew), Mahiru Konno (actress), Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon (writer), Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon (producer), Ai Takabe (actress), Esteban Sanchez (miscellaneous crew), Paul Cadieux (producer), Rhiannon Moller-Trotter (actress), Marlane O'Brien (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Tokuma Nishioka (actor), Mitsuki Tanimura (actress), Rinko Kikuchi (actress), Yûsuke Iseya (actor), Aimi Satsukawa (actress), Satomi Tezuka (actress), Issei Shibata (producer), Juri Ueno (actress), Toshinobu Matsuo (actor), Natsuki Okamoto (actress), Megumi Seki (actress), Taichirô Hirokawa (actor), Tomomi Miyashita (actress), Airi Taira (actress), Michiko Kitamura (costume designer),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy,Actors: Takahiro Sakurai (actor), Takehito Koyasu (actor), Akira Ishida (actor), Toshihiko Seki (actor), Tomokazu Seki (actor), Sôichirô Hoshi (actor), Akiko Hiramatsu (actress), Nobutoshi Kanna (actor), Masami Iwasaki (actor), Satoshi Hino (actor), Takahiro Hirano (actor), Hiroshi Tsuchida (actor), Taiten Kusunoki (actor), Chieko Higuchi (actress), Harî Kaneko (actor),
Genres: Animation, Fantasy,Actors: Minoru Kunizawa (director), Tatsurô Kashihara (writer), Ruri Tachibana (actress), Tomoaki Inaba (composer), Mina Kojima (actress), Kazutoshi Yamana (actor), Toshiyuki Higashida (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Ryôtarô Okiayu (actor), Chika Sakamoto (actress), Yuri Amano (actress), Houko Kuwashima (actress), Maya Okamoto (actress), Hiroshi Yanaka (actor), Yûko Nagashima (actress), Junko Shimakata (actress), Yumi Touma (actress), Etsushi Ogawa (writer),
Genres: Animation,Actors: Akiko Hiramatsu (actress), Megumi Hayashibara (actress), Michael Sinterniklaas (actor), Ken'ichi Ogata (actor), Nozomu Sasaki (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Toshio Furukawa (actor), Masaharu Satô (actor), Shigeru Chiba (actor), Yasunori Matsumoto (actor), Kaneto Shiozawa (actor), Shûichi Ikeda (actor), Ken'yû Horiuchi (actor), Miki Itô (actress), Aya Hisakawa (actress),
Plot: This eight-part OVA (Original Video Animation, or made-for-video) series is set in the giant megalopolis of MegaTokyo in the year 2033. The story chronicles the battles of four women in power armor against an evil mega-corporation called GENOM. BGC is one of the most popular series among fans of Japanese animation ("anime"), as well as fans of the cyberpunk genre.
Keywords: anime, artificial-intelligence, assassin, cyberpunk, cyborg, evil-corporation, mercenary, organized-crime, police, power-armor