Despite almost never taking a starring role, Duke Red is, without a doubt, one of Tezuka’s major stars.  Whether he’s been cast as a bandit, a pirate, a university professor or a judge, his classy aristocratic style and larger-than-life performances steal any scene he’s in.

Although he has a wide range of performance experience, he is usually cast in the role of the refined criminal mastermind, a politician with an ominous air, or a captain of industry with devious intent – and is more often than not surrounded by a gang of henchmen, including Hamegg and Acetylene Lamp, to do his bidding.

Duke Red first burst onto the stage with his debut (and namesake) role in Metropolis (1949) as the head of the notorious Red Party.  Since then he has gone on to many prominent and memorable roles, notably as Judge Porfiry in Crime and Punishment (1953), “Wild Bill” Hecock in Age of Adventure (1951-53) and Mr. Nikula in Black Jack (1973-83).  He also had a less well known, but humourously appropriate appearance as the title character in Cyrano the Hero (1954) – one of his only starring roles.

In the "Metropolis" film incarnation of Duke Red, he is a plutocrat who funds both the Ziggurat, a skyscraper-sized machine built to spread the mankind's power across the world, and the Marduk, a vigilante group for suppressing malfunctioning robots. He also commissioned Tima's creation, who resembles his deceased daughter, to act as the core controller to the Ziggurat.

In the great city of Metropolis, severe community structures and prejudice dominate a world where humans and robots live together. Unrest and violence increase with each new day. 
Searching for the scientist Dr. Laughton, suspected to violate human rights by trading organs, the Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive at Metropolis. In the scientist's laboratory, Kenichi discovers a girl without any memory of her past life. He decides to help her, so they run away together. His uncle follows him and penetrates the dark secrets of the city to find Duke Red, the man ruling from the shadows. Meanwhile, Kenichi desperately tries to protect the mysterious girl from the people hunting her. However, Duke Red and his adoptive son have their own deep reasons for chasing the girl. These reasons are connected to her true identity and the struggle for the domination of Metropolis... 
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Was the head priest at Jokei Temple in Kanazawa, Ishikawa

__Non-Anime Roles:__ 
~! Exdeath from Dissidia: Final Fantasy (VG, PSP
!~

Uncle of [Jacqueline](https://anilist.co/staff/156076/Jacqueline-Belle) and [Maximilian Belle](https://anilist.co/staff/116351/Maximilian-Belle)

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Francisco José Corrêa, also known as Chico José, is a Brazilian actor, voice actor, and dubbing director.

In 2005 his health became bad and he retired from dubbing, dubbing sporadically. Soon after, he had problems with the copyright owners, as he refused to give up fighting for his rights, and so he was banned from all dubbing studios, retiring.

In 2017, Francisco came out of retirement and started dubbing again.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Panthro (Thundercats)
- Lex Luthor (Justice League and Justice League Unlimited)
- Ivan Evans / Ebon (Static Shock)
- Slinky (Toy Story 1 and 2)
- Christopher Lloyd (Most of the productions)
- Judge Doom (2nd dub; Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
- James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine (2nd voice - 3rd-5th season - X-Men 1992)
- Singed, The Mad Chemist and Viktor, The Machine Herald (League of Legends)
- Sheldon Dinkleberg (1st voice; The Fairly OddParents)
- Flintheart Glomgold (1st dub; DuckTales 1987)
- Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnsworth (Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Atlantis: Milo's Return)
- Uncle Fester / Gordon Craven (2nd dub; The Addams Family)
- Silvio Manfred Dante (1st voice - 1st-4th season; The Sopranos)
- Skywarp (Transformers 1983)
- Firmus Piett (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back [1st dub] and Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return Of The Jedi [1st dub])
- Jeb (Home on the Range)
- Mr. Willard Tweedy (Chicken Run)
- Jerry (Monsters, Inc.)
- Dawson (101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure)
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Nuclear testing has resulted in the abrupt evolution of the Fumoon, a tiny but highly intelligent humanoid race on a small island, who are detected by Dr. Yamadano. Except for a few witnesses including the detective Shinsaku Ban, and the young men Rock and Kenichi and Kenichi&rsquo;s sister Pichi (Pinoko), no one believes him. The Fumoon are kidnapping animals from around the world to bring with them as they use their space ships to evacuate the earth, because they know Earth is shortly to be destroyed by an enveloping cloud of black gas created by a stellar explosion. The Fumoon intend to abandon mankind, but one Fumoon, Rokoko, who becomes good friends with Kenichi, tries to help Dr. Yamadano and the others to develop a space ship to allow a few humans to escape, with the help of Dr. Ochanomizu and Dr. Frankenstein. 
(Source: Tezukainenglish.com)

__Hobbies:__ Jazz & Tap dancing
__Nickname:__ 周ちゃん

Chikao Ootsuka was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator, with a career spanning 67 years.
Ootsuka died from ischemic heart failure at the age of 85 on January 15, 2015.

Father of [Akio Ootsuka](https://anilist.co/staff/95146/Akio-Ootsuka).

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In the distant year 2003, Japan is a technological utopia, and robots are everywhere. One such robot, Tobio, was built by the brilliant Dr. Tenma to replace his dead son. But when it soon becomes apparent that Tobio is an imperfect copy of his departed child, Dr. Tenma throws him out. He is rescued from the scrap heap by the benevolent Professor Ochanomizu, a crusader for robot civil rights. Now the little robot, renamed Astro Boy, is given a mission to defend Japan and the world from all manner of sinister threats. Using his seven super-abilities and 100,000 horsepower worth of strength to battle evil, Astro hopes to set an example to the world of the good which all robots are capable of. 

Note: Chapter count only includes chapters from the original 1952 to 1968 serial

In a not-so-far-off future a beautiful, artifically created girl -- unaware of her non-human background -- searches for the non-existent parents she believes must exist, wandering alone in a world populated by humans and by the slave-driven robots who serve them. 
(Source: Dark Horse)

Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

When nuclear testing creates mutated animals with amazing supernatural abilities, the world and its great superpowers are drawn into political conflict that could light the fuse for World War III. (Source: Dark Horse)

In a jungle in Africa right on the equator there was a white lion, Panja, who was called the "Emperor of the Jungle." But Panja is killed by a hunter. His wife, the Queen of Jungle, who has been caught by the hunter, gives birth to the son of Panja on a ship bringing them to a zoo. She names her son "Leo" and has him escape from the ship, saying, "Go back to Africa and become the successor of your father." Then a storm comes and the ship is overturned, and sinks with the Queen on it. Leo is washed up on the beach of a port town in the Arabian Peninsula, not Africa. This is where Leo's long adventure begins.


Rainbow Parakeet is a genius actor and a fantastic mimic, but also a thief. He can act out any role to the best of his abilities, while robbing the richest members of the audience during his performances. His methods are a mystery, even to the detectives charged with apprehending him: Police Inspector Senri and his daughter, Police Detective Mariko Senri. (Source: Wikipedia)

A man from the slums faces his doppelganger from the other side of the tracks; three guests visiting a hot spring are reminded of their past sins by a magical ringing bell only they can hear; stranded on the moon, an astronaut is stuck within a crater, sustained for a century by a mysterious life-giving gaseous fume the moon crater expels.
The Crater is a collection of self-contained short stories, ranging from horror, mystery, to science fiction. World renowned author Osamu Tezuka introduces you to an ominous world of sin and regret—you don’t want to miss this one! (Source: DMP)

In Russia, on the eve of the revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikovs’s own published essay - suggesting that people who are “extra-ordinary” are above such things as “right” and “wrong” - draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry … or his own guilty conscience? 
(Source: DMG)

In 1876, young Takanosuke Arashi is sent by the Edo government to deliver a top-secret message to the United States of America. When his ship is waylaid by pirates, Takanosuke is cast adrift with an eclectic group of passengers, including a dog with four names, and part of a treasure map. Then begins an adventure that will take Takanosuke around the world, from the wild-west, to old Morocco, to Baghdad. Who will get their hands on Napoleon's treasure first? (Source: eManga)

This work is a Manga aimed at adolescents, focusing on a young man who dreams of animated filmmaking, and puts his heart into it. 
A visionary boy named Miyamoto Musashi, who comes to Tokyo dreaming of producing Manga films (animation), visits a Manga filming company, but veteran Manga film writer Danmatsuma flatly tells him that the movement factor in his drawings lacks vitality. 
In the meantime, Miyamoto Musashi meets a boy named Sasaki Kojiro, who also aspires to produce Manga films. Although they become friends instantly, they later part after a quarrel, and became rivals. 
After being provoked by yakuza, Musashi meets Otsu, a daughter of the leader of the yakuza family. In retaliation, the yakuza burns his 50,000 animated films and his movie equipment, and damages his eyes. But Musashi's memories of his beloved horse Ao in his hometown encourage him, and he regains the courage to start producing Manga films featuring Ao.
 
(Source: Tezukaosamu.net, translated)

"Fossil Island" is an omnibus story featuring the dreams of three travelers who visit Fossil Island. They are Rock, a newspaper reporter, Kodama, a songwriter, and Tezuka Osamu, a cartoonist. 
There are many strange rocks on the island that look like human figures. After they see the rocks, the travelers have strange dreams associated with the rocks. Rock dreams that he becomes partner to Sherlock Holmes and fights against the phantom thief Lepin for a hidden sculpture. In his dream, Tezuka Osamu, by eating ancient foods, goes to a world where humans have animal brains and animals have human brains. Meanwhile, Kodama, in her dream, is robbed of her body by Eros, the god of love, and goes to Heaven. (Source: Tezukaosamu.net)

Based on the brilliant maverick doctor created by manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka. This prequel follows Black Jack when he was still a medical student in the 1960s.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

This work provides information on how to enjoy drawing Manga, while introducing three middle-length Manga stories and 23 four-strip Manga as examples. The very first scene of this Manga is the entrance examination of the Manga College, which is followed by descriptions of tools given by the Principal. The explanation of how to use these tools leads to the first illustrative story.
 
The first story is a story staged in the Civil War period of American history, in which Monster, who appeared in Angel Gunfighter, plays a villain. The second story is anecdotal: it is about a purse that can fulfill three wishes. The purse was given to Chieko, a poor farmer, by the deity of poverty. Next, examples of 4-strip Manga follow, including the "Diary of Ma-chan." The last story is an all-star-cast thriller Manga, featuring Kenichi, Higeoyaji, Rock and others.
 
(Source: Tezukaosamu.net)

Cyrano de Bergerac, a nobleman serving as a cadet in the French Army is a man of many talents, with a large personality and an even larger nose. An amazing swordsman, he is equally gifted in the areas of poetry and music. However, his brash attitude soon puts him at odds with Chancellor Richelieu and the Compte de Guiche – a couple of ne’er-do-well noblemen who are plotting to overthrow the king.
 
Meanwhile, Christian, a swordsman from the country, is in Paris. As his friend, Ligniere, is showing him around the city, the pair cross paths with the lovely Roxanne. Although the chivalrous Christian drapes his cloak (along with every other stitch of clothing) over a series of puddles to let Roxanne pass unsullied, he is much too shy to approach her directly.

When the meanest, orneriest, no-good black hat, known as the melon kid comes into town up looking for trouble, the townsfolk look to their sheriff, the famous civil war hero, the lemon kid to protect them. With the deadline to get out of town looming, can the two anagramic gunslingers overcome their shared history before it ends in a shoot-out?
 
Bonus story: in a bid to find a trade route linking the east and western united states, can the intrepid members of the 13th expeditionary party make it through the dreaded black canyon alive? (Source: DMG)

An anthology of three Tezuka oneshots from the late 1960's. 
1. Daibousou (大暴走/The Runaway Tanker) 
Newscaster Goro Tsukinashi is invited to board the world's first atomic-powered, computer-operated oil tanker, the Osakabe Maru. While on its maiden voyage, everything that could go wrong, does go wrong. Can the passengers survive aboard this voyage of the damned? 
2. Kojinkyou (虎人境/Land of the Tigermen) 
Television director Goro Ibukuro makes his living exploiting the talents of others on his most popular show, World's Cruelest Acts. After hearing about a tribe of "Tigermen" that live in the hinterlands of Borneo that apparently have a miracle cure in the form of a ceremony, he decides to set off and film them. However, he might have taken on more than he bargained for... 
3. Kiiro Makyou (黄色魔境/The Spaceman’s Base) 
Set during the Occupation of Tripoli during World War II, two American soldiers and a German soldier are held hostage by a Japanese boy who hijacks the Americans' Jeep. The boy's destination is the mysterious ruins of Wadan-Wadan, located in the middle of nowhere. What is the connection between the boy and these ruins?

In a bid to find a trade route linking the east and western united states, can the intrepid members of the 13th expeditionary party make it through the dreaded black canyon alive?
 
(Source: DMG)
 
Note: published as a supplement of Omoshiro Book 1954-06