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Masako Ikeda
Born: 1st Jan 1939 Tokyo, Japan - Died 3rd Mar 2026
Dept: Acting
Masako Ikeda (池田 昌子, Ikeda Masako; 1 January 1939 – 3 March 2026) was a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Tokyo, Japan. She is most known for the roles of Reika "Madame Butterfly" Ryuuzaki in Aim for the Ace!, Nodoka Saotome in Ranma ½, Maetel in Galaxy Express 999, Michiko in Harmagedon, and for being the Japanese voice-over actress of Audrey Hepburn.
Ikeda died from an intracerebral hemorrhage on 3 March 2026 at the age of 87.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 66
Film: 42 (64%)
Television: 24 (36%)
Remaining genres not in graph: TV Movie, History, War & Politics, Romance, Mystery, Crime, Western, War
Filmography
Apr 2018 (first aired)
This program presents Kyoto with its history of 1,200 years, numerous precious cultural assets such as World Heritage Sites, national treasures, and i ... view
Character:
MC (1 ep.)
Original title: 劇場版ウルトラマンジード：つなぐゼ！願い！！
2018
The Giant Artificial Brain Gilbaris is trying to eliminate all intellectual life forms throughout the universe. Ultraman Geed confronts the harsh fate ... view
Character:
Mother of Ultra (voice)
Mar 2012 (first aired)
When they were young, the brothers Mutta and Hibito promised each other they would become astronauts. Now, in 2025, Hibito has followed his dream to b ... view
Character:
Sharon Kaneko (voice) (99 ep.)
Original title: 脱出ゲーム ZERO
2011
Japan in the near future. Six prisoners, male and female, in prison, who have signed a "Special Pardon Pledge" are taken to a secret room covered in c ... view
Character:
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life’s awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, ... view
Character:
Narration (voice) (1 ep.)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999 ダイヤモンドリングの彼方へ
2009
In 2009, Tetsuro gives a Galaxy Express 999 pass to a boy named Kakeru. Now in 2035, another solar eclipse looms and Kakeru's future is unknown. ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Apr 2009 (first aired)
Anne Shirley goes through many adventures before she ends up in Green Gables. After losing her parents, little Anne is taken in by the Thomas family, ... view
Character:
Narrator (39 ep.)
2006
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 p ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Original title: ウルトラマンメビウス外伝 ヒカリサーガ SAGA 1 アーブの悲劇
2006
Ultraman Hikari visits Planet Arb, where a prophecy warns of its coming destruction. Guided by Ultraman King and armed with the Knight Brace, he faces ... view
Character:
Mother of Ultra (voice)
Apr 2004 (first aired)
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former pat ... view
Character:
British Couple (voice) (1 ep.)
Aug 2002 (first aired)
Thirty-three years ago, an alien force known as the "JAM" invaded Earth through a dimensional portal over Antarctica. Earth’s forces managed to driv ... view
Character:
Jackson Lynn (5 ep.)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999 虹の道標
2001
Short movie screened at the 2001 Kitakyushu Expo-Festival held in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. ... view
Character:
Dec 2000 (first aired)
The princess of a dying world, young Maetel faces starvation and death. Only machines can survive in the new environment, and one by one, an evil scie ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Jan 1999 (first aired)
Harlock Saga is a six-part anime miniseries by Leiji Matsumoto. An adaptation of Das Rheingold, it tells the story of space pirate Captain Harlock and ... view
Character:
Maetel (6 ep.)
Original title: 火聖旅団ダナサイト999.9
1998
After a meteor hits Earth, traitor forces have (for all intents and purposes) taken over, and the people are suffering. In the chaos, a boy named Tets ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Jun 1998 (first aired)
In a far distant future a would-be master race seeks to dominate the galaxy. Against these merciless Afressians, mankind has just one hope: the myster ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (4 ep.)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999 エターナルファンタジー
1998
Tetsuro believed he was freeing the Earth from the clutches of the Metanoid Empire’s tyranny. Yet one year after his return, Tetsuro is a prisoner o ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Original title: 英雄挽歌 孔子傳
1996
Born in the Chinese state of Lu in 551 B.C., Confucius is raised by his mother after his father dies when he is only three. He marries at 19 and enter ... view
Character:
Nanzi (voice)
Original title: X -エックス-
1996
It's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very ... view
Character:
Tooru
Jan 1995 (first aired)
Romeo, a poor kid living in a Swiss village, bravely sells himself into servitude as a chimney sweep in order to save his family. On his way to Milan ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (33 ep.)
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA
Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, War & Politics
Oct 1994 (first aired)
Six long months have passed. The Raalgon Empire has developed a horrible new type of weapon, and Tylor has been charged with the duty of intercepting ... view
Character:
Mrs. Kogure (voice) (10 ep.)
Original title: サイレントメビウス2
1992
After the death of her mother Katsumi wants nothing more to do with this horrible place known as Tokyo. Forced into staying an infuriated Katsumi retu ... view
Character:
Fuyuka Liqueur (voice)
Original title: ねこ・ねこ・幻想曲
1991
"Shiro" is a black cat who loves her family very much. She loves them so much she wants to help them out in times of need and trouble…but it’s dif ... view
Character:
Saeko Kimura (voice)
Nov 1991 (first aired)
Takeru Aoyama, a young man, continues his journey in search of the Three Sacred Treasures in order to save humanity, bravely contending against the Ch ... view
Character:
(Voice) (5 ep.)
Original title: うしろの正面だあれ
1991
Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. Nothing can prepare her for 1945, and the bleak times that are soon to come. ... view
Character:
Yoshi Nakane (voice)
Original title: サイレントメビウス
1991
In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an Ame ... view
Character:
Fuyuka Liqueur (voice)
Character:
Apr 1989 (first aired)
Ranma Saotome, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings ... view
Character:
Nodoka Saotome (0 ep.)
Original title: 妖精王
1988
Jack has moved to Hokkaido to get treatment for an illness, but he's lonely and unhappy. One night a man on a horse rides through his window to help h ... view
Character:
Queen Mab (voice)
Original title: 火の鳥 宇宙編
1987
This is the third part of "The Phoenix" series of the Kadokawa Haruki Office Co., Ltd. version. It is an animation version of the original story by Te ... view
Character:
Hi no tori
Original title: デビルマン 誕生編
1987
Akira is just another normal kid in modern-day Tokyo, until an old friend of his, Ryo, shows up and turns his world upside down. Akira learns that the ... view
Character:
Sumiko Fudou (voice)
Original title: 火の鳥 ヤマト編
1987
The story of a young prince and young princess from opposing tribes, as they struggle to deal with their lives and the hardship brought on by their po ... view
Character:
Phoenix
Original title: みんなあげちゃう♥
1987
Rokuro, a penniless student living in a run-down apartment, gets a surprise visit by the beautiful and quite mysterious Mamiya Yu. For some reason she ... view
Character:
Sakurako Mamiya
Original title: 火の鳥 鳳凰編
1986
The story of two men - sculptor genius Akanemaru, and former bandit Gao. Discover how the lives of the two men cross repeatedly throughout their lives ... view
Character:
Phoenix (voice)
Original title: セントエルモ・光の来訪者
1986
Inside Mercury, Japan builds a large-sized solar space power plant. The plant supports Earth with its large solar energy supply but suddenly there is ... view
Character:
Fū the Alien (voice) / Yūki's Mother (voice)
Jan 1986 (first aired)
Motherless since birth, Pollyanna was an ordinary happy-go-lucky girl, leaving peacefully with her father, the vicar. Then one day her life changes co ... view
Character:
Ruth Wetherby Carew (voice) (51 ep.)
Original title: 大自然の魔獣バギ
1984
In 1984 the Japanese government approved gene recombination experiments. Baggy is Tezuka’s response. A cute kitten escapes a lab, and is befriended ... view
Character:
Yoko Ishigami (voice)
Original title: ウルトラマン物語
1984
The film centers around Ultraman Taro growing up, and wanting to join the Ultra Brothers in battle. His family, however, thinks he is too young. Taro ... view
Character:
Mother of Ultra
Original title: 幻魔大戦
1983
From the depths of space he is coming... Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way ... view
Character:
Michiko Azuma (voice)
Feb 1983 (first aired)
After a motocross accident, Sho Zama was pulled from Japan into the mystical world of Byston Well, where he and others from Earth were reicruited by L ... view
Character:
Silky Mau (49 ep.)
Original title: 愛の奇跡ドクターノーマン物語
1982
After Oppenheimer, a brilliant surgeon, causes a traffic accident that takes the life of a child, he takes the alias Norman and begins living a dissol ... view
Character:
Apr 1982 (first aired)
Patalliro du Malyner VIII is the crown prince of the Diamond producing country of Malynera. Known for being both ugly, mischievous and with a bad pers ... view
Character:
Etrange (voice) (0 ep.)
エトランジェ (49 ep.)
Original title: ニルスのふしぎな旅
1982
Nils Holgersson is a young boy on a farm who is cruel to the animals. But when he catches the farm's little goblin it becomes one prank too many. He i ... view
Character:
(voice)
Original title: さよなら銀河鉄道999 -アンドロメダ終着駅-
1981
Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Apr 1981 (first aired)
The planet LaMetal begins a war of conquest with the Earth, and the only one who can defend the world from this threat is the Queen Millennia, a forme ... view
Character:
Cleopatra (42 ep.)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999 君は母のように愛せるか！！
1980
A remake of episodes 51-52 of the TV series, the 999 crashes in a large sentient blob along with another ship. The crew tries to save the ship's pilot ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Original title: 地球へ…
1980
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth. ... view
Character:
Mother Eliza (voice)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999 永遠の旅人エメラルダス
1980
A remake of episode 22 of the TV series, the 999 is attacked by the pirate ship Queen Emeraldas, which forces the train to a pirate planet. There Tets ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999 ガラスのクレア
1980
While travelling on the Galaxy Express with Maetel, Tetsuro befriends Claire who was forced by her mother to exchange her organic body for crystal gla ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Jan 1980 (first aired)
Nils Holgersson is a young boy on a farm who is cruel to the animals. But when he catches the farm's little goblin it becomes one prank too many. He i ... view
Character:
Nils' Mother (voice) (52 ep.)
Original title: 銀河鉄道 999 君は戦士のように生きられるか！？
1979
A remake of episodes 12-13 of the TV series, the 999 arrives on a planet where the entire populace has been turned to stone. The one person still aliv ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Original title: エースをねらえ!
1979
High school freshman Hiromi joins the tennis club because of her admiration for Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki is a senior, who's the best tennis player on the team ... view
Character:
Reika Ryuuzaki (voice)
Original title: 銀河鉄道999
1979
In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 99 ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice)
Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Sealed Room of the Inner Chamber
TV Movie, Horror, Drama
Original title: 日本名作怪談劇場 怪談 大奥(秘)不開の間
1979
In the final days of the Edo shogunate, a government commander enters Edo Castle to inspect the Ōoku. Ignoring warnings, he steps into a forbidden ro ... view
Character:
Original title: まえがみ太郎
1979
This is a folk-tale-like adventure story of an active boy on a quest for the Water of Life. The boy sets out on this quest after learning that the Wat ... view
Character:
ツバメトビ
Oct 1978 (first aired)
Heroine, Hiromi Oka, has just entered a high school famous for its tennis club. She has started playing tennis yearning after Madam Butterfly. She was ... view
Character:
Reika Ryuzaki / Madame Butterfly (voice) (25 ep.)
Sep 1978 (first aired)
In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immorta ... view
Character:
Maetel (voice) (113 ep.)
Jan 1978 (first aired)
Perrine is a young girl who lives in Bosnia with her Indian mother and beloved father – that is, until her father passes away, leaving her mother wi ... view
Character:
Marie Paindavoine (53 ep.)
Oct 1973 (first aired)
Hiromi Oka, a first-year student at West High School, joins the tennis club admiring Reika Ryuzaki, aka Mrs. Butterfly, and senior Todo. She is a comp ... view
Character:
Reika Ryûzaki (26 ep.)
Jan 1972 (first aired)
Mokku of the Oak Tree, also known as Mokku Woody the Oak Tree, or Saban's Adventures of Pinocchio in the United States, is a 52 episode anime series b ... view
Character:
Fairy (52 ep.)
Kenken (52 ep.)
1968
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship ... view
Character:
Original title: ある日わたしは
1967
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between pa ... view
Character:
Original title: 富士山頂
1967
A touching drama based on the novel of the same name by Eikichi Hashimoto. In the 23rd year of the Meiji period, weather forecasts were rarely correct ... view
Character: