Harmony Gold is a television production and distribution company established in 1983. It is best known as the “creator” and main distributor of the anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 series Robotech

Robotech (TV series)

Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan, the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific...

. It also partially dubbed the Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995; later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the...

series in the late 1980s.

Harmony Gold also partly funded the controversial 1986 Shaka Zulu

Shaka Zulu (TV Series)

Shaka Zulu was a 1986 television serial directed by William C. Faure and written by Joshua Sinclair for the South African Broadcasting Corporation . It is based on the story of Shaka, king of the Zulu nation from 1816 to 1828, and the writings of the British traders who dealt with him...

TV series in South Africa in spite of economic sanctions. After the cancellation of Robotech II: The Sentinels

Robotech II: The Sentinels

Robotech II: The Sentinels was an attempt by Harmony Gold USA to continue the original 1985 Robotech television series. Only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a feature-length film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes...

, a number of the staff were recruited to work at Saban Entertainment. The company’s public profile then fell into a near-dormant state for much of the 1990s, and its flagship Robotech franchise also fell into a state of neglect. Harmony Gold appears to have rebounded on the DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 medium with the success of its Robotech series, released in partnership with ADV Films.

The company also has interests in real estate in the Southern California area, as well as a Los Angeles screening room.

Films

• Abe & Bruno (2005)
• American Strays
  American Strays
  American Strays is a 1996 American Comedy-Drama film which follows three interwoven stories of desert travelers as they converge on a small diner.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1996)
• Ball & Chain
  Ball & Chain
  Ball & Chain is a 2004 romantic comedy written by Thomas Mortimer. It was directed by Shiraz Jafri and produced by A. V. T. Shankardass. It stars Sunil Malhotra, Lisa Ray, Kal Penn, Purva Bedi and Asrani. It was filmed on location in Austin, Texas...
  
  (2003)
• Crazy Jones (2001)
• Dawn of the Mummy
  Dawn of the Mummy
  Dawn of the Mummy is a 1981 low-budget film direct by Frank Agrama, who also served as writer and producer on the film.-Synopsis:A group of fashion models travels to Egypt for a fashion shoot...
  
  (1981)
• Death to the Supermodels
  Death to the Supermodels
  Death to the Supermodels is a 2005 black comedy starring Jaime Pressly, Brooke Burns, Kimberley Davies, Taylor Negron, Matt Winston and Diane Delano. It was written and directed by Joel Silverman.-Plot summary:...
  
  (2004)
• Dirt
  Dirt
  Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin or possessions when they are said to become dirty. Common types of dirt include:* dust — a general powder of organic or mineral matter...
  
  (2001)
• Faster
  Faster
  Faster may refer to:*"Faster" , a song by George Harrison*Faster , a 2003 documentary film about MotoGP*Faster , a 2010 feature film*"Faster"/"P.C.P.", a double A-side single by Manic Street Preachers...
  
  (2003)
• Going Down
  Going Down
  Going down may refer to:* Going Down * Going Down , a novel* Going Down , written by Don Nix and originally performed by Freddie King, a mainstay of blues and rock musicians...
  
  (2003)
• The Lost World
  The Lost World (1992 film)
  The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the book of the same title by Arthur Conan Doyle.- Plot :It is approximately 1912. Junior reporter Edward Malone bungles into the office of Gazette editor McArdle looking for an adventurous assignment and is sent to interview Professor Challenger , whose...
  
  (1992)
• Return to the Lost World
  Return to the Lost World
  Return to the Lost World is a 1992 film, a sequel to the film The Lost World, which was released the same year.-Plot:Belgian scientist Bertram Hammonds, along with Gomez, who survived being injured in the first film, arrives in the Lost World to drill for crude oil. He and his men begin capturing...
  
  (1993)
• Queen Kong
  Queen Kong
  Queen Kong 1976 British comedy film spoofing King Kong. The film was never released theatrically in the UK, due to legal action by Dino De Laurentiis, producer of the 1976 King Kong remake. It got limited release in Italy and Germany. The film has since resurfaced on DVD.The film has a cult...
  
  (1976)
• Siblings (2004)
• Welcome to the Neighborhood
  Welcome to the Neighborhood
  Welcome to the Neighbourhood is Meat Loaf's seventh studio album, released in 1995 as follow-up to the popular album Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. The album went platinum in the US and UK....
  
  (2002)

Miniseries

• Around the World in 80 Days
  Around the World in 80 Days (TV miniseries)
  Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year...
  
  (1989)
• Heidi (1993)
• King of the Olympics (1988)
• The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988)
• Shaka Zulu
  Shaka Zulu (TV Series)
  Shaka Zulu was a 1986 television serial directed by William C. Faure and written by Joshua Sinclair for the South African Broadcasting Corporation . It is based on the story of Shaka, king of the Zulu nation from 1816 to 1828, and the writings of the British traders who dealt with him...
  
  (1986)
• Sherlock Holmes & The Leading Lady
  Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992 TV film)
  Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady was the first of two TV films made in late-1990 under the banner Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years. Harry Alan Towers was executive producer...
  
  (1990)
• Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
  Incident at Victoria Falls (1991 TV film)
  Incident at Victoria Falls was the second and final film in the proposed series of television films Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years written by Bob Shayne. It starred Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee as Holmes and Watson in old age...
  
  (1991)

Flagship Animation

• Robotech
  Robotech (TV series)
  Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan, the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific...
  
  (1984) (an amalgamation of three different anime series from Tatsunoko Productions)
  • Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)
  • The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
    The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
    was the third Japanese animated series released under the "Super Dimension" moniker by the sponsor Big West. This 1984 science fiction robotic mecha series followed Super Dimension Fortress Macross created by Studio Nue with Artland and produced by Tatsunoko, and Super Dimension Century Orguss ,...
    
    (1984)
  • Genesis Climber MOSPEADA
    Genesis Climber Mospeada
    is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan...
    
    (1983)
• Codename: Robotech (1984) (an extended pilot of the 1985 series)
• Robotech: The Movie
  Robotech: The Movie
  Robotech: The Movie is a 1986 American-Japanese science fiction animated film based on the Robotech TV series and Robotech franchise created by Harmony Gold USA...
  
  (1986)
• Robotech II: The Sentinels
  Robotech II: The Sentinels
  Robotech II: The Sentinels was an attempt by Harmony Gold USA to continue the original 1985 Robotech television series. Only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986, and a feature-length film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes...
  
  (1987)
• Robotech 3000
  Robotech 3000
  Robotech 3000 was Harmony Gold's attempt to reboot the Robotech franchise before the turn of the millennium. After the relative success of Voltron: The Third Dimension and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, a new Robotech sequel was proposed that would use 3D CG visuals, with producer Jason...
  
  (2000)
• Robotech: Remastered (2003-2004) (remastered and extended version of the 1985 series)
• Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
  Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
  Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles is the 2006 animated sequel to the 1985 Robotech television series. It was released on DVD on February 6, 2007.- Plot :...
  
  (2006)

Other Animation

• The Brave Frog
  Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog
  , also known as Demetan the Frog and The Brave Frog, is a 39 episode anime series by Tatsunoko Productions first aired in 1973.-Overview:...
  
  (1985)
• Captain Future
  Captain Future
  Captain Future is a science fictional hero pulp character originally published in self-titled American pulp magazines during the 1940s and early 50s.-Origins:...
  
  (1987)
• Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years
  Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years
  Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years is an animated science fiction television series produced by Harmony Gold USA. The series was created by Carl Macek by combining footage from Leiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock and Queen Millennia anime series.This is the second time the 1978 Captain...
  
  (1985) (an amalgamation of two different anime series from Toei Animation
  Toei Animation
  Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
  
  )
  • Captain Harlock
    Captain Harlock
    is a fictional character created by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto.Harlock is the archetypical romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life. He is as noble as he is taciturn, rebellious, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes, whether they be earthborn or alien...
    
    (1978-1982)
  • Queen Millennia
    Queen Millennia
    is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980through 11 May 1983 in both the Sankei Shimbun and Nishinippon Sports newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime TV series by Toei Dōga and broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 16 April 1981 through...
    
    (1981-1982)
• Casshan: Robot Hunter (1994)
• Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
  Tomb of Dracula
  The Tomb of Dracula is a horror comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 1972 to August 1979. The 70-issue series featured a group of vampire hunters who fought Count Dracula and other supernatural menaces...
  
  (1983)
• Dragon Ball
  Dragon Ball
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995; later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the...
  
  (1989?) (the first five episodes and movies 1 and 3)
• Dr. Slump
  Dr. Slump
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Shueisha's anthology comic Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984 which were collected into 18 tankōbon volumes...
  
  (1984?) (pilot of the first episode)
• Flower Angel
  Hana no Ko Lunlun
  , translated to English as The Flower Child Lunlun and Lulu, The Flower Angel is a magical girl manga by Shiro Jinbo, focusing on a theme of flowers in its stories. It was adapted into an anime by Toei Animation in 1979, and the anime was greatly successful in the West, particularly in Europe and...
  
  (1986)
• Frankenstein
  Kyofu Densetsu: Kaiki! Furankenshutain
  , is a 1981 Japanese animated television film based on Mary Shelly's novel and the Marvel comic book Monster of Frankenstein . In this 98-minute violent, adult-oriented film, the creature was portrayed as a misunderstood monster, who only wanted to be loved. The film was dubbed and released in the...
  
  (1983)
• Gatchaman
  Gatchaman (OVA)
  is a three-part original video animation based on the popular 1970s anime Gatchaman. It was released in Japan and the United States during the mid-1990s. This version of Gatchaman is set in the year 2066 where the evil leader of the nation of Hontwall is threatening to take over the planet...
  
  (1994)
• Goldwing (1980)
• Lensman: Power of the Lens (1987)
• Lensman: Secret of the Lens (1988)
• Little Women's Christmas Story
  Little Women
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...
  
  (1986)
• Lococomotion (aka. Tangoo & Ullashong by KBS / Seoul-Movie Co., Ltd )(2001)
• Magical Princess Gigi
  Magical Princess Minky Momo
  , also known as Magical Princess Gigi or Gigi or Benvenuta Gigi and Tanto tempo fa...Gigi in Italy, is the title of two different magical-girl anime. The first Momo, often called Sora Momo , aired from 1982...
  
  (1986) (aka. Gigi and the Fountain of Youth)
• Once Upon a Time (AKA Windaria
  Windaria
  -Release and marketing:Windaria was released theatrically in Japan on July 19, 1986. In 1987, Harmony Gold licensed Windaria for release in the United States, changing the title to Once Upon A Time and trimming the movie from its 101-minute running time to 95 minutes. The English language version...
  
  ) (1986)
• Seven Seas: The Legend of Blue (200?)
• Thumbelina
  Thumbelina
  "Thumbelina" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. "Thumbelina" is about a tiny girl and...
  
  (Sekai Meisaku Douwa: Oyayubi Hime) (the 1978 Toei Animation
  Toei Animation
  Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
  
   feature film, not the 1992 Enoki Films
  Enoki Films
  Enoki Films Co., Ltd. is a producer of anime based in Tokyo.Enoki Films also has a North American division, established in 1986, headquartered in the Encino area of Los Angeles, California, United States called Enoki Films USA, Inc.. Enoki Films USA acts as a middle-man between Japanese companies...
  
   TV series)
• The World of the Talisman (aka. Planetbusters, Birth
  Birth (anime)
  , also known in the West as Planet Busters or The World of the Talisman, is a 1984 anime original video animation , which was released on VHS and DVD in North America by, variously, Streamline and ADV Films...
  
  ) (1987)
• The Call of the Wild
  The Call of the Wild
  The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs...
  
  (Toei Animation
  Toei Animation
  Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
  
  , dubbed 1982 Japanese production)
• Timefighters In the Land of Fantasy
  Time Bokan
  is a Japanese anime series first aired on Fuji TV from October 4, 1975 to December 25, 1976 throughout Japan every Saturday at 6:30pm, with a total of 61 30-minute episodes. It was produced by Tatsunoko Productions, who later produced a number of spinoff programs as part of the "Time Bokan...
  
  (1987)

Documentary Series & Specials

• Animals of Africa (1987)
• Faster (2003)
• The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper (1988)
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2004)
• Walking After Midnight (1999)

Series

• Cobra
  Cobra (TV series)
  Cobra was an American television action/adventure series starring Michael Dudikoff. It ran for just one season in syndication.-Premise:Robert "Scandal" Jackson, Jr., is an ex-Navy SEAL who went A.W.O.L. after refusing to blow up an enemy command center housing civilians...
  
  (1993–1994)
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known...
  
  (1954, remastered 1999)

Legal issues

Harmony Gold is currently issuing cease and desist orders against sites displaying images and trailers from the upcoming MechWarrior

MechWarrior (reboot)

MechWarrior Online is an upcoming free to play, action simulation game under development by Piranha Games for the Microsoft Windows platform...

video game. The company claims that the images portray ’mechs that they own the rights to, according to a legal settlement from 1996. The video game developers claim that the machines portrayed are significantly different from the Macross

Macross

is a series of science fiction mecha anime, directed by Shōji Kawamori of Studio Nue in 1982. The franchise features a fictional history of Earth/Humanity after the year 1999. It consists of three TV series, four movies, six OVAs, one light novel and five manga series, all sponsored by Big West...

originals to not violate the 1996 agreement.

In addition, Harmony Gold’s license for Macross came from Tatsunoko Production

Tatsunoko Production

, often shortened to , is a Japanese animation company. Founded in October 1962 by acclaimed anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida along with his brothers Kenji and Toyoharu...

, but Japanese courts ruled that it was Studio Nue

Studio Nue

Studio Nue is a Japanese design studio formed in 1972 by Naoyuki Kato, Kenichi Matsuzaki, Kazutaka Miyatake, and Haruka Takachiho...

(creators of the series) that controls the Macross intellectual property. The license Tatsunoko was given was for international distribution outside Japan only, and does not allow them to control the intellectual property.