Central Park Media was an American multimedia entertainment company based in New York. It was formed in 1990. A year later, the company began distributing anime titles through the company's licensing label U.S. Manga Corps. The company began distributing titles from other anime companies, like U.S. Renditions, The Right Stuf International, AnimEigo, A.D. Vision, Viz Video and Software Sculptors in order to create a national anime distributor to compete with Streamline Pictures. The company also distributed non-anime releases from Kit Parker Films and American Visions.
Central Park would create another label, Anime 18 in 1992, to release adult anime films, and would later buy Software Sculptors outright in the mid-1990s.
Several people were defected from CPM in the late 1990s. John Sirabella, the founder of Software Sculptors and former CPM employee left CPM, while other companies started national distribution itself, and some companies jumping ship to Pioneer Entertainment.
The company went bankrupt in 2009.
| Catalog number |
Title |
Country of origin |
Original year |
Length |
Version |
MPAA rating |
Film format |
Tape count |
Tape break placement (if applicable) |
Color |
Released |
Note(s)
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| 1037 |
Dominion Tank Police Act I |
Japan |
1989 |
40 min |
English-subtitled version |
R |
Academy |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
November 7, 1991 |
- Translation by U.S. Renditions.
- Subtitles by Ultra Video.
- Early copies were distributed through VPI Harmony and BMG Distribution.
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| Catalog number |
Title |
Country of origin |
Original year |
Length |
Version |
MPAA rating |
Film format |
Tape count |
Tape break placement (if applicable) |
Color |
Released |
Note(s)
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| 1015 |
Project A-Ko |
Japan |
1986 |
86 min |
English-subtitled version |
PG-13 |
Matted 1.85 |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
January 22, 1992 |
TBD
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| 1019 |
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer |
Japan |
1984 |
90 min |
English-subtitled version |
NR |
Matted 1.85 |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
November 1992 |
- Translation and subtitles by AnimEigo.
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| Catalog number |
Title |
Country of origin |
Original year |
Length |
Version |
MPAA rating |
Film format |
Tape count |
Tape break placement (if applicable) |
Color |
Released |
Note(s)
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| 1068 |
Project A-Ko |
Japan/UK |
1986 |
86 min |
English-dubbed version |
PG-13 |
Matted 1.85 |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
January 6, 1993 |
TBD
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| 1071 |
The Venus Wars |
Japan/UK |
1989 |
104 min |
English-dubbed version |
PG-13 |
VistaVision |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
October 20, 1993 |
TBD
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| Catalog number |
Title |
Country of origin |
Original year |
Length |
Version |
MPAA rating |
Film format |
Tape count |
Tape break placement (if applicable) |
Color |
Released |
Note(s)
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| 1091 |
Genocyber, Part 1: Birth of Genocyber |
Japan |
1994 |
46 min |
English-subtitled version |
NR |
Academy |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
March 2, 1994 |
- Copyright year incorrectly says "1993."
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| 1101 |
Genocyber, Parts 2 & 3: Vajranoid Showdown |
Japan |
1994 |
50 min |
English-subtitled version |
NR |
Academy |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
October 5, 1994 |
- Copyright year incorrectly says "1993."
|
| 1110 |
The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Part 1 |
Japan/UK |
1991 |
59 min |
English dubbed version |
NR |
Academy |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
September 7, 1994 |
TBD
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| Catalog number |
Title |
Country of origin |
Original year |
Length |
Version |
MPAA rating |
Film format |
Tape count |
Tape break placement (if applicable) |
Color |
Released |
Note(s)
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| 1292 |
Roujin Z |
Japan/UK |
1991 |
80 min |
English-dubbed version |
PG-13 |
Matted 1.85 |
1 |
N/A |
Color |
1995 |
- Dubbed into English by Manga Entertainment Ltd.
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