was a Japanese

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and

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who had performed many anime openings, including 1964 hit theme song from ''

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'' and the theme from the 1972 anime series ''

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''. He performed songs in ''

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p. 359 (1998) () and was the voice of the main character called Pero in the anime film ''

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''. Ishikawa won the 1966

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in the Children's Song category. In 1968, he won an award at the Moscow Film Awards.Ishikawa Susumu
, Enkaphone Records (in Japanese), Retrieved November 20, 2010

Filmography

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'' (1969), Pero

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Susumu Ishikawa
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