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Space Battleship Yamato (1977 film)

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Template:Nihongo is a 1977 Japanese anime film directed by Toshio Masuda and Noboru Ishiguro. The film consists of various television episodes edited from the "Iscandar" arc of the 1974 Space Battleship Yamato television series. It originally had a new ending created for the theatrical release. In English-speaking countries, it was known by the title Space Cruiser.[1]

Plot

In the distant future, the war between the human race and the aliens known as the Gamilons has destroyed the Earth. Radioactive asteroids have devastated the planet making its atmosphere uninhabitable. In an effort to assist the Earth, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutralize the radiation.

In order to get this device, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey. The crew of the Space Battleship Yamato has only one Earth year to travel to Iscandar and back, or the human race will become extinct.

It originally had a new ending created for the theatrical release in which Starsha had died before the Yamato reaching Iscandar.[1]

Cast

Character Original English
Jūzō Okita Gorō Naya Marvin Miller
Aruga Kōsaku Unknown
Susumu Kodai Kei Tomiyama Rex Knowles
Shima Daisuke Shūsei Nakamura Paul Shively
Mori Yuki Yōko Asagami Marcy Goldman
Dr. Sado Sakezō Ichirō Nagai Unknown
Tokugawa Hikozaemon
Mamoru Kodai Taichirō Hirokawa
Sanada Shirō Takeshi Aono Jerry Harland
Desler Masatō Ibu Unknown
Tōdō Heikurō
Domel Osamu Kobayashi Dudley Coleman
Starsha Michiko Hirai Marcy Goldman
Katō Saburō Akira Kamiya Unknown
Analyzer Kenichi Ogata
Yabu Sukeharu
Hiss Keisuke Yamashita Jerry Harland
Sugiyama Kazuhiko Unknown
Jirō Nōmura
Schultz Takeshi Ōbayashi
Narration Akira Kimura Marvin Miller

Production

The film had a production budget of Template:JPY or Template:US$, surpassing Isao Takahata's The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968) to become the most expensive anime film up until then. In turn, its production budget record was broken two years later by Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin III film Castle of Cagliostro (1979).[2]

Box office

The film was a commercial success in Japan, drawing an audience of 2.3 million viewers at the box office,[3] and grossing Template:JPY or Template:US$.[4]

Reception

In contemporary reviews, Variety declared the film as "with a few exceptions, strictly Saturday morning tv fare" that "should bore adults silly and, owing to jargon saturated dialog, confuse the six-to-12-year-old audience that might have appreciated it." The review commented on the animation, describing it as "flat, static, often poorly- synched and divided into segments for easy commercial insertion."

The Monthly Film Bulletin stated that despite being "executed with considerable flair for piling disaster on ever more improbable disaster [the film] is mainly of interest as a cartoon that succeeds in capitalising on both Jaws and Star Wars, as well as conjuring memories of both Japanese glory and defeat in the Second War."[5] The review concluded that the film "is so perfunctorily cobbled together and, on the whole, so indifferently animated [...] that expectations are almost immediately dashed."[5]

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External links

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