Space Battleship Yamato (1977 film)
Space Battleship Yamato | |
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Directed by |
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Screenplay by | Eiichi Yamamoto |
Story by | Yoshinobu Nishizaki |
Starring | Kei Tomiyama Yoko Asagami Shusei Nakamura |
Music by | Hiroshi Miyagawa |
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Distributed by | Toei Company |
Release date | August 6, 1977 |
Running time | 145 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥2.1 billion ($23 million)[3] |
Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie (宇宙戦艦ヤマト 劇場版, Uchū Senkan Yamato: Gekijōban) 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 which Starsha had died before the Yamato reaching Iscandar. In English-speaking countries, it was known by the title Space Cruiser.[4]
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.
Japanese cast[]
- Gorō Naya – Okita Juzo / Aruga Kōsaku
- Kei Tomiyama – Kodai Susumu
- Shūsei Nakamura – Shima Daisuke
- Yōko Asagami – Mori Yuki
- Ichirō Nagai – Dr. Sado Sakezō / Tokugawa Hikozaemon
- Taichirō Hirokawa – Kodai Mamoru
- Takeshi Aono – Sanada Shirō
- Masatō Ibu – Desler/Tōdō Heikurō
- Osamu Kobayashi – Domel
- Michiko Hirai – Starsha
- Akira Kamiya – Katō Saburō
- Kenichi Ogata – Analyzer / Yabu Sukeharu
- Keisuke Yamashita – Hiss / Sugiyama Kazuhiko / Jirō Nōmura
- Takeshi Ōbayashi – Schultz
- Akira Kimura – Narration
Box office[]
The film was a commercial success in Japan, drawing an audience of 2.3 million viewers at the box office,[5] and grossing ¥2.1 billion ($23 million).[3] In 1977, Space Battleship Yamato outperformed Star Wars at the Japanese box office.[6][7]
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."[8] The review commented on the animation, describing it as "flat, static, often poorly- synched and divided into segments for easy commercial insertion."[8] 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."[9] The review concluded that the film "is so perfunctorily cobbled together and, on the whole, so indifferently animated [...] that expectations are almost immediately dashed."[9]
Notes[]
- ^ Credited as Animation Director (アニメーションディレクター).
References[]
- ^ 宇宙戦艦ヤマト 劇場版 [Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie] (motion picture) (in Japanese). Event occurs at 1:53. 監督 - 舛田利雄 [Director - Toshio Masuda]
- ^ 宇宙戦艦ヤマト 劇場版 [Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie] (motion picture) (in Japanese). Event occurs at 2:14:44. アニメーションディレクター - 石黒昇 [Animation director - Noboru Ishiguro]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Live-Action Space Battleship Yamato Film's Cast Listed (Update 3)". Anime News Network. October 22, 2009.
- ^ "Flying off to Iscandare for the Cosmo DNX! Can we defeat the Gorgons?". StarBlazers.com. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved 2008-09-10.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Clements, Jonathan (2017). Anime: A History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 167. ISBN 9781844578849.
- ^ "The Making of Farewell to Yamato, Part 1". StarBlazers.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- ^ "The Making of Farewell to Yamato, Part 2". StarBlazers.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Willis 1985, p. 327: "Review is of a 107 minute version viewed in London on December 13, 1977"
- ^ Jump up to: a b Pym, John (1978). "Space Cruiser "(Uchusenkan Yamato)"". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 45 no. 528. London: British Film Institute. pp. 31–32.
Bibliography[]
- Willis, Donald, ed. (1985). Variety's Complete Science Fiction Reviews. Garland Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-0-8240-6263-7.
External links[]
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- 1977 anime films
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