Space Battleship Yamato (film)

Infobox Film
name = Space Battleship Yamato


caption =
director = Leiji Matsumoto
producer = Yoshinobu Nishizaki
writer = Leiji Matsumoto
starring = Kei Tomiyama
Yôko Asagami
Shûsei Nakamura
distributor = Toei Animation
released = flagicon|Japan March 19,1977
runtime = 145 minutes
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
gross =
followed_by = "Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato"
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0204704

Space Battleship Yamato is the first theatrical movie based on the classic anime series (known as Star Blazers in the United States). Unlike the later films that would follow it, this is a compilation film consisting of various television episodes edited from the "Iscandar" arc of the television series. In English speaking countries it was known by the title, Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar. [ [http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=236] ]

Plot

In the distant future, the war between the human race and the alien race known as the Gamilons has destroyed the Earth. Radioactive asteroids have devastated the planet has making the planet's atmosphere uninhabitable. As a method to assist the Earth, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutralize the radiation off the planet. In order to accomplish this, 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

*Gorô Naya
*Okita Juzo
*Kei Tomiyama Kodai Susumu
*Shûsei Nakamura Shima Daisuke
*Yôko Asagami Mori Yuki
*Ichirô Nagai Dr. Sado Sakezô
*Taichirô Hirokawa Kodai Mamoru
*Takeshi Aono Sanada Shirô
*Masatô Ibu Desler
*Osamu Kobayashi Domel
*Michiko Hirai Starsha
*Akira Kamiya Katô Saburô
*Kenichi Ogata Analyzer, Yabu Sukeharu
*Keisuke Yamashita Hiss
*Takeshi Ôbayashi Schultz
*Horo Kimura Narration

English Cast

*Amy Howard Wilson as Nova
*Kenneth Messerole as Derek Wildstar
*Eddie Allen as Leader Desslok
*Gordon Ramsey as Captain Abraham Avatar
*Lydia Leeds as Queen Starsha
*Tom Tweedy as Mark Venture
*Eddie Allen as Dash
*Mike Czechopolous as Volgar
*Mike Czexhopoulos as Col. Volgar

References

External links

* [http://www.starblazers.com/department.php?page_id=121 Starblazers Official website]
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* [http://www.anime-games.co.uk/VHS/anime/yamato.php Review of the English Language 'Space Cruiser Yamato' movie]