Genre:
Science Fiction / Action / Adventure
Format: DVD (Region 1)
Length:
135 Minutes
Language:
Japanese w/ English Subtitles
Release:
Voyager Entertainment
Availability
: Stocking Item - Usually Ships Within 24-48
Hours Unless Backordered
This is the original anime
space adventure, the one that started it all! This is the first YAMATO feature
film, produced for release in Japanese theatres, where it broke all previous
attendance records for animated films and launched a saga that is now legendary
the world over!
Space Battleship Yamato is the warp-speed version of television's first
YAMATO series, known in the U.S. as Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar.
This seamless motion picture format features the episodic adventure's most
spectacular battles, dramatic personal encounters, intimate moments, and the
unparalleled suspense of an intergalactic race against time to save Earth from
total destruction.
To avoid nuclear fallout, survivors of a suprise attack from the Planet Gamilus
are living in undergound cities . . . but the radiation is seeping ever
downward, and humanity's days are numbered. The Yamato has only one year
to make a 148,000 light year voyage from Earth to the planet Iscandar and return
with a neutraliazer that will cleanse Earth's irradiated atmosphere.
It is in this seminal feature film that we first meet
Susumu Kodai, Shima Daisuke, Yuki Mori, Captain Okita, Desler, the mysterious
Stasha of Iscandar, and all the others. Yamato survives one peril after another
on its long journey, with time counting ever downward to the end of life as we
know it!
