Alternate titles: Uchuu Senkan Yamato, Space Cruiser Yamato
Illustration by Hiroyuki Kitazume
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 US as Star Blazers: the Quest for Iscandar. This seamless motion picture 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, the survivors of a surprise attack from the Planet Gamilas are living in underground 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 neutralizer that will cleanse Earth's irradiated atmosphere.
Space Battleship Yamato is the warp-speed version of television's first Yamato series, known in the US as Star Blazers: the Quest for Iscandar. This seamless motion picture 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, the survivors of a surprise attack from the Planet Gamilas are living in underground 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 neutralizer that will cleanse Earth's irradiated atmosphere.