The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
Direction
Toshio Masuda brings live-action grit to animated space warfare.
Score
Miyagawa's orchestral bombast will live rent-free in your head.
Production
145 minutes of hand-drawn spaceship porn at its peak.
Director
Tomoharu Katsumata
Kei Tomiyama
Susumu Kodai (voice)
Shūsei Nakamura
Daisuke Shima (voice)
Takeshi Aono
Shirou Sanada (voice)
Keiko Han
Sasha Kodai (voice)
Yoko Asagami
Yuki Mori (voice)
Shinji Nomura
Yoshikazu Aihara (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Sakezou Sado (voice)
Kenichi Ogata
Analyzer (voice)
Akira Kamiya
Shiro Kato (voice)
Taichiro Hirokawa
Mamoru Kodai (voice)
Miyuki Ueda
Starsha (voice)
Toru Furuya
Tasuke Tokugawa (voice)
Masatô Ibu
Heikurou Toudou (voice)
Osamu Kobayashi
Osamu Yamanami (voice)
Kazuo Hayashi
Yasuo Nanbu (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first Yamato film not based on a TV series, created from scratch as a theatrical epic.
The bomb-on-Earth premise eerily mirrors Cold War nuclear anxiety, with 1980 audiences watching literal countdown-to-doomsday fiction.
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