

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
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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