Space Battleship Yamato

is a 1977 Japanese anime film directed by Toshio Masuda and Noboru Ishiguro. The film consists of various television episodes edited from the "Iscandar" arc of the 1974 Space Battleship Yamato television series. It originally had a new ending created for the theatrical release. In English-speaking countries, it was known by the title Space Cruiser.
== Plot ==
In the distant future, the war between the human race and the aliens known as the Gamilons has destroyed the Earth. Radioactive asteroids have devastated the planet making its atmosphere uninhabitable. In an effort to assist the Earth, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutralize the radiation.
In order to get this device, 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.
It originally had a new ending created for the theatrical release in which Starsha had died before the Yamato reaching Iscandar.
== Cast==
===Original===
*Jūzō Okita, Aruga Kōsaku - Gorō Naya
*Susumu Kodai - Kei Tomiyama
*Shima Daisuke - Shūsei Nakamura
*Mori Yuki, Fisherman's son - Yōko Asagami
*Dr. Sado Sakezō, Tokugawa Hikozaemon, Fisherman, Ghetto - Ichirō Nagai
*Mamoru Kodai - Taichirō Hirokawa
*Sanada Shirō, Berger - Takeshi Aono
*Desler, Tōdō Heikurō, Jupiter Base Commander - Masatō Ibu
*Domel - Osamu Kobayashi
*Starsha - Michiko Hirai
*Katō Saburō - Akira Kamiya
*Analyzer, Yabu Sukeharu - Kenichi Ogata
*Hiss, Sugiyama Kazuhiko, Jirō Nōmura - Keisuke Yamashita
*Schultz - Takeshi Ōbayashi
*Narration - Akira Kimura
*Kreutz - Isao Sakuma
*Command Controller B, Yamamoto Akira - Shinji Nomura
*Gale - Osamu Saka
*Ohta Kenjiro, Nemoto Akira - Yoshito Yasuhara
===English===
*Marvin Miller - Jūzō Okita, Narration, Additional Voices
*Rex Knowles - Jason Kodai, Additional Voices
*Paul Shively - Shane O'Toole, Additional Voices
*Marcy Goldman - Mori Yuki, Starsha
*Jerry Harland - Samuelson, Hiss, Additional Voices
*Larry Burrell - Lord Dessler, Additional Voices
*Dudley Coleman - Domel, Additional Voices
==Box office==
The film was a commercial success in Japan, drawing an audience of viewers at the box office, and grossing or . In 1977, Space Battleship Yamato outperformed Star Wars at the Japanese box office.
== Reception ==
In contemporary reviews, Variety declared the film as "with a few exceptions, strictly Saturday morning tv fare" that "should bore adults silly and, owing to jargon saturated dialog, confuse the six-to-12-year-old audience that might have appreciated it." The review commented on the animation, describing it as "flat, static, often poorly- synched and divided into segments for easy commercial insertion." The Monthly Film Bulletin stated that despite being "executed with considerable flair for piling disaster on ever more improbable disaster [the film] is mainly of interest as a cartoon that succeeds in capitalising on both Jaws and Star Wars, as well as conjuring memories of both Japanese glory and defeat in the Second War." The review concluded that the film "is so perfunctorily cobbled together and, on the whole, so indifferently animated [...] that expectations are almost immediately dashed."
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*Review of the English Language 'Space Cruiser Yamato' movie
Category:1977 anime films
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Category:Animated films based on animated series
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