Final Yamato
| Final Yamato | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tomoharu Katsumata |
| Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Starring |
Kei Tomiyama Yoko Asagami Goro Naya |
| Music by |
Hiroshi Miyagawa Kentaro Haneda |
| Distributed by | Toei Animation |
| Release dates |
March 19, 1983 (35mm) November 5, 1983 (70mm) |
| Running time |
152 minutes (35mm) 163 minutes (70mm)[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Final Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト・完結編 Uchuu Senkan Yamato Kanketsu Hen, lit. "Space Battleship Yamato: Final Saga") is a 1983 Japanese anime science fiction film and the fourth theatrical movie of the Space Battleship Yamato saga (known as Star Blazers in the United States).[2] At a running time of approximately 165 minutes, Final Yamato currently holds the record as being the longest running animated film ever made.[3]
Synopsis
The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita (who was cryogenically frozen after his apparent death in the first season), encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilisation from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race. When all seems lost, the Denguil are destroyed by Desslar and the remains of his people (in gratitude for the human crew's having honored the former Gamilon leader dead earlier in the film), and the Yamato is filled with tritiated water and detonated like a giant hydrogen bomb by Okita to divert the water stream. A great deal of time is taken at the end of the film showing the fragments of the Yamato repeatedly "sinking" beneath the waves in space, Okita going down with his ship. The unedited version also shows Kodai finally marrying his longtime sweetheart Yuki (and subsequently "consummating" their marriage).[4]
Cast
- Kei Tomiyama as Susumu Kodai
- Yoko Asagami as Yuki Mori
- Akira Kamiya as Shiro Kato
- Chika Sakamoto as Jiro Shima
- Goro Naya as Juzo Okita
- Ichiro Nagai as Dr. Sakezo Sado
- Isao Sasaki as Daisuke Shima
- Jun Hazumi as EDF Officer
- Kazue Ikura as Dingir Boy
- Kazuo Hayashi as Yasuo Nanbu
- Kenichi Ogata as Analyzer
- Koji Yada as Talan
- Masane Tsukayama as Lugal II
- Masato Ibu as Desslar / Heikuro Todo
- Mikio Terashima as Sho Yamazaki
- Osamu Kobayashi as Captain Mizutani
- Reiko Tajima as Queen of Aquarius
- Rokuro Naya as Dingir Officer
- Shinji Nomura as Giichi Aihara
- Takeshi Aono as Shiro Sanada
- Taro Ishida as Lugal I
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Narrator
- Toru Furuya as Tasuke Tokugawa
- Yoshito Yasuhara as Kenjiro Ota[5]
References
- ↑ Bandai Visual
- ↑ "Not quite yamato". StarBlazers.com. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ↑ "Final Yamato: The Producer's Message". StarBlazers.com. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ↑ "THE GRAND FINALE". StarBlazers.com. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
- ↑ "FINAL VOICES". StarBlazers.com. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
External links
- Starblazers Official website
- Final Yamato (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Final Yamato at the Internet Movie Database
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