Galaxy Express 999: The Movie 1979
Directed by Rintaro
- Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction
- 128 min
Your imagination is the final destination
In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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“Is Maetel the real protagonist?”
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Cast
- Masako NozawaTetsurô Hoshino (voice)
- Masako IkedaMaetel (voice)
- Yoko AsagamiClaire (voice)
- Miyoko AsoTochirô's Mother (voice)
- Toshiko FujitaShadow (voice)
- Yasuo HisamatsuAntares (voice)
- Makio InoueCaptain Harlock (voice)
- Tatsuya JoNarrator (voice)
- Ryoko KinomiyaQueen Promethium (voice)
- Kaneta KimotsukiConductor (voice)
Crew
- RintaroDirector
- Kon IchikawaScreenplay
- Fumio IshimoriScreenplay
- Leiji MatsumotoWriter
- Masatoshi FukuiDirector of Photography
- Izumi OhkumaEditor
- Masaaki HanaiEditor
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