The Space Battleship Yamato saga ended in 1983 with the fifth theatrical movie, Final Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト・完結編 Uchuu Senkan Yamato Kanketsu Hen, lit. "Space Battleship Yamato: Final Saga").[2] At a running time of approximately 163 minutes, Final Yamato currently holds the record as being the longest running animated film ever made.[3] A few sequences make use of Scanimate, a primitive computer effects system.
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 civilization 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 long-time sweetheart Yuki (and subsequently "consummating" their marriage).
Cast[]
- Kei Tomiyama as Susumu Kodai
- Yoko Asagami as Yuki Mori
- Goro Naya as Juzo Okita
- Isao Sasaki and Shusei Nakamura as Daisuke Shima
- Takeshi Aono as Shiro Sanada
- Shinji Nomura as Yoshikazu Aihara
- Yoshito Yasuhara as Kenjiro Ota
- Kazuo Hayashi as Yasuo Nanbu
- Ichiro Nagai as Dr. Sakezo Sado
- Kenichi Ogata as Analyzer
- Toru Furuya as Tasuke Tokugawa
- Mikio Terashima as Susumu Yamazaki
- Akira Kamiya as Shiro Kato
- Masato Ibu as Heikuro Todo and Desler
- Osamu Kobayashi as Captain Mizutani
- Jun Hazumi as EDF Officer
- Chika Sakamoto as Jiro Shima
- Taro Ishida as Lugal
- Masane Tsukayama as Lugal de Zahl
- Kazue Ikura as Dingir Boy
- Rokuro Naya as Dingir Officer
- Reiko Tajima as Queen of Aquarius
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Narrator[4]
Notes[]
- Edited stock footage from this film was worked into the 2009 film Yamato Rebirth.
- This film, being set in 2203 originally conflicted with the 2205 year stated in various publications for Space Batttleship Yamato III. But it is still acknowledged that the events of Yamato III still took place. No date was mentioned onscreen during the tv series but Final Yamato does make reference to the events of that series. The Roman Album and other print sources that mention the 2205 year are now considered apocryphal in terms of that date. The time frame of Yamato III is not explicitly stated but due to the technological advances mentioned in Be Forever Yamato, long distance travel was now instantaneous. Thus, the events of Yamato III were not the year long quests of the first and second series and need not have taken more than a few months. This makes it plausible for both Yamato III and Final Yamato to occur within the same year, albeit months apart from each other.
References[]
- ↑ Bandai Visual
- ↑ "Not quite yamato". ourstarblazers.com. http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/402/. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ↑ "Final Yamato: The Producer's Message". ourstarblazers.com. http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/51/. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ↑ "FINAL VOICES". ourstarblazers.com. http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/50/. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
External links[]
- Final Yamato (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Final Yamato at the Internet Movie Database
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| TV series | |
| Original Series: Space Battleship Yamato (Episodes) • Space Battleship Yamato 2 (Episodes) • Space Battleship Yamato III (Episodes) Remakes: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Episodes) • Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Episodes) Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Episodes) • Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 (Episodes) | |
| Films | |
| Original Series: Space Battleship Yamato • Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato 2: Compilation Yamato: The New Voyage • Be Forever Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato III: Catastrophe of the Solar System Final Yamato • Yamato Rebirth Remakes: Space Battleship Yamato 2199: A Voyage to Remember Star Blazers 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark • Star Blazers Chronicle 2202 | |
| Live action films | |
| Space Battleship Yamato • Star Blazers | |
| OVAs | |
| Yamato 2520 • Great Yamato #0 | |
| Manga | |
| Space Battleship Yamato by Leiji Matsumoto • Space Battleship Yamato by Yuki Hijiri • Space Battleship Yamato by Akira Hio Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage • Be Forever Yamato Space Battleship Yamato III by Takayuki Masuo • Space Battleship Yamato III by Hiroshi Aizawa • Final Yamato •
Space Battleship Great Yamato | |
| Comics | |
| Star Blazers • Star Blazers : The Magazine of Space Battleship Yamato | |
| Novels | |
| Space Battleship Yamato novelizations • Space Battleship Yamato Dawn: Aquarius Algorithm • Space Battleship Yamato Dawn: The Malignant Memory Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love Side Stories • My Heart is Like This | |
| Video games | |
| The Distant Planet Iscandar • Warriors of Love • Reminiscences of Iscandar • Revenge of the Dark Nebula Empire • Collapse of the Double Galaxy Super Robot Wars V • Space Battleship Yamato arcade game • Space Battleship Yamato for PC • Space Battleship Yamato for Game Boy Space Battleship Yamato for WanderSwan Color • Final Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 BFI Chapter 2: The Romance of the Endless Sea Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Iscandar • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Cosmo Guardian • Space Battleship Yamato 2199: The Last Hope 365 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Hero's Record • Space Battleship Yamato 2202: A Long Journey • Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow | |
| Radio | |
| Stereo Gekiga Space Battleship Yamato • All Night Nippon Space Battleship Yamato Special • YRA Radio Yamato | |