Space Battleship Yamato known to many as Star Blazers or Space Cruiser Yamato is a popular anime the was born in Japan in the mid 1970’s. I have never seen any of the episodes or the many movies but I have heard about it enough from longtime anime fans to know that it is a classic. I might have just gotten my opportunity to be introduced to the geekgasm inducing sci-fi futuristic world of Space Battleship Yamato with the news that a live action movie is in development to be released in Japan in December!
Anime version of Space Battleship Yamato
Early Plot Summary
Set in 2220, the pic will depict the evacuation of 300 million people from Earth to avoid certain death from an expanding black hole. The Yamato, a space battleship, is leading the rescue fleet when it is attacked by an alien force. Check out the trailer below.
It will be a big budget film by Japan’s standards costing about 2 billlion yen or about US$20 million to make, I can’t help but chuckle though when I compare it’s budget to the cost of a American movie like Avatar. I do take heart though from knowing that Space Battleship Yamato is in the hands of the Japanese and not Americans like in the case of Astro Boy or that Dragon Ball recording thingy whose entire cast and crew should be launched into the sun, hmmm come to think of it maybe we can use Space Battleship Yamato to do that?
Space Battleship Yamato Official website
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Via – Collider
Well, the take-away could be that a lot of anime/manga series don’t translate well into film. Or maybe it just takes more insight into Japanese fiction than Americans have and a lot more money than Japanese film-makers are willing to spend. Either way, will be interested to see how this one turns out.
I thought Astroy Boy wasn’t too bad, but Dragon Ball was a total disaster. I think it’s best that stories from Japan stay in the hands of the Japanese when it comes to translating them into movies.
I think this movie will have a horde of female viewers mainly because it’s Kimura Takuya in the leading role.
Kuroki Meisa fans will most likely see it too.
Cowboy Bebop will be made into live action with Keanu Reeves as spike, Spielberg will make Ghost in the shell and Leonardo di Caprio will make Ninja scroll.
He was planning on making Akira but I think that was dropped.
Why is the official website just a picture? Not even the trailer is available… the clock keeps counting down and re-sets… [sob] whats up?
When the countdown restarts, you will notice the day counter decreases one day.
NEW YAMATO CM …. [gamer] http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qTS8ADDsAgA/
I grew up watching Starblazers in the early eighties and got the DVD set as an adult. When I saw this movie available I rushed out and bought it.
This movie is garbage.
They changed too much of the basic plot.
One of the biggest revelations of the show was that Gamilons were humanoids. The movie changes that.
Half the space combat scenes take place inside the yamato and they don’t show the combat.
Everytime the Yamato gets in trouble the wave motion gun is used, sometimes shooting at unseen enemies that blow up and are never seen
The crew dance around the bridge giddy like school girls when things go their way. It’s very unmilitary like.
The English subtitles include a good amount of R rated swearing so if you thought to show this to your young kids you wil be disappointed.
The overall story is super mellow dramatic with tons of hand wringing drawn out scenes of contemplative decision making.
They also had a little speech about the Yamato “sailing out to bring hope like it did in 1945” which I found insulting. Hope to who? The Japanese aggressors who raped and murdered their way across Asia? The ones who murdered 100,000 (NOT a typo) Chinese civilians as “punishment” because a handful of Chinese helped Americans avoid the Japanese troops after the Doolittle bombing of Tokyo? Japanese atrocities during WW2 have filled volumes. The least they could have done would be to show a multinational crew on board, something Star Trek did 50 years ago, at the height of the cold war. Do the Japanese not understand how evil they were just 2 generations ago?
Bottom line, this movie is garbage, front to back.