Final Yamato

Infobox Film
name = Final Yamato


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director = Leiji Matsumoto
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writer = Leiji Matsumoto
starring = Kei Tomiyama
Yôko Asagami
Shûsei Nakamura
distributor = Toei Animation
released = flagicon|Japan March 19,1983
runtime = 165 minutes
country = Japan
language = Japanese
preceded_by = "Be Forever Yamato"
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gross =
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amg_id =
imdb_id = 0140648

The Space Battleship Yamato saga (known as Star Blazers in the United States) ended in 1983 with the fifth theatrical movie, nihongo|Final Yamato|宇宙戦艦ヤマト・完結編|Uchuu Senkan Yamato Kanketsu Hen|lit. "Space Battleship Yamato: Final Saga". At a running time of approximately 165 minutes, Final Yamato currently holds the record as being the longest running animated film ever made.

ynopsis

The Gamilan Empire is destroyed by a chance collision of galaxies, while the Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita (who was cryogenically frozen after his apparent death in the first season), encounters the planet Deingil too late to save its humanoid civilisation from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Deingili, 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 Deingili are destroyed by Desslar and the remains of his people (in gratitude for the human crew's having honored the Gamilan 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). [ [http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=20] ]

Cast

*Kei Tomiyama as Susumu Kodai [ [http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=50] ]
*Youko Asagami as Yuki Mori
*Akira Kamiya as Shiro Kato
*Chika Sakamoto as Jiro Shima
*Goro Naya as Juzo Okita
*Ichirô Nagai as Dr. Sakezo Sado
*Isao Sakai as Daisuke Shima
*Jun Hazumi as EDF Officer
*Kazue Ikura as Dinguil Boy
*Kazuo Hayashi as Yasuo Nanbu
*Kenichi Ogata as Analyzer
*Kouji Yada as Talan
*Masane Tsukayama as Lugal II
*Masatô Ibu as Desslar Heikuro Todo
*Mikio Terashima as Sho Yamazaki
*Osamu Kobayashi as Captain Mizutani
*Reiko Tajima as Queen of Aquarius
*Rokuro Naya as Dinguil Officer
*Shinji Nomura as Giichi Aihara
*Takeshi Aono as Shiro Sanada
*Tarô Ishida as Lugal I
*Tatsuya Nakadai as Narrarator
*Tohru Furuya as Tasuke Tokugawa
*Yoshito Yasuhara as Kenjiro Ota
*Yuu Mizushima as Jiro Shimaerrorsource

References

External Links

* [http://www.starblazers.com/department.php?page_id=120 Starblazers Official website]
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* [http://search.varietyjapan.com/moviedb/cinema_17292.html Variety Japan] jp icon