The Yamato Collection (Sub.VHS)

Release date: 1995-07-15
Suggested retail price: $99.95

UPC: 769071090036 769071090036

Description:
For collectors, this is the quintessential package: five feature films in the sequential saga that changed the way science fiction fans looked at animated space adventure. Here, for the first time, is the legendary quintet of Yamato movies, transferred from 35mm answer prints, with the original A&B tracks, including music, sound effects, and Japanese dialogue. New, clear English titles have been supered. The features run long, totaling 11 hours and 44 minutes of pure unadulterated Yamato gold.

SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO
It's 2199. Terrestrials live in underground cities to survive radiation from nuclear planet bombs. Japan's legendary battleship Yamato, is refitted as a space ship and warps 148,000 light years to Iscandar for a power plant that will cleanse Earth's atmosphere. This is the story that started it all. Here is where we first meet Susumu Kodai, Yuki Mori, Captain Okita, Dr. Sado, Shiro Sanada, IQ-9, Lord Desler and the mysterious Stasha of Iscandar. It's the feature version of Star Blazers' "Quest for Iscandar."

FAREWELL TO SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO
It's 2201. Kodai and Yuki postpone their wedding when the Yamato makes what may be its last voyage to the stars. This is what producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki intended it to be, but the movie was so popular he refused to let his crew or the Yamato die -- even though it was outgunned by an enormous dreadnaught disguised as a comet. This is the feature version of Star Blazers' "Comet Empire" series.

SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO -- THE NEW VOYAGE
It's still 2199-- only a month since Farewell Yamato ends. The overhauled battleship clashes with the Dark Empire on a mission to save Queen Stasha and Kodai's brother, Mamoru on the runaway planet Iscandar. But's it's Stasha who saves the Yamato in a typically Japanese act of sacrifice for the greater good.

BE FOREVER YAMATO
It's 2202. One year later, The Dark Empire holds Earth hostage with a terrifying hyperon bomb. Kodai and the crew warp to the Empire's home base, to deactivate the bomb and are amazed when Lord Scaldert tells them they have warped 200 years into the future and are back on Earth, now ruled by his ancestors. They decide to return in time through hyper-space to change history.

FINAL YAMATO
It's 2203. Reports of Admirals Okita's death have been exaggerated and he returns to resume command of the Yamato. Their final voyage is to seek and destroy Aquarius, the water planet, before it can flood Earth. Okita succeeds by ordering the crew ashore and creating a supreme kamikaze mission that returns Yamato to the same watery grave from which it was originally rescued in the first movie.

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