Space Battleship Yamato (Sub.VHS)

Release date: 1995-10-15
Suggested retail price: $29.99

UPC: 769071060039 769071060039

Description:
 You hold in your hand the original adventure, the one that started it all. This is the first Yamato feature film, produced for release in theaters, where it broke attendance records (over 2,300,000 patrons) and launched four more movies in the legendary series.
 Space Battleship Yamato is the warp-speed version of television's first Yamato series, known in the U.S. as Star Blazers (Quest For Iscandar).
 This seamless motion picture format features the episodic adventure's • spectacular battle sequences • dramatic personal encounters • intimate moments first time warp scenes--and the suspense of an intergalactic race against time to save Earth from total destruction.
 The Yamato has only 365 days to make a 148,000 light year voyage from Earth to the planet Iscandar and return with a neutralizer that will cleanse Earth's irradiated atmosphere. To avoid nuclear fallout, survivors of a surprise attack from the planet Gamilus are living in underground cities--but the radiation is seeping down.
 On the 296,000 light year round trip, the Yamato survives oceans of concentrated sulfuric acid, a metal eating gas attack in space and battles with Lord Desler's fleet.
 It is in this seminal feature film that we first meet Susumu and Mamoru Kodai, Yuki Mori, Captain Okita, Dr. Sado, Shiro Sanada, IQ-9 and the mysterious Stasha of Iscandar.

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