Space Battleship Yamato

Epic, action packed, huge budget, Japanese sci-fi adventure is firmly entrenched in the Star Wars trilogy's tradition of grand space battles, weird looking aliens and a young hero, plucked from obscurity and sent to save the universe...

"A blast from the past set in the year 2199, Space Battleship Yamato is a gleaming ¥2 billion live-action/CGI spectacular, the culmination of an internationally influential franchise that’s been generating television and animated movies in Japan since 1974.

"Earth is a radioactive wasteland, surrounded by fleets of humanity’s sworn enemy, the iron-plated Gamilons. The key to Earth’s resurrection may lie on Iscandar, a planet 148,000 light years away. Charismatic Kodai (actor, rock star, heartthrob Kimura Takuya) emerges from the shadows of an earlier fray to pilot the massive Yamato, a spaceship outfitted with a time-warping, wave-motion engine." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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