Screened as part of NZIFF 2011

Space Battleship Yamato 2010

Supesu Batorushippu Yamato

Directed by Yamazaki Takashi

Kimura Takuya stars in 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.

Japan In Japanese with English subtitles
131 minutes CinemaScope

Director, VFX

Producers

Nakazawa Toshiaki
,
Hamana Kazuya

Screenplay

Sato Shimako. Based on the story by Nishizaki Yoshinobu

Photography

Shibasaki Kozo

Editor

Miyajima Ryuji

Production designer

Jojo Anri

Sound

Tsurumaki Hitoshi

Music

Sato Naoki
,
Steven Tyler

With

Kimura Takuya
,
Kuroki Meisa
,
Yanagiba Toshiro
,
Ogata Naoto
,
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki
,
Tsutsumi Shinichi
,
Takashima Reiko
,
Hashizume Isao
,
Nishida Toshiyuki
,
Yamazaki Tsutomu

Elsewhere

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. Militaristic nostalgia (the actual Yamato was a massive WWII battleship), goofy corporate solemnity (dig that salute) and try-hard social relevance (lippy female officers! eco-awareness!): it all adds up to a mega-mix of old-school interplanetary thrills, tailor-made for kids from seven to 77. — BG