When I was at Sri Petaling during my primary school years, I chanced upon a friend’s pencil box that had the picture of a spaceship named Yamato that looked like a battleship. I then hoped that Televisyen Malaysia would one day screen this 26-part anime series by Leiji Matsumoto, but then us kids growing up in the 1970’s had to be content with Saturday afternoon’s Malay-dubbed Blocker Gundan IV: Machine Blaster and From The Apennines To The Andes [母をたずねて三千里].
I have (ahem) obtained a digital copy of the original 1974 Matsumoto 26-parter but have yet to find the time to watch it. Until I saw this trailer of a live action version of the anime which starred the likes of Kimura Takuya and Kuroki Meisa released late last year. It was right impressive and I got to finally watch the film on Sunday night.
[…] a large number of the main cast, like Hashimoto Kōji (Kiyosu Kaigi), Yamazaki Tsutomu (Okuribito, Space Battleship Yamato), Tsutsumi Shinichi (Ore wa Mada Honki Dashitenai Dake) and Matsuzaka Tori (Kyo, Koi wo Hajimemasu, […]