Ginga tetsudô Three-Nine

"Your imagination is the final destination"

Aug 8 1981 PG 2h 9m
Action, Adventure, Animation

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.

Plot

Tetsuro Hoshino, orphaned by the Cyborgs, lives in a slum in the shadow of their megapolis. He steals a pass for Galaxy Express 999, and is saved by a mysterious woman called Maitre, a living image of his mother who had been killed by the Cyborgs. Wearing a special pendant, he sets out for Andromeda where he can obtain eternal life and avenge his parents' death. On his odyssey, he meets a gallery of fantastic characters that help him exterminate the evil Star of Andromeda which had been giving mechanical bodies to rich human beings.

Written by

Leiji Matsumoto, Kon Ichikawa, Fumio Ishimori

Directed by

Rintarô

Cast

Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Yôko Asagami

Crew

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Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Toei Animation

Languages

Awards

1 win

Trailers
Galaxy Express 999 Movie Trailer
Galaxy Express 999 Trailer Roger Corman Version
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