In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on course towards the solar ...

Japan’s live-action adaptation of Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers in the U.S.) opened this past Wednesday in Japan and a five minute clip from the film has hit the net. I didn't grow up ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...

And while the producer’s target of 10 million viewers for the film is ambitious, an even harder task might be in convincing moviegoers in the rest of Asia that it is not a work of implicit nationalism ...

In Space Battleship Yamato, visual-effects expert Takashi Yamazaki ("Always – Sunset on Third Street" and its sequel) harnesses a reported $23.9 million budget to design a sleek futurist look without ...

In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface.

I remember this one. The cartoon has lasted several incarnations, including big screen adaptations in Japan. It was called "Space Battleship Yamato" in Japan but when it came to the States it was ...