A planet of stone people, one desperate thief, and a train ticket worth dying for.
A remake of episodes 12-13 of the TV series, the 999 arrives on a planet where the entire populace has been turned to stone. The one person still alive, a warrior, attacks Tetsuro and steals his pass, hoping to use it to escape and find a cure for his lover.
Direction
Three directors somehow create one cohesive melancholic vision.
Writing
Condenses TV episodes into devastating emotional economy.
Production
1979 hand-drawn spaceships hit different—wobbly, gorgeous, soulful.
Director
Nobutaka Nishizawa
Masako Ikeda
Maetel (voice)
Masako Nozawa
Tetsuro Hoshino (voice)
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Conductor (voice)
Miyuki Ueda
Lydia (voice)
Osamu Ichikawa
Julius (voice)
Hitoshi Takagi
Narrator (voice)
Akiko Tsuboi
Kanae Hoshino (voice)
Hidekatsu Shibata
Count Mecha (voice)
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Nutal (voice)
Koji Totani
C62-50 (voice)
Masaharu Sato
Bandit Guard (voice)
Mieko Nobusawa
Shadow (voice)
Osamu Kato
Bandit Boss (voice)
Osamu Kobayashi
Commander (voice)
Koji Yada
Officer (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
JP
