Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)

Original title

海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス

Directed by

Satoshi Dezaki

Genre

fantasy anime and manga, science fiction anime and manga

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A super train travels under the sea carrying many characters from Osamu Tezuka's stories. Their adventures overlap as they work together to stop environmental destruction.

whimsicaladventuroushopefulfast-pacednostalgicearnestlighthearted

What happens

Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス, Kaitei Chōtokkyū Marin Ekusupuresu) is an anime television film created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, Ai wa Chikyū o Suku, which roughly translates to "Love Saves the Earth". The film contained a veritable "Who's Who" of manga creator Osamu Tezuka's notable characters. Each one had an important role, and many of them had individual, intertwining stories which would overlap with the ones of others. To coincide with the central theme of the charity program, the film emphasized on the dangers of environmental destruction, and that such disasters can be overcome by banding together. For the previous charity special in 1978, Osamu Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book. The year after, when the special was held again in 1980, Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created another film, Fumoon, based on Tezuka's manga Nextworld. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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