Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981)

Original title

さよなら銀河鉄道999 -アンドロメダ終着駅-

Directed by

Rintaro

Genre

anime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

15

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy travels on a space train across the galaxy in a future where people can become immortal by transferring their minds into mechanical bodies. The journey takes him to different planets and lets him reflect on what it means to be human.

melancholicdreamlikemeditativewistfulslow-pacedphilosophicalvisually lushatmospheric

What happens

Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999（スリーナイン）, Ginga Tetsudō Surī Nain; "999" read as "Three Nine") is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, later adapted into a number of anime films and television series. It is set in a spacefaring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions with perfect fidelity into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality. The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981. Matsumoto was inspired to create Galaxy Express 999 by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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