Galaxy Express 999: The Movie

About Galaxy Express 999: The Movie

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.

Rintaro's Galaxy Express 999: The Movie is a 1979 animation science fiction film. The film is filed under space, train, space travel, and cyborg.

Masako Nozawa takes the lead as Tetsurô Hoshino (voice), Masako Ikeda as Maetel (voice), Yoko Asagami as Claire (voice), and Miyoko Aso as Tochirô's Mother (voice). At 128 minutes long, it arrived in August 1979.

The screenplay is by Fumio Ishimori and Kon Ichikawa. It streams on Crunchyroll in the United States.

Ghost in the Shell, Upgrade, and Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler make useful companions to Galaxy Express 999: The Movie, all filed under adult animation and transhumanism. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 83 votes.