1979 · science fiction · adventure · space opera
Galaxy Express 999
Directed by Rintaro2h 8m1979
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. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.
Our read: Galaxy Express 999 (1979) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive science fiction · adventure · space opera entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured science fiction / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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