One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (5.4)

Movie · 1978 · 1 h 32 min · Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Bander is a 17-year-old boy from Earth who lives on a distant planet, which is populated by human shape-shifters who feed off of vegetables and animal tails. Violence soon breaks out, as invaders launch an attack on Bander's new planet. This was Japan's first 2-hour animated film for television. The program received high ratings when broadcast as part of a set of 24-hour TV programs called "Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu" on Nippon Television. After a long gap since his last animated film for television, this work fully reflects Osamu Tezuka's desire to achieve theatrical quality with this production.

Directed by: Osamu Tezuka

Starring Yu Mizushima, Mami Koyama, 伊武雅刀, Iemasa Kayumi, Masako Oka, 大平透, 武藤礼子, Kyoji Kobayashi, Yukiko Nikaido, Kaneta Kimotsuki

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