Galaxy Express 999 (movie)

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Alternative title:
Galaxy Express
Galaxy Express 999, Le Film (French)
Ginga Tetsudo 999 <Three-Nine> (Japanese)
銀河鉄道９９９ (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: After the death of his mother at the hands of the evil robot Count Mecha, young Tetsuro has become a delinquent street urchin who dreams only of revenge. Tetsuro lives in a far future world in which humans have the choice to travel to another planet where they can exchange their bodies for immortal, robotic counterparts. His goal is to someday acquire (through theft) enough money to board the Galaxy Express 999, a train which is capable of traveling through space, and which will take him to the planet of robots. One day, after escaping from the police, he meets the beautiful Maetel, who resembles his mother. She offers to take him on the Galaxy Express 999 to get a robotic body and to get revenge on Count Mecha. Along the journey, the two meet many varied people (including Captain Harlock and Queen Emeraldas), and Tetsuro learns what it means to be human.
User Ratings: 409 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 73 votes (sub:39, dub:28, raw:3, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 92 votes (sub:51, dub:34, edit.dub:3, raw:2, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 97 votes (sub:51, dub:34, ?:4, edit.dub:1, others:7
2 French subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Good: 66 votes (sub:42, dub:19, ?:2, edit.dub:1, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 30 votes (dub:17, sub:12, edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 23 votes (dub:11, sub:10, ?:2)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:3, dub:3, edit.dub:1)
 Weak: 13 votes (sub:9, dub:3, ?:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (edit.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (dub:3, ?:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 871 users, rank: #1352 (of 8784)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.738 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.9773, rank: #1117 (of 8906)
Weighted mean: 7.674 (Very good−), rank: #1122 (of 8906) (seen all: 7.75 / seen some: 6.09 / won't finish: 3.41)
Bayesian estimate: 7.669 (Very good−), rank: #868 (of 6766)
Running time: 128 minutes
Vintage: 1979-07-21
Premiere date:
1979-08-04 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 5
Opening Theme:
"Ginga Tetsudou 999" by Isao Sasaki 
Ending Theme:
"The Galaxy Express 999" by Godiego
Insert song:
"Taking Off!" (テイキング・オフ!) by Godeigo
"Yasashiku Shinaide" (やさしくしないで) by Kumiko Kaori
Official website:
劇場版 銀河鉄道９９９ (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Galaxy Express 999: The Movie (Blu-ray) 2019-02-26 (from $22.46)
DVD (Region 1)
    Galaxy Express 999 (DVD) 2011-06-28 (from $14.96)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Rintaro
Script: Fumio Ishimori
Music:
Nozomi Aoki
Yukihide Takekawa 
Original creator: Leiji Matsumoto
Character Design: Kazuo Komatsubara
Art:
Tadao Kubota
Takamura Mukuo
Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara
Mechanical design:
Katsumi Itabashi
Kazutaka Miyatake (Arcadia)
Executive producer: Chiaki Imada

Assistant Animation Director: Kōichi Tsunoda
Assistant Art Director: Akira Yamakawa
Assistant Director:
Masayuki Oozeki
Takao Yoshizawa
Background Art:
Akira Yamaguchi
Emiko Kashige
Kenji Makimoto
Kenji Matsumoto
Masazumi Matsumiya
Masuo Nakayama
Shizuko Kawamura
Takafumi Katou
Yasushi Nakamura
Yoshiharu Ishigaki
Camera:
Masatoshi Fukui
Toshio Katayama
Yukio Katayama
Editing:
Izumi Okuma
Masaaki Hanai
In-Between Animation:
Hiromi Seino
Keiko Koizumi
Keiko Matsumura
Keiko Nagai
Kimiharu Obata
Kimiko Tamazawa
Mao Takahashi
Mari Okuda
Masahiko Imai
Momoko Ueno
Nobuhiro Aihara
Noriko Hara
Reiko Kurihara
Tadashi Fukuda
Takenori Mihara
Toru Yamada
Yasuhiro Nakura
Yasushi Hirakawa
Yoshie Komatsu
Yuka Hotani
Yumiko Hayahara
Yuri Handa
Yuzumi Enosawa
In-Between Check: Yutaka Arai
Insert Song Performance: Kumiko Kaori
Key Animation:
Chūichi Iguchi
Chūji Nakajima
Eikichi Takahashi
Emiko Tsukima
Hiroshi Oikawa
Johji Manabe
Kazuhide Tomonaga
Kenzo Koizumi
Nobumichi Kawamura
Reiko Kuwahara
Shigeo Matoba
Tomeko Horikawa
Yoshinobu Inano
Yoshinori Kanada
Yoshinori Kanemori
Orchestra Conductor: Hiroshi Kumagai
Planning:
Ken Ariga
Leiji Matsumoto
Yoshio Takami
Production manager: Saburo Yokoi
Recording:
Kenji Ninomiya
Masao Kokubo
Masao Ōkubo 
Sound Effects: Akihiko Matsuda
Special Effects:
Noboru Sekiai
Shouji Sato
Supervision: Kon Ichikawa
Theme Song Arrangement:
Mickie Yoshino
Theme Song Composition: Yukihide Takekawa
Theme Song Lyrics:
Keisuke Yamakawa
Keisuke Yamashita 
Yoko Narahashi
Theme Song Performance: Godiego
Trace:
Reiko Igarashi
Sonoe Sakano
Xerography: Tsutomu Tominaga
Masako Ikeda as Maetel
Masako Nozawa as Tetsurō Hoshino

Gorō Naya as Doctor Ban
Hidekatsu Shibata as Count Mecha
Kaneta Kimotsuki as Conductor
Kei Tomiyama as Tochirō Ōyama
Makio Inoue as Captain Harlock
Noriko Ohara as Ryūzu
Reiko Tajima as Emeraldas
Ryoko Kinomiya as Promethium
Yasuo Hisamatsu as Antares
Youko Asagami as Claire

Akiko Tsuboi as Kanae Hoshino (Tetsurō's mother)
Banjou Ginga as
Captian of the Guard
Lactose Intolerant Thug
Hidekatsu Shibata as Kikai Hakushaku (Count Mecha)
Kouji Totani as Bandit
Miyoko Asou as Setsuko Ōyama (Tochiro's mother)
Noriko Ohara as Mime
Ryūji Saikachi as Bartender
Tatsuya Jo as Narrator
Toshiko Fujita as Shadow

Kouji Totani
Masako Sugaya
Osamu Katō
Takashi Tanaka
Toshiyuki Yamamoto
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Screenplay:
Paul Grogan (New World dub)
Trish Ledoux
Art Director: Yoshiyuki Higuchi
Translation: Takayuki Karahashi
Executive producer:
Roger Corman (New World dub)
Seiji Horibuchi
Producer:
Roger Corman
Toshifumi Yoshida

Dialogue Director: Karl Willems
Dialogue Editing:
Tim Bavis
Travis Smith
Editing:
R.J. Kizer (New World dub)
Skip Schoolnik (New World dub)
Packaging Design: Hidemi Sahara
Production Coordination: Diana Gage
Promotion/Publicity: Bob Ryan
Re-Recording Mixing: Kelly Frey
Recording Assistant: Trevor Smith
Theme Song Lyrics: Renee Feldman (New World dub)
B.J. Ward as Joey Hanakanabobakananda Smith (New World dub)
Fay McKay as Maetel (New World dub)
Kathleen Barr as Maetel
Saffron Henderson as Tetsuro

B.J. Ward as Cpt. Emeraldas (New World dub)
Corey Burton as The Conductor (New World dub)
John Payne as Tochiro
Nicole Oliver as Emeraldas
Scott McNeil as Harlock
Tony Pope as Olaf (New World dub)

Daphne Goldrick as Tochiro's Mother
Don Brown as
Antares
Narrator
Gerard Plunkett as Dr. Ban
Jane Perry as Shadow
Janyse Jaud as Claire
Kathleen Barr as
Prometheum
Tetsuro's Mother
Paul Dobson as Count Mecha
Terry Klassen as The Conductor
Tony Pope as Cpt. Warlock (New World dub)
Willow Johnson as Ryuzu

Booker Bradshaw (New World dub)
Dicey Adams (New World dub)
Gary Seegar (New World dub)
Jill Fisher (New World dub)
Karl Willems
Ward Perry
English companies
Broadcaster:
Sci-Fi Channel
SPACE
Internet Streaming:
Midnight Pulp
RetroCrush
Viewster
Licensed by:
Discotek Media (2010)
New World Pictures (Expired)
Viz Media (Expired)
Recording Studio: The Ocean Group
French cast
French staff
(none)
Philippe David as Tetsuro Hoshino
Stéphanie Lafforgue as Maetel

Antoine Tome as Toshiro
Dominique Lelong as Emeraldas

Cathy Cerda as
mère de Tetsuro
mère de Toshiro
Shadow
Christine Paris as
Luz
Promethium
Cyrille Artaux as le contrôleur
Frédéric Cerdal as
Antarès
Comte Mécanique
Gérard Rouzier as Albator
Philippe Roullier as
Dr Ban
narrateur
French companies
Broadcaster:
IDF1 (from 4 July 2009)
Mangas (from 9 August 1999)
TPS Cineculte (from 2 April 2006)
Distributor:
Déclic Images
KAZÉ
Dubbing: Studio Chinkel
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
Executive producer: Dardo Ferrari
Distributor:
Argentina Video Home
Edisur (Chile)
Licensed by:
DSX Films (Argentina and Chile)
Toei Animation Inc.
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Gabriella Rasero
Translation: Amanda Ronzoni
Antonella Baldini as Maetel
Simone Crisari as Tetsuro Hoshino

Laura Lenghi as Esmeralda
Massimo Rossi as Capitan Harlock
Roberto Del Giudice as Tochiro Oyama

Antonella Rinaldi as Madre di Tochiro
Barbara De Bortoli as Luz
Beatrice Margiotti as
Madre di Tetsuro
Shadow
Dario Penne as Bartender
Gabriele Carrara as Faust
Ilaria Latini as Mime'
Maura Cenciarelli as Claire
Michele Kalamera as Antares
Mino Caprio as Capotreno
Stefania Romagnoli as Promesium
Italian companies
Distributor: Yamato Video
Dubbing: Promovision
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Distributor: Play Entertainment (Portugal; DVD)
Licensed by: Toei Animation Inc.
Portuguese cast
(none)

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