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One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978)
Directed by Osamu Tezuka
Overview
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.
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Yuu Mizushima | Mami Koyama | Kousei Tomita | Tōru Ōhira | Masatō Ibu | Iemasa Kayumi | Reiko Mutoh | Kyoji Kobayashi | Yukiko Nikaido | Kaneta Kimotsuki | Koichi Chiba