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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Stereo Video Format: Widescreen 2.35:1 (Anamorphic) Languages: Japanese, Korean Subtitles: English, Korean Region Code: 3 Year Made: 1979 / 1982 Running Time: 128 / 135
 The Japanese-made Galaxy Express offers the spectacle of a real locomotive, chugging its way through the solar system. In Willie Wonka fashion, the locomotive guides its passengers into realizing their heart's desires?which of course usually turns out not to be what they've expected. The central character herein is a little boy, who wishes to learn the secret of immortality. He does...and he doesn't like it one bit. Touted as a children's movie, Galaxy Express is grim going at times. Best not to see this film right after the funeral of a loved one.
Tetsuro Hoshino's wish to board the famous galaxy-traveling train is finally granted when he joins Maetel, a mysterious woman who suggests that he can fulfill his dreams of vengeance against Count Mecha for murdering his mother. But life has a way of proving to idealistic young men that the simplest desire may not always be the easiest to satisfy.
Sequel - "Adieu Galaxy 999"
Conclusion of the epic "Galaxy Express 999" adventure. Based on the comic by Leiji Matsumoto, the story follows an idealistic boy on the verge of manhood through the galaxy on a quest to avenge his mother's murder.
Now, two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999: The Signature Edition, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro has almost forgotten about the Galaxy Express (the station is wrecked, and it no longer stops there). When a messenger arrives bearing a familiar voice and message, it seems that his job is not quite done in the Universe.
Tetsuro embarks on a journey, the destination of which is unknown even to Galaxy Express Railways locomotive C6248 itself... a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear speak of it.
Come back to the world of Tetsuro and Maetel; to the Three-Nine and it's lovable, bumbling Conductor; to space pirates Emeraldas and Captain Harlock; to genius engineer Tochiro Oyama.
Come meet new friends (and enemies) as well, including Metalmena, cold-hearted replacement for GE 999's warm-hearted Claire; Faust the Black Knight, mysterious head of Railways Inc. and conductor of the somehow terrible Ghost Train; Meowdar, a brave cat-like resistance fighter on Maetel's homeworld of La Metal; and more.
In this full-length theatrical conclusion to creator Leiji Star Blazers... Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries revealed...
Come back to where myths become legend, and to where - at the hands of master Japanese director Taro-Rin - Japanese animation achieves its full potential as Japan's only real filmmaking industry.
Disc 1
Galaxy Express 999
Disc 2
Adieu, Galaxy Express 999
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