Leiji Matsumoto

Leiji Matsumoto
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor), 6 (Director), 46 (Writer), 6 (Creator)
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Queen Emeraldas
Queen Emeraldas (1998) - Direct-to-Video
Queen Emeraldas is a female warrior who sails through the outer reaches of the universe in her spacecraft, battling evil at every turn and defying her nemesis, the pirate Captain Harlock. While visiting the planet Daibaran, Emeraldas encounters Eldomain, the leader of a pirate league with ties to Harlock, and when he tries to draw young stowaway Tochiro into his schemes, she's forced to teach him a lesson. However, Eldomain and his fellows are not about to give up without a fight. (All Movie Guide)
Galaxy Express 999
The adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.
Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Tetsuro have to go back to Megalopolis.
Arcadia of My Youth
Space captain Harlock, the latest in a family of proud aerial warriors, begins his journey to free the oppressed Earth from the despotic Illumidas Command. (imdb)
Space Battleship Yamato
The crew of the space battleship Yamato set out on a journey to the planet Iscandar to acquire a device that can heal the ravaged Earth. (imdb)
Space Battleship Yamato
In the distant future, the war between the human race and the aliens known as the Gamilons have sent radioactive asteroids that have devastated the planet making the its atmosphere uninhabitable. In an effort to assist the Earth, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutralize the radiation. The space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor. They have only one Earth year to travel to Iscandar and back. (Wikipedia)
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
The story opens in late 2201. In the film, later modified into a theatrical movie, Desslar sees his homeworld, Gamilas, destroyed by the grey-skinned aliens, and its twin planet Iscandar next in line for invasion. He finds an eventual ally in the Yamato, then on a training mission under deputy captain Kodai. (Wikipedia)
Be Forever Yamato
Be Forever Yamato, set in the year 2202, sees the Black Nebula Empire launch a powerful weapon at Earth, a hyperon bomb which will annihilate humanity if they resist a full-scale invasion. The Yamato, under new captain, Yamanami, travels to the aliens' home galaxy only to discover what appears to be a future Earth--defeated and ruled by the enemy. (Wikipedia)
Final Yamato
Final Yamato reunites the crew one more time to combat the threat of the Denguilu, a militaristic alien civilization that intends to use the water planet, Aquarius, to flood Earth and resettle there (having lost their home planet to a galactic collision). Captain Okita, who was found to be in cryogenic sleep since the first season, returns to command the Yamato and sacrifices himself to stop the Denguili's plan. Susumu and Yuki also get married. (Wikipedia)
DNA Sights 999.9
DNA Sights 999.9 (1998) - Direct-to-Video
After a meteor hits Earth, traitor forces have (for all intents and purposes) taken over, and the people are suffering. In the chaos, a boy named Tetsuro Daiba, who had lost his parents in the meteor hit, is paid a visit by Mello, a mysterious woman appearing in a bright light. When Daiba comes to, he finds itself in a spaceship infirmary under observation. Stealing a fighter that he didn't know how to pilot (until he tried it), he breaks out, flying like a total pro. (animenewsnetwork.com)
Harlock Saga: The Ring of Nibelung: The Rhinegold
Captain Harlock is drawn into a saga of intergalactic proportions when the son of a deceased comrade unwittingly forges the Ring of the Niebelung. Evil forces gather to wage war against the last remaining superpowers of the galaxy led by a demented outcast. Harlock must counter the amassed armadas that threaten the last gods and recover the ring before Paradise is lost. (animenewsnetwork.com)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him.
Maetel legend
Maetel legend (2000) - Direct-to-Video
The artificial sun that lights the frozen planet La Metalle is dying, threatening to extinguish what little life is left there. Queen La Andromeda Prometheum decides that the only way for her people to survive is for them to submit to Hardgear's transformation process, which will turn everyone's body into machines. The Queen's daughters, Emeraldas and Maetel, refuse to submit to this process, and fight to stay human. (animenewsnetwork.com)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 Uchū Senkan Yamato Ni-ichi-kyū-kyū?) is a 2012 Japanese military sci-fi anime television series that is a remake of the first Space Battleship Yamato TV series created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki with production design and direction by Leiji Matsumoto in 1974, known in the United States as Star Blazers. (Wikipedia)
Queen Millenia
The planet LaMetal is on a collision (and conquering) course with the Earth, and the only one who can stop the forthcoming catastrophe is Queen Millennia, a former princess of La-Metal who has made Earth her home. (imdb)
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy
Based on the story by manga master Leiji Matsumoto (The Cockpit, Queen Emeraldas), the 55 minute featurette picks up one year after the events of Galaxy Express 999 in which a young boy named Tetsuro and his motherly companion Matel worked to rid the universe on the Mechanized Empire who had taken over Earth. (AniDB)
The Cockpit
The Cockpit (1994) - Direct-to-Video
This anthology tells the aviation related stories of three troopers on the Axis side of World War II. The first one is of a disgraced German fighter pilot who is assigned to escort a bomber carrying his love and a fearsome secret cargo. The second story is of a Japanese kamikaze pilot of a guided rocket bomb who, denied his chance in a failed attack in which he survived, is determined to complete his mission despite the odds. (myanimelist.net)
Cosmowarrior Zero
The long war between the planet Earth and the machine men is finally over, resulting in a peace that is more a victory for the machine men than the Earth. Warrius Zero lost his family in the war to the machine men but despite this he is still is a member of the Earth fleet that is now working in concert with the machine men. His ship, made up of both humans and machine men, has been given a near impossible task: capture the space pirate Captain Harlock. (myanimelist.net)
Galaxy Express 999
In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station. (myanimelist.net)
The Galaxy Railways
The story begins on planet Destiny, which claimed to be where the center of the Universe is, where all the terminals of "The Galaxy Railways" are gathered. The main character, Yuuki Manabu (20 years old), carrying on his dead Father and Brother`s will, joined SDF (Space Defense Force) to protect the safety of the Galaxy Railways. (myanimelist.net)
Gun Frontier
It is a harsh and barren wasteland, where the weak aren't allowed to dream. It is also a sacred land for true men, for there is no place a man can feel more alive. This is the Gun Frontier. Sea Pirate Captain Harlock and the errant samurai, Tochiro arrive in the United States on the Western Frontier. Along with a mysterious woman they meet along the way, the two friends challenge sex rings, bandits, and corrupt sheriff. (myanimelist.net)
Space Battleship Yamato
In the distant future, the war between the human race and the Gamilon has taken its toll on the planet Earth. Constant bombardment of radioactive asteroids has rendered the planet's atmosphere uninhabitable. As a means of relief aid, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutralize the radiation off the planet. For this task, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey. (myanimelist.net)
Space Battleship Yamato 2
A year has passed since the Star Force returned to save the Earth but another danger now approaches from deep space. A gigantic White Comet hurtles toward our galaxy, obliterating everything in its path. But it is no ordinary comet--it is the deadly Comet Empire, conqueror of worlds... and Earth is the next target! Against orders, the Star Force blasts off to investigate, but even if they can get past the flagship Andromeda, they don't yet know the true nature of their new enemy! (myanimelist.net)
Space Battleship Yamato 3
This time around, earth is in the same predicament as Gamilus was in the first series, and most of the series, Yamato (with several other unnamed ships which are implied to be upon the same task) seeks for another planet for humanity to migrate to. Somewhere deep in space, Desslok is engaging in a war against another superpower, the Bolar Federation, and soon Musumu Kodai and his friends are in the middle of this armed conflict. (imdb)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
It is 2977 AD and mankind has become stagnant. Robots do all the work, the masses are kept tranquil by subliminal messages, and government officials are lazy, caring only about recreational activities like golf and horse racing. Captain Harlock has defied this insipid mentality, leading a group of like-minded rebels to a more adventurous life aboard the spaceship Arcadia. (myanimelist.net)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: The Endless Odyssey
On an archaelogical mission to the end of the known universe, Professor Daiba unwitting unleashes an ancient horror from its confines. Five years later the malevolent alien force sets in motion a plan which reunites the various crewmembers of the Arcadia to sail the stars once more as well as bring Tadashi Daiba to meet Harlock for the first time (again). (myanimelist.net)
Space Symphony Maetel: Galaxy Express 999 Side Story
Maetel abandoned her mother and her home planet, the doomed and frozen La Metal, where people must become cyborgs to survive. When she is beckoned to return, her options seem slim: follow her mother's path (and with it a robot mind and the contempt of all humans), or run away and fight with humans against the machines. Yet, she is not without comrades and defenders. (myanimelist.net)
Force Five: Spaceketeers
Princess Aurora and 3 androids must travel across the universe to reach the Great Planet and restore its cosmic energy. Based on the ancient book Saiyuki, also known as Journey to the West.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Riddle of the Arcadia
The story on Arcadia's mystery, on which the 13th television episode was based.
Gintama 2: The Exceedingly Strange Gintama-chan
The adventures of the Yorozuya gang and their friends. (imdb)
Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass
While travelling on the Galaxy Express with Maetel, Tetsuro befriends Claire who was forced by her mother to exchange her organic body for crystal glass. When danger threatens Tetsuro, Claire tries to help him.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Season 1
Great Yamato No. 0
Great Yamato No. 0 (2004) - Direct-to-Video
In the galactic group there are more than 100,000,000,000 galaxies, and the Milky Way galaxy, the one which includes Earth's solar system, is only one of these... one of many in the immensity of outer space. This story starts in the year 3199, when a mighty enemy attacks the Milky Way from a neighbouring galaxy. The enemy engages the combined forces of the Milky Way, an Alliance of many stellar nations, and defeats them one after another.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark
2199 AD. Yamato tries to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy after receiving a Cosmo Reverse System at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the Gatlantis, and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls hi...
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: A Voyage to Remember
Compilation film of “Space Battleship Yamato 2199” TV series. The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader’s assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth.
Science Fiction Journey to the West Starzinger
Princess Aurora, the only survivor of her planet destroyed by evil mutants, is resolved to put an end to the mutant menace in the galaxy along with three enhanced human cyborgs Jesse Dart, Porkos, and Aramus, she travels space in the Cosmos Queen to the Dekkos System to fight the final battle against all odds of the universe.
Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother?!!
Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train that travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and ending at Andromeda on the other. Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother. A remake of episodes 51-52 of the TV version.
Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army
A new insect enemy that feeds off of the energy of all living things has set its eyes on Earth.
Danguard Ace: The Great Space War
Doppler has set up a trap for the Jasdam, and it is up to the Danguard Ace to save it.
Danguard Ace
Evil scientist Doppler will stop at nothing to destroy the giant transforming robot Danguard Ace, so he can conquer a new planet.
Danguard Ace 3
The saga concludes as Doppler's evil robots fight the transforming Danguard Ace over control of the new planet, Promote.
Danguard Ace 2
The saga continues in deep space as Doppler's evil robots fight the transforming Danguard Ace over control of the new planet.
Galaxy Express 999 - Season 1
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 - A New Voyage - Later Chapter: Stasha
Meanwhile, Earth is celebrating the success of the magnificent Space Battleship Yamato and its heroic crew. A new generation of promising recruits joins Yamato and its two new support ships, led by Yuki Mori and Shirou Sanada. But not everyone agrees with the past decisions of its captain, Susumu Kodai. During the Yamato's six-month-long training mission and diplomatic meeting with the Gamilans, the crew learns of the recent catastrophe, and against all orders...
Space Battleship Yamato 2202: The Era Called Yamato - Choices of 2202
Compilation movie of Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love