Leiji Matsumoto

Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor), 6 (Director), 46 (Writer), 6 (Creator)
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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)
The adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.
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)
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)
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)
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, 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 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 (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 (1999) - TV Mini-Series
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)
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 (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 (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)
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)
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 (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 (2001) - TV Series
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 (1978) - TV Series
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 (2003) - TV Series
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 (2002) - TV Series
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 (1974) - TV Series
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 (1978) - TV Series
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 (1980) - TV Series
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 (1978) - TV Series
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 (2002) - TV Mini-Series
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)
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 (1978) - TV Series
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.
The story on Arcadia's mystery, on which the 13th television episode was based.
Gintama 2: The Exceedingly Strange Gintama-chan (2018) - TV Mini-Series
The adventures of the Yorozuya gang and their friends. (imdb)
Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass (1980) - Short Film
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.
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- Toward a Sea of Stars (2012) - Season 1
- Escape from the Jupiter Sphere (2012) - Season 1
- The Trap on All Sides (2012) - Season 1
- A World I Once Saw (2013) - Season 1
- What Lies Beyond (2013) - Season 1
- A Choice for the Future (2013) - Season 1
- Memories of the Blue Planet (2013) - Season 1
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.
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...
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.
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 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 (1977) - Short Film
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 (1978) - Short Film
Doppler has set up a trap for the Jasdam, and it is up to the Danguard Ace to save it.
Evil scientist Doppler will stop at nothing to destroy the giant transforming robot Danguard Ace, so he can conquer a new planet.
The saga concludes as Doppler's evil robots fight the transforming Danguard Ace over control of the new planet, Promote.
The saga continues in deep space as Doppler's evil robots fight the transforming Danguard Ace over control of the new planet.
- The Great Bandit Antares (1978) - Season 1
- Shadow of the Planet of Indecision (1978) - Season 1
- The Comet Library (1978) - Season 1
- The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity (1) (1978) - Season 1
- The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity (2) (1978) - Season 1
- Trader Junction (1) (1978) - Season 1
- Trader Junction (2) (1978) - Season 1
- Formless Planet Nuruba (1978) - Season 1
- The Fossilized Warrior (1) (1978) - Season 1
- The Fossilized Warrior (2) (1978) - Season 1
- Laala from the Double Planet (1978) - Season 1
- Beethoven of the Water Kingdom (1978) - Season 1
- The Town of Fireflies (1978) - Season 1
- The Armored Planet (1979) - Season 1
- Maetel of Mud (1979) - Season 1
- The Kingdom of Atonement (1979) - Season 1
- Professional Souls (1979) - Season 1
- The Grave of Dead Leaves (1979) - Season 1
- Pirate Ship Queen Emeraldas (1979) - Season 1
- Queen of the Primitive Planet (1979) - Season 1
- The Planet of Dimensional Voyage (1979) - Season 1
- A Steel Angel (1979) - Season 1
- The Skeleton's Song (1979) - Season 1
- The Goddess of Children and Easy Birth in the Snow Capital (1979) - Season 1
- The Great Writer of the Mirage Planet (1979) - Season 1
- The Continent of Sakezan (1979) - Season 1
- The Ghost World Filament (1979) - Season 1
- The Angry Planet (1979) - Season 1
- The Bitten Planet of Suspended Space (1979) - Season 1
- Ulatres' Mountain of Screws (1979) - Season 1
- The Witch of Plated City (1) (1979) - Season 1
- The Witch of Plated City (2) (1979) - Season 1
- The Great Chief Saicropros (1979) - Season 1
- Miikun's Mansion of Life (1979) - Season 1
- The Empire of the Cowardly Elder (1979) - Season 1
- The Mist of the Fog Capital (1979) - Season 1
- The Great Chief of the Spherical Housing Complex (1) (1979) - Season 1
- The Great Chief of the Spherical Housing Complex (2) (1979) - Season 1
- Fimēl's Memories (1979) - Season 1
- Kira of the Stormy Hill (1979) - Season 1
- Ride of the Space Valkyries (1) (1979) - Season 1
- Ride of the Space Valkyries (2) (1979) - Season 1
- Voices of El Alamein (1979) - Season 1
- The Laboratory of Eternal War (1) (1979) - Season 1
- The Laboratory of Eternal War (2) (1979) - Season 1
- The Planet Future (1979) - Season 1
- Ghost Tunnel (1979) - Season 1
- Artemis of the Transparent Sea (1) (1979) - Season 1
- Artemis of the Transparent Sea (2) (1979) - Season 1
- Tetsuro on the Planet of Mirrors (1979) - Season 1
- The Tale of the Endless Summer (1) (1979) - Season 1
- The Tale of the Endless Summer (2) (1979) - Season 1
- The Cold-Blooded Empire (1) (1979) - Season 1
- The Cold-Blooded Empire (2) (1979) - Season 1
- The Footsteps of Footstep Village (1979) - Season 1
- The Idle One's Mirror (1979) - Season 1
- Planet of a Pint-Size Room (1) (1980) - Season 1
- Planet of a Pint-Size Room (2) (1980) - Season 1
- City Without Night (1980) - Season 1
- The Sisters of the Pitch Dark Planet (1980) - Season 1
- The Sacred Planet of Silence (1980) - Season 1
- Symphonic Poem and the Witch's Harp (1980) - Season 1
- The Fog of the Planet of Funerals (1980) - Season 1
- Dyruz the Space Monk (1980) - Season 1
- The Planet Named Curiosity (1980) - Season 1
- The Rebellion of C62 (1980) - Season 1
- The Capital of Kind Flowers (1980) - Season 1
- The Pioneer from the River of Purgatory (1980) - Season 1
- Africa, the Great Dark Nebula (1) (1980) - Season 1
- Africa, the Great Dark Nebula (2) (1980) - Season 1
- The Gimme Planet of 1,765,000,000 People (1980) - Season 1
- Cheyenne the Nation of Water (1) (1980) - Season 1
- Cheyenne the Nation of Water (2) (1980) - Season 1
- The Holy Woman Who Devours Souls (1) (1980) - Season 1
- The Holy Woman Who Devours Souls (2) (1980) - Season 1
- The Pirate of Time Castle (1) (1980) - Season 1
- The Pirate of Time Castle (2) (1980) - Season 1
- The Pirate of Time Castle (3) (1980) - Season 1
- A Tale of a Short Life (1980) - Season 1
- Lifeform Number Three (1980) - Season 1
- The Planet of the Giant Elephant (1980) - Season 1
- The Planet of Illusive Love (1980) - Season 1
- The UFO of the Planet of Forgotten Parents (1980) - Season 1
- Elza from the Sea (1980) - Season 1
- Planet of the Crossroads of Destiny (1980) - Season 1
- Gunman's Elegy (1980) - Season 1
- The Snow Woman of Andromeda (1) (1980) - Season 1
- The Snow Woman of Andromeda (2) (1980) - Season 1
- The Final Days of the Underwater City (1980) - Season 1
- Keiko of the Insect Planet (1980) - Season 1
- Yayaball's Tiny World (1) (1980) - Season 1
- Yayaball's Tiny World (2) (1980) - Season 1
- Flying Kuro (1) (1980) - Season 1
- Flying Kuro (2) (1980) - Season 1
- The One Book Left in the Universe (1980) - Season 1
- The Four-Dimensional Elevator (1980) - Season 1
- The Monster of the Loose Zone (1980) - Season 1
- The Planet of Eternally Pursued Dreams (1980) - Season 1
- The Planet of the Queen's Rebellion (1981) - Season 1
- 1001 Nights in Andromeda (1) (1981) - Season 1
- 1001 Nights in Andromeda (2) (1981) - Season 1
- The Legend of the Young Warriors (1981) - Season 1
- Ghost Station No. 13 (1981) - Season 1
- The Bird-Man of Kilimanjaro (1981) - Season 1
- The Destruction of Macaroni au Gratin (1981) - Season 1
- Maetel's Journey (1) (1981) - Season 1
- Maetel's Journey (2) (1981) - Season 1
- The Planet of the Bats (1981) - Season 1
- The Vision of Youth! Farewell, 999 (1) (1981) - Season 1
- The Vision of Youth! Farewell, 999 (2) (1981) - Season 1
- Tabidachi no Ballad (1978) - Season 1
- Kasei no akai kaze (1978) - Season 1
- Titan no nemureru senshi (1978) - Season 1
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...
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Compilation movie of Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love