The film spectacle Captain Harlock, the space pirate, is coming to cinemas, which was created at the suggestion of comic virtuoso Leiji Matsumoto, who is already celebrating 60 years of comic creation this year.
Matsumoto's father was fighter pilot and after the war he suffered greatly because he could no longer sit in an airplane cabin. Since he was discharged from the army, the family lived in considerable poverty. Matsumoto he always saw his father as a hero and modeled many of his own in his image comic book characters, also Harlock.
Captain Harlock is the only one standing between the Gaja community and its ultimate goal - complete dominance in the galaxy. Mysterious a pirate in revenge against those who wronged mankind and himself, like a spirit floating through space and attacks enemy ships. Commander of the Isora Grove Legion he sends his younger brother Yama as a spy to Harlock's Arkadia ship, but Yama soon realizes that not everything is as it seems at first glance and as the authorities say. Harlock and his loyal crew want to unravel the knots of time in order to return Earth to an era when humans still lived on it. It is written the year 2977 and 500 billion displaced people want to return to the planet they still see as their home.
World famous Captain Harlock has finally hit the big screen in its latest version after five years of production. The film is not a remake of already known stories from the comics and the series, but a completely original story that touches on problems that today's viewer can easily understand. From the technical side, the most interesting fact is that they are for anime used face capture for the first time. So they digitally captured everything emotional nuances of interpretation and transferred it to animation. The movie is so far the most expensive animation in Japanese production.
Sci-fi animated film
Space pirate Captain Harlock
(Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Japan, 2013)
Directed by: Shinji Aramaki. They play: Yu Aoi, Arata Furuta, Haruma Miura, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Shon Oguri, Maaya Sakamoto, Miyuki Sawashiro.
12/19, Coliseum