Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Film poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • Keisuke Fujikawa
  • Eiichi Yamamoto
  • Toshio Masuda
Story byLeiji Matsumoto
Aritsune Toyota
Produced byTooru Yoshida
StarringKei Tomiyama
Yoko Asagami
Shusei Nakamura
Music byHiroshi Miyagawa
Production
company
Academy Productions
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • July 14, 1978 (1978-07-14)
Running time
151 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥360 million
Box office¥4.3 billion ($43 million)

Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: Warriors of Love (さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち, Saraba Uchū Senkan Yamato Ai no Senshitachi), also called Arrivederci Yamato, is the second film based on the classic manga and anime series Space Battleship Yamato (known as Star Blazers in the United States) and the sequel to Space Battleship Yamato (1977).

Set three years after the events of the first film, Yamato must protect Earth from another tyrannical alien race in the form of the White Comet Empire, who prove to be a much graver threat. This same storyline would be reused and expanded on later in the same year on TV in Space Battleship Yamato II, albeit with a different ending.