In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
Susumu Kodai
Yuki Mori
Shirō Sanada
Daisuke Shima
Hajime Saito
Mamoru Kodai
Aihara
Doctor Sado
Hikozaemon Tokugawa
Yasuo Nanbu
Saburō Katō
Akira Yamamoto
Furuya
Kenjiro Ota
Sasaki
Heikuro Todo
Jūzō Okita
M. Nishina
Desura/Gamirasu
narrator
Higashida
Tobita
Ando
Saito's mother
Desler (voice)
Nanba
Kazuhiko Sugiyama
Okita's son
young Susumu Kodai
analyzer (voice)
Iscandar (voice)
Director
Producer
Executive Producer
Screenplay