Macross Plus: The Movie

1995 1h 55m JA

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7.0

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★7.0TMDB · 78

ActionAdventureAnimationScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Takumi Yamazaki
Isamu Alva Dyson (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Guld Goa Bowman (voice)
Rica Fukami
Myung Fang Lone (voice)
Mako Hyodo
Sharon Apple (voice)
Kenji Utsumi
Col. Millard Johnson (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
Lucy MacMillan (voice)
Banjo Ginga
Raymond Marley (voice)
Koichi Kitamura
General Gomez (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Shoji Kawamori
Writers: Keiko Nobumoto, Shoji Kawamori
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Macross Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Shoji Kawamori, shot by Akihiko Takahashi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Yoko Kanno. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Yasue Funami shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Takumi Yamazaki and Unsho Ishizuka and Rica Fukami carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt2330912 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 78 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Shoji Kawamori directs. Akihiko Takahashi behind the camera. Yoko Kanno scores. Yasue Funami cuts. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

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131 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Macross Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Shoji Kawamori, shot by Akihiko Takahashi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Yoko Kanno. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Yasue Funami shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Takumi Yamazaki and Unsho Ishizuka and Rica Fukami carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt2330912 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 78 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.