This is the original space anime adventure, the first Yamato feature film, released theatrcally in Japan where it broke all previous attendance records for animated films!
Think of it as the warp-speed version of the first Yamato TV series, known in the U.S. as Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar. This seamless motion picture feature's the episodic adventure's most spectacular battles, dramatic personal encounters, intimate moments, and the unparalleled suspense of an intergalactic race against time to save Earth from total destruction. To avoid nuclear fallout, survivors of a surprise attack from the Planet Gamilon are living in underground cities...but the radiation is seeping downward and humanity's days are numbered. The Yamato has only on eyear to make a 148,000 light year voyage from earth to the planet Iscandar and return with a neutralizer hat will cleanse Earth's radiated atmosphere.