Odin, the ship of salvation - The 1985 animated film
Odin, the ship of salvation (in the Japanese original: オ ー デ ィ ー ン 光子 帆船 ス タ ー ラ イ ト, Odin - Koshi Hansen Starlight) (in the English version: Odin Photon Sailer Starlight and Odin: Starlight Mutiny) is a 1985 Japanese animated film (anime) produced by the West Cape Corporation by Yoshinobu Nishizaki , formerly known for Space Battleship Yamato (also known as Star Blazers). It was directed by Toshio Masuda with a score by Hiroshi Miyagawa, both of whom worked on the Yamato series.
History
Odin revolves around the fledgling crew of the Starlight laser-sailed space schooner as they embark on a historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what appears to be a shipwrecked spaceship, but discover it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unbeknownst to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet is approaching Earth and a scout ship from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.
Sara begins to have strange dreams about a place called Odin. A series of artifacts discovered on a lone asteroid point to an ancient folk song by a Norse sailor, which mentioned the Norse god Odin. The crew decipher these artifacts and deduce that Odin may actually exist as a place, the heavenly planet that is so often talked about in mythology. The young crew is eager to embark on the voyage, but the ship's captain and senior officers observe the need to follow orders from Earth Command and return to Earth immediately.
The crew mutiny and locks the senior officers in the officers room and teleports the ship to the location indicated in the artifacts. Upon arrival, the Starlights encounter a cosmic being who appears before them in space. He identifies himself as Asgarde declares that he will block the gate of heaven against the corrupted beings of the flesh and all other non-believers. As a result, the Starlight faces an almost endless swarm of mechanized attack ships.
The Starlight crew successfully makes their way to land on what appears to be a mechanized world only to face hordes of mechanized soldiers. Surviving the assault, Sara and the crew are horrified to learn that these soldiers are actually partly living beings. A dying soldier hands a crew member a crystal memory chip and asks him to insert it into a computer display. Through it, the crew learns the memories of Odin's soldier and the whole story of the alien people's exodus.
Legends once told of a paradise destroyed by a kingdom of fire.
Odin was once a planet that faced destruction due to the radiation of its expanding sun, Canopus. Its people built giant computerized spaceships to monitor their exodus in search of another world, but many remained on Odin in hopes that Canopus' fires would go out.
Computers on the ships eventually developed sentience and turned its humanoid refugees into cyborgs leaving those who remained on Odin the only ones to remain themselves. The machines have built larger machines to ensure the mission is successful resulting in possible corruption of the original purpose.
Now these machines were only trying to destroy all organic life. The dying soldier noticed that Sarah not only resembled the queen of Odin's people, but that Sarah was the queen's name. Sara confirms that there may be a connection as she recounts her memories of the Tree of Life and how she was protected by two giants during her childhood. The cyborg soldier '
The crew promises to devote themselves to the search for Odin. However, they have yet to defeat the main computer of this machine world; a being called Belgel. The crew find a way to insert a computer virus that overcharges Belgel and destroys the world fortress. The film simply ends with the crew of the Starlight continuing, unhindered, to begin their search for the legendary planet Odin.
Production
The film came out in the wake of the popularity of Space Battleship Yamato, which had finished its programming two years earlier with Final Yamato. Although it shares many similar directorial elements, it has failed to gain lasting popularity. The film was also released in the United States by the US Manga Corps in both a dubbed and an uncut subtitled format, of which it has the distinction of undergoing perhaps the hardest editing for its English release length. Unlike the original uncut version, which lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes, the English dub only lasts 90 minutes.
Despite the attractive ship designs (especially the Starlight) and beautiful animation, the film was panned by critics and mainstream fans alike as slow and tiring. Many criticize the film's unsolved ending, as a trilogy was originally planned but canceled after the disappointing box office. It is also seen by many as Nishizaki's transparent attempt to recycle themes in Yamato. The inclusion of music from Japanese metal band Loudness is both applauded and ridiculed.
Technical data
Original title Odin Photon Sailing Ship Starlight
Original language Japanese
Country of Production Japan
Year 1985
Duration 139 min
Relationship 1,33:1
Gender animation, science fiction
Regia Takeshi Shirado, Eiichi Yamamoto
Subject Yoshinobu nishizaki
Film script Toshio Masuda, Kazuo Kasahara, Eiichi Yamamoto
Producer Tomoharu Katsumata
Executive producer Yoshinobu nishizaki
Production house Toei Animation
Photography Shigeyoshi Ikeda
Editor Yutaka Chikura
Special effects Sumie Harashima, Chiaki Hirao, Masayuki Kawachi, Toru Nakamura, Yoshiaki Okada, Shōji Satō, Noboru Sekiai, Nobuhiro Shimokawa, Ko Yamamoto
Music Hiroshi Miyagawa, Loudness
scenography Koji Sekiguchi
Storyboard Seiji Endo, Takeshi Shirado
Art director Geki Katsumata, Tadano Tsuji
character design Shinya Takahashi, Tomonori Kogawa
Entertainers Koichi Arai, Nobuyuki Fukuchi, Ichiro Hattori, Nobuyoshi Hoshikawa, Yoshiaki Iiyama, Tetsuo Kadoya, Hajime Kamegaki, Katsumasa Kanazawa, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Masayuki, Osamu Nabeshima, Chuahuki Nakajima, Tsuneo Ninomiya, Masoyuki Ohito, Hiroyuki Oyuki, Naoyuki Ohkura, Yoshinori Tanabe, Yasushi Tanaka, Koichi Usami, Takuya Wada, Masahito Yamashita, Masayuki Yagi, Hidenori Oshima, Noriko Ozeki
Original voice actors
Toshio Furukawa as Akira Tsukuba
Keiko Han as Sarah Cyanbaker
Tessho Genda: Belgel
Gorō Naya: Shonosuke Kuramoto / Narrator
Toru Furuya as Jiro Ishige
Hideyuki Hori as Mamoru Nelson
Noboru MatsuhashiCyborgs
Ryuji Saikachi as Floy Fongenbaum
Norio Wakamoto as Naoki Ryou
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
