Galaxy Express 999: The Movie(1979)

movie - first aired/released 1979-08-04 - 128 min - audience 6.9

Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction

Directed by Rintaro

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.