Released
One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
August 27 1978 (over 46 years ago)Rating
55
Based on
10 reviews
- Director: Osamu Tezuka
- Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Movie
- Runtime: 1 h 32 m
- Country: Japan
- Companies: Tezuka Productions, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Bander is a 17-year-old boy from Earth who lives on a distant planet, which is populated by human shape-shifters who feed off of vegetables and animal tails. Violence soon breaks out, as invaders launch an attack on Bander's new planet. This was Japan's first 2-hour animated film for television. The program received high ratings when broadcast as part of a set of 24-hour TV programs called "Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu" on Nippon Television. After a long gap since his last animated film for television, this work fully reflects Osamu Tezuka's desire to achieve theatrical quality with this production.
