One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book

1978 5.5 (10 votes) 1h 32m

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Genres

Action Adventure Animation Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie

Production Companies

Tezuka Productions
Nippon Television Network Corporation

One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (100万年地球の旅バンダーブック)

Overview

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.