movie

1981 · Japan

Mobile Suit Gundam I

Tonight at a glance

Runtime: 139 min
Age rating: NR
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Violence: Moderate

Why tonight?

In Japanese — subtitles on.

The story

In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has sparked a war.

space battle
space war
space colony
mecha
giant robot
military
edited from tv series
anime
real robot
war refugees

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Fuyumi Shiraishi — Mirai Yashima / Katz Hawin (voice)
Rumiko Ukai — Fraw Bow / Letz Kofan (voice)
Kiyonobu Suzuki — Hayato Kobayashi (voice)
Toshio Furukawa — Kai Shiden (voice)
Shozo Iizuka — Ryû Jose (voice)
Keiko Toda — Matilda Ajan (voice)
Yuzuru Fujimoto — Degwin Zabi (voice)
Banjo Ginga — Giren Zabi (voice)
Mami Koyama — Kishiria Zabi (voice)
Daisuke Gori — Dozul Zabi (voice)
Katsuji Mori — Garma Zabi (voice)

Directed: Ryoji Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Tomino
Written: Kenichi Matsuzaki, Yoshihisa Araki, Yū Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hiroyuki Hoshiyama

Production

Rating: 6.7 / 10 · 104 ratings
Studio: SUNRISE

The Collection

The complete story, in order.

1981 · You’re here
Mobile Suit Gundam I
Where it starts.
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
1981
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space
1982

If this stayed with you

Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.