One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978)

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.

Released Aug. 27, 1978 92 min None+

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Keywords: tmdb.anime, tmdb.osamu-tezuka, mdblist.imdb-tv-movie, mdblist.belongs-to-collection, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, mdblist.first-in-collection

Production Companies: Tezuka Productions, Nippon Television Network Corporation

Country: Japan
Production Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese