Space Battleship Yamato Battle Scene (With Cannons)

The Yamato runs into a small Gamilas fleet....
Uploaded under the fair use policy, I am not the owner of this material by any means, it is meant as an educational and informational clip.

[@testcase72]

"This is how I survived the fight off Mars." "You started a launch cycle just for yourself, forcing the rest of the squadron to be stuck in check waiting for the launch deck to be locked and pressurized so that the squadron has to waste valuable time and ordinance trying to save you when you start an unwinnable dogfight against superior forces instead of on-mission? I'm starting to have questions about Mars."

[@ProperDaveXD001]

Youre not wrong, but drawing off the enemy to get the whole squadron out with minimal risk, and get them to flinch wondering if all the others are as good as that one? Likely makes sense to a certain mindset.

[@geraldshields9035]

Kodai was right : She was showing off...

[@MrAtullberg]

"In my defence; I was extraordinarily drunk."

[@hal9741]

原作の有名なエピソード。これ無くしてはヤマトは語れない。自己犠牲の物語。

[@VexenDmitri]

Okita: Cripple their warp engines so they cant follow us. Kodai: Cant follow us if they're dead.

[@testcase72]

Okita: "I didn't mean shoot THROUGH the rest of the ship." Kodai: "You didn't say NOT to shoot through the rest of the ship!"

[@LinariaKofi]

Chad kodai

[@danielboatright8887]

Kodai is very wise.

[@233Deadman]

Technically, he did disable the warp engines. As well as the guns, shields, life support and hull integrity.

[@SantomPh]

the Yamato doesn't have a lock on system for its cannons, it relies on its fighters to send data so the gunners can aim at certain coordinates at range. It's like the WW2 destroyers getting info from guys in the field over in the Pacific Campaign

[@austink4712]

Nice to see that you know nothing about ww2, battleships and dreadnoughts would perform the task of shore bombardment not destroyers.

[@basketcase1235]

@@austink4712 nice to know you totally missed the point of a 10yr old comment.

[@r3fle851]

@@austink4712 Nice to know that you are actually the one that knows nothing about ww2: while Battleships and cruisers did most of the bombardment in major battles, destroyers still do the same role on smaller landing/raid (e.g.: Battle of Treasury Island) Please do some research (at least on Wikipedia) before you shit on others

[@starsiegeRoks]

@@austink4712 woosh

[@ApeX-pj4mq]

@@austink4712 “know nothing about ww2”, how on Earth would you be able to deduce that from 2 sentences? This is also something not everybody learns about, and from that alone you somehow figured out he is clueless about everything regarding WW2, incredible,

[@27Bluebottle]

Just found out today (20th Feb 2023) that the man who created Space Battleship Yamato has died. Rest in Peace Leiji Matsumoto dono.

[@truesonny5761]

I remember being like 6 or 7 years old and would wake up at 6am to watch Star Blazers before school 😃 Damn, that was almost 40 years ago and I still feel like that same goofy sci fi geek. Which I most certainly am 😁

[@davidwong825]

If it was broadcasteD @ 6am, then they didn’t want anyone to watch !

[@styleslv8800]

@@davidwong825 it because of time difference in different countries I guess

[@towringer]

I used to run home after school to watch the anime at 3pm in 1979, before VCR's

[@tyr102]

Lucky fool, 40 years ago I had Scooby-do, and rerun loony toons, and Merry melody.

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

Once a sci-fi geek ..

[@Draco-jk3rb]

“Cripple their warp engines” *destroys entire fleet*

[@dixievfd55]

Was a core breach.

[@Deevo037]

Not subtle those Japanese.

[@tackyinbention6248]

I guess by destroying the power source you crippled it

[@marksolarz3756]

That will work too!

[@macdee6040]

Its code for, KILL THEM ALL.

[@fefnireindraer144]

LOVE this. It is wonderful to see a live action do justice to the anime I grew up with.

[@DMT-kk3dp]

Amen! When did they do the live action version??

[@michaelzahnle5649]

@@DMT-kk3dp 2010

[@alis4328]

Whats the anime?

[@FerrickAnima]

Uchuu Senkan Yamato (or Star Blazers in localized name)

[@Juliet1106Tango]

It didn't do the show justice though

[@davidalangay1186]

Wow, the transfer from the cartoon to the live-action scenes is perfect. The producers of Space Battleship Yamato must have loved this cartoon to pieces.

[@martykarr7058]

Not really. They tried to put a big story in a little box, and changed the relationship between Iscandar and Gamilas, and the nature of the Damilas themselves. The series "Yamato:2199" is better than the original series and the movie.

[@davidalangay1186]

@@martykarr7058 I never seen Yamato: 2199. I should give it a watch.

[@Dovahkiir96]

@@martykarr7058 agreed, there is also the fact they made the damilas a hivemind race too

[@Renserin]

Wow. Not only is there a live-action Yamato, it's actually quiet impressive! I don't think I've seen a space battle this impressive looking since Babylon 5 went off the air.

[@jerrypadilla4384]

Did you not catch "The Orville" season 2 episodes called "Identity" (Parts 1 & 2)? But, this is still so cool, none the less.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Ugh, that is so bad. The CGI is good but they changed so much for the worse. Yamato 2199 is way better. This is an insult to the original show. The writing is so bad.

[@stephendoherty8291]

At least Babylon 5 weren't using an old battleship as their ship of choice. I will concede some of the ship designs we're "unique"

[@Greymist73]

@@Jordan-Ramses I felt the same way when I watched it years ago.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

@@stephendoherty8291 - Using an old battleship was great. They simply used the hull and changed the interior. They do this with ships nowadays. They'll take a hull and make it something else. They've had battleship hull that were changed to light carriers etc.

[@dixievfd55]

"What do you hear?" "Nothing but the rain."

[@trumpbieberjustsuckokaydea9886]

"Then grab your gun and bring in the cat".

[@user-on1fl5xs1s]

dixievfd55 nice battlestar galactica reference

[@stevenkmiller]

@@trumpbieberjustsuckokaydea9886 Boom, boom, boom...

[@jonathonpolk3592]

So say we all!

[@cainabel615]

My favorite sci fi series of all time.

[@okedoke1234]

"Black Tigers....LAUNCH!!" Holy shit my childhood dreams come true. Grew up on this show!!! GREAT JOB!!

[@franzhaas3712]

As a little boy I grew up watching the anime. (STAR BLAZERS ) It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I was such a big fan. Now live action! This was so good it brought tears to my eyes. I love this film very very much. Thank you Japan .

[@joshuagrigartis4610]

"Disable their warp engines." A few minutes and one good salvo later and they disabled the whole damn ship into oblivian.

[@OM-st6uz]

Commander Grigartis That’s because the Yamato has the Iscandarian wave motion drive given to them specifically to fight of the gamilons. The gamilons themselves are from the twin planet of iscandar and the iscandarians gave them an inferior spaceship engine when the gamilons where in their Medieval ages, which has been the basis for the gamilons technology since.

[@killman369547]

@@OM-st6uz hehehe, smart move on the Iscandarian's part. If i had FTL technology and i felt generous enough to give it to someone i'd give them the crappy mk-1 version of the FTL drive as well and keep the awesome mk viii or whatever iteration i was on to myself.

[@primal_guy1526]

r/technicallythetruth

[@davidknowles2491]

18.1 inch rail guns will do that. ;)

[@hlmc00]

@@davidknowles2491they are shock guns or particle guns not rail guns

[@thelivingcat0210]

Dat turret traverse speed tho

[@daitsukishiro1505]

I need that in my Yamato (WoWS player copeing)

[@theheavytonk928]

I’ve heard the neck snap sound effect in my head when those turrets turned lol

[@antonintresl1761]

This felt very Battlestar Galactica like and I am all here for it

[@Firefox13A]

THIS is what I wanted to see from a Wing Commander movie...

[@locker1325]

Well I could watch that for hours it seems. This is no low budget. Sci-fi stuff. This is top shelf quality CGI. excellent rendering. Very fun to watch

[@samsignorelli]

And the Yamato saw more action in this movie and in the anime than it ever did in real life. And she looks pretty good for a ship that blew itself to pieces as it sank.

[@gunplanut]

The name of the effects company who did this movie's CGi is called Shirogumi. Actually, the movie had a very small budget; about 2.2 billion yen; at the time about $22 million US. Because Takuya Kimura (Kodai) sacrificed part of his salary because he was moved by the effects in Avatar.

[@FIREwithAQ]

The way they portray the fighters reminds me of BSG

[@ulrichbubel6009]

I like the physics of the space battles with the fighters not really behaving like planes in an atmosphere.

[@justforever96]

Are you being sarcastic? They flew exactly like planes, just like usual. Way too slow - in space an object never stops accelerating as long as the engine is turned on - always banking and rolling for turns, and turning far too sharply, just like a fighter jet in atmosphere pulling a 6G turn. In space, you have nothing by inertia and thrusters to overcome it. A fighter would never turn that way. And they would have figured out how to put a damn bubble canopy on so the pilot can actually see behind! We figured that out several times by the 1960s. The on;y times they didn;t fly just like planes were totally unrealistic in a different way.

[@hellothere_1257]

How do you know the fighters don't just keep constantly accelerating while their engines are on? There are never enought reference points to tell. The whole combat is obviously not realistic, given that space fighters exist at all, but this is definetly one of the better renditions of space fighters I've seen so far.

[@0x1EGEN]

...These fighters were drifting in space as if it had an atmosphere lol.

[@OpenMawProductions]

If you watch closely you can see the fighters using thrusters to adjust their pitch, yaw, roll, and the direction of their thrust. In that sense, yes, it is a better depicting of space warfare. They are not simply "zipping around like jets."

[@williamkwl6153]

@@0x1EGEN even though ship drift in space if you change the velocity? G force is a thing

[@FelipeASaito]

I'm 100% sure Yuki's portrayal in this movie is what inspired them to make Akira "Rei" Yamamoto in the 2199 adaptation

[@czarnykocoor]

cool scene , reminds me the X series spacesims and frantic space combats there. Thanks for uploading.

[@user-rg1wi1ez1j]

このヤマトの発艦はカッコよかった

[@user-tz3zx9gq6k]

わかる。

[@jmbrosendo]

I watched the animé in my infancy, had to videotape it because it came on at same time as school but every episode made my day, that whole intro song alone was awesome.

[@darkspire91]

First time I found this movie I assumed it was going to be shit. I love being proved wrong! xD

[@Fort_Master]

Same with me!!! The only part I didn't like was the end :(

[@Vasun05]

Every time I saw the ending I was like um guys Earth is being attacked over there...guys...guys come on you can stop making out now I know this is a tender but Earth right there

[@epiendless1128]

Yes, I was saying, "We know what you're going to do - get on with it!"

[@ericjamieson]

Yeah I loved the cartoon as a kid (we didn't call it anime back in the old days. Also I didn't find out until many years later that it wasn't originally called "Starblazers"). They used to show it after school on Channel 2 in San Jose, CA. The movie sounded super cheesy, which it kinda was, but in a good way. They did right by the source material.

[@k1productions87]

A lot of Battlestar Galactica influence too, I feel.

[@realshadowprime]

Yes I do...it's a great movie and I would definitely recommend it.

[@wiryantirta]

"just take out their warp engines" *Fucking cleans them*

[@suspicioususer]

Those don't look like Space Navy regulation haircuts...

[@SantomPh]

as the final ship on a desperate mission, one would think hair regulations would be bottom of the priority

[@Gnomleif]

♪He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer ... ♫♪

[@epiendless1128]

More reliable than a garden strimmer

[@weldonwin]

Hi head will never glimmer, He's Arnold, Arnold Rimmer...

[@deaftone311]

lot of things can go wrong, one thing they should always be able to count on, is the grooming standard.

[@realshadowprime]

That's fine and all...but for someone who'd never seen the anime...this was awesome.

[@alexgodzillafan3328]

Hmm... interesting reactions with the shock cannons. I guess that the high energy of the guns must have transformed the ship's warp engine in to a black hole. The black hole then went critical and exploded all of the energy from the shots. Awesome.

[@85Funkadelic]

I wonder if the gammillas use some kind of singularity based power system like the Romulans in Star Trek?

[@Phoenix8492]

@@85Funkadelic warp engines can have terrible effects when they are damaged and explode; warp engines on Warhammer 40,000 starships are absolutely horrible things in general. Breaking one of those with a critical hit can be devastating.

[@JJfromPhilly67]

Eighteen inch guns!

[@jonathan3213]

laser guns indeed

[@firestorm165]

more likely they're rail guns or gauss cannons firing superheated plasma projectiles

[@Gnomleif]

They are called shock cannons and are described as energy weapons, although they can also fire ordinary shells. Since the shots do a "Death Star superlaser"-thing and form spiraling beams I doubt they are rail guns.

[@letsexplore9527]

More like 18.1 inch if we're relating to the actual battleship Yamato

[@brianrogers7360]

@@firestorm165 if you go by the anime, they use high energy positron beams...

[@calvinhobbes7504]

Sir or madam, I can't thank you enough for posting this for us ..... and with English subtitles, too! I would love to see the entire fan-made series .... or whatever it is (movie, maybe?) Anyway, thanks for forcing me to figure out what characters are directly from the (US) animation. I have Wildstar and Avatar figured out .... but that's it! :) :)

[@MichelleAlexandria-EM]

this was a real movie made in Japan. It's available on iTunes. Space Battleship Yamato

[@thornjagger850]

Brings back great memories of after school 😁

[@KingBobBobBob]

I had no idea they had a live action sbsy that's amazing!

[@fluffdegoss]

The mighty Yamato. Loved this show when I was growing up. Might have to find this movie. The effects aren't half bad. Does it follow along the same lines as the anime?

[@andyguarino]

pretty much. This is one of the very few anime-based movies I thoroughly enjoyed

[@SantomPh]

being a movie a lot had to be left out but the feeling is the same

[@Shadowkey392]

It's the anime crammed into a two-hour-long movie.

[@k1productions87]

Did nearly everyone die in the anime too?

[@MichaelCasanovaMusic]

K1productions yes and no. This movie is a mashup between the first and second series of the show. The second series was a film called “soldiers of love” where everybody dies. But the creators received such an overwhelming response from the fans that they created the second series of the show. Which is basically the movie with a happier ending

[@smartalec2001]

Only the fighters are attacking, I wonder what those Star Destroyers are waiting for?

[@seomahazuri8999]

The fighters help to target while the star destroyer waits for information such as X, Y Degrees.

[@magnusdiridian]

They have special orders from Dessler himself.

[@halo5zero]

I just ordered my Blu-Ray for Region A (North America format) Can't wait to get it. Loved the cartoons growing up and now to see it in live action was well worth the wait.

[@rmas32]

Cool! I didn’t know they remade this. I’ve only known of the anime. I have them all on VHS!

[@davidwong825]

NOW, we ArE talking, VHS, must be a real fan

[@jimkid1392]

It's... Starblazers! That cool ass show from when I was a kid! Omg I must find the rest of this! And finish learning Japanese because I hate subtitles!

[@kevp9601]

Excellent

[@chewie211171]

It's definately worth a look. This movie is quite faithful to the original cartoon. I can definately recommend it.

[@clayton47799]

Great stuff!

[@ianfurqueron5850]

Such a fun movie to watch. Sure... you have to suspend any believe in physics or reality, but that's true for a lot of science fiction. I'd like to find this on DVD in the US (with the subtitles).

[@sircommander27]

Dont worry its on youtube

[@KURAMA-KEIBA]

古代の中折れする逆羽の戦闘機が好き。

[@d4j4r58]

thanks for sharing.

[@MrFishluver]

I want more!!!! My first time seeing this!!! MAS! MUCHO MAS!!!!

[@tabletopwarrior]

That's more damage than the ship did in real life.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

That isn't saying much. It's one important mission it was sent out with barely any fuel and told to beach itself and turn into a gun fort but it got sunk before it got there.

[@jatzi1526]

@@Jordan-Ramses You do know it helped sink an american light carrier during the battle off samar. Poor positioning, leadership to an extent, and a torpedo attack forced it to withdraw from the direct fighting which then led to the overall commander ordering a complete withdrawal. He thought the main US force was nearby due to the American destroyers attacking battleships and cruisers Point is though that Operation Ten-Go wasnt it's most important mission nor it's only battle

[@Jordan-Ramses]

@@jatzi1526 - I would call an assist on a CVE virtually nothing. The US didn't even count them as carriers and the saying was that CVE stands for combustable vulnerable expendable.

[@crazydiamondrequiem4236]

@@jatzi1526 That isn't saying much since they literally outnumbered the US forces in the battle of Samar. Yamato alone outweighed and outgunned the US ships in that battle and yet they were pushed away and failed to complete their mission.

[@user-hc8oj8cv4f]

It was retrofitted to function as a star destroyer/cruiser carrier (aviation and strong artillery both, and also a strategic weaponry).

[@TonViper]

How the hell did I not know about this series? I must seek it out at once.

[@alexkatc59]

looks great

[@kevp9601]

I Love It a Lot

[@Talos402000]

Should have kept the Gamillons similar to the originals.

[@daitsukishiro1505]

for the sake of keeping it a 2 hour long movie they had to dumify them

[@daimyo2k]

I have the DVD... MAN I would have loved to see this on the big screen!!!

[@kevp9601]

Incredible

[@retluoc]

It's been so long since I saw this, I forget if they knew their main cannons could cut through them like a warm knife through butter. And they shouldn't need a fighter to "paint" the target, the Yamato should be able to lock on its own.

[@rpscorp9457]

The cannons can lock yes, but they needed the tigers to get in close and scan for the specific spots to knock out its warp engines.

[@warbird1786]

I thought this movie was so awesome... I was kind of afraid this would wind up being as messed up as Speed Racer was... Pleasantly surprised... All action and not the crap stuff that hollyweird keeps putting out

[@stevencohen624]

warbird1786 Same here. This movie had a lot of heart. I particularly liked Susumu Kodai and Captain Okita. That ending still chokes me up. I loved the part in which they rolled the Yamato to port, opened the hangar bay door so that Kodai could land, and then warped away before the Gamilas planes could strike. What a great maneuver!

[@k1productions87]

It helps that it wasn't made in America, LOL

[@jamieolberding7731]

@@k1productions87 HEY! Not all of our Science Fiction movies here in North America are bad! You should watch (1982) film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." It's still the Number #1 BEST Star Trek film of all time. Here's the trailer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rICsipSIl5uLprM

[@Cavindar]

I will say the reason this film did so well is because Hollywood did not get there hands on it, but stayed with a Japanese company that knows how to keep with the story and not F@£? up

[@jamieolberding7731]

@@Cavindar Thank you.

[@richardjohnson4696]

They certainly took some liberties with the storyline for sure and the abilities of their weapons.

[@kevp9601]

Stupendous

[@michaelkenney8011]

This movie was great right up until they dragged out the ending.

[@craig.a.glesner]

As a Traveller RPG player I love the 20 minute turn till the next warp.

[@thorzcunstellarfighter3724]

those gamilas ships made the same sound as the HK-aerial from Terminator: salvation

[@scheusselmensch5713]

When the chap gets backhanded in the stomach the delayed reaction had me laughing, I don't know why. It might have reminded me of voice over delays that were common in far east dubbed movies?

[@10995]

There is one main flaw with the Space Battleship Yamato series in whole. They say they built the ship from the ruins of the Battleship herself. at the time of the original series, nobody knew what condition the wreck of the Yamato was in. They probably would not have made it the way they did if they knew that the ship has been blown apart in two badly destroyed sections.

[@k1productions87]

Similar to how they made the movie "Raise the Titanic" in 1980, assuming the sunken liner was still in one piece, and not two. For what it was, it was actually a pretty decent movie,... but then falls under the stigma of succumbing to newly discovered facts.

[@Quenstar]

They knew what happened. The explosion was heard for miles.

[@donaldduffy8947]

I own the dvd..its a really good movie.

[@wonniewarrior]

"You were only suppose to blow the bloody engines up !!".

[@easyalpha1]

This movie is excellent.

[@hypership9774]

top 10 anime epic battle

[@liamschulzrules]

Rob Schneider is such an underrated actor

[@Sonostatonominato]

I want to see it on TV into all world languages damn it

[@emaayan]

This is like watching martial arts in space

[@Hiro-zo6nn]

didn't expect it to be that good... also why is the most badass space battleship stuck on the ground?

[@erushi5503]

Because its cool that way

[@sid2112]

This deserves a modernization of the CGI.

[@seoulkidd1]

Sweet movie

[@citizenbobx]

"Good thing they were attacking us from the upper hemisphere arc where our three gun turrets were!"

[@ethelredcrimmins8984]

citizenbobx they would have rolled the ship, like is seen several other times.

[@SpiderkillersInc]

nice tactics on the captain's part.

[@ahmadsantoso9712]

It looks like a group of motorcyclists hijacking a ship.

[@halodystroyer44]

100% agreed.

[@yukitonakamura9117]

Classic, this is real space combat movie.

[@cdrocrossdiscovery]

I love the Black Tigers!!

[@user-pr7pz7yb3p]

実写版のガミラス艦・・・・なんかアメリカの映画{インディデンス・デイ}と{宇宙戦争}光景だ。

[@cdrocrossdiscovery]

The Black Tigers were my favorites!!

[@goldosprey]

Black Tigers moaning that Mori got there first is funny. Like they want some action too

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

1:28 "โถ้เอ้ยยัยโมริ! ขโมยซีนพวกเราเฉยเลย ก็เรามัวแต่ยืนเก็กอยู่นิ มึงก็เก็ก!"

[@Akatsuki_716]

I would assume so the cannons could pinpoint their FTL drives, we do the same thing today, using laser and GPS targeting systems to guide weapons with massively increased accuracy.

[@klinetalladen]

the fighters had to fly in close to give the cannons their targetting telemetry. i mean, they could probably eyeball it as is, but they sent the fighters to scout and tag em, just to be sure. :D

[@barryhercules6486]

Movie looks kinda awesome

[@CybershamanX]

(1:04) I love the music in this movie so much! I really like this movie, but (spoiler?) it's so sad that pretty much everyone on Yamato dies. 🙁 I guess that's a Japanese thing. Honorable death and all that. The Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato were really tragic. It's sad, but I really like that sort of thing. 😎

[@dirtfarmer7070]

They do say it's bad luck to name a ship after another that met an ignominious fate.

[@stephendoherty8291]

Nice to see in the future space has atmosphere and almost no gravity or G force

[@cptkettch]

From your comment I guess you want to sit in a theater for 80 hours while two fleets crawl across 8 light hours of space at .1 lightspeed to enter their respective spheres of engagement for a few seconds. Then swing around and reengage each other 45 to 90 minutes later. Sound exciting to me. Best to watch with movie space mechanics and keep the story moving.

[@krashd]

@@cptkettch Except none of that happened in the Expanse and that show was physics accurate.

[@FiveCentsPlease]

Amazing special effects with the Garmillan ship collapsing to a singularity. The Death Star should have blown that way also.

[@yukitonakamura9117]

"If you wanna hit me, you gotta try harder than that!"-Fox McCloud.

[@chrisphilhower6029]

All Hands to Battle Stations. All Fighter Pilots standing around a table.

[@fffidleGaming]

3:20 OP much (but super mega awesome sauce)

[@corthew]

Live action Starblazers? Cool!

[@EvilXero359]

There should be a game adaptation of this if there isn't one

[@KimCheeWarrior]

hard to believe that this movie only had a $20 million budget. could you imagine what that special effects company could have done with what americans consider to be a big budget? ive heard rumors that an american star blazers is being considered and i fear that the movie will not be shown the same love as how the japanese handled their version. i guess only time will tell.

[@madman3470]

Love the guys hat

[@Shadowkey392]

speak for yourself. I love this movie!

[@StutleyConstable]

Very impressive. I've never seen the Anime but I think I would like this movie. I always prefer seeing films in their original language. Reading the subs is less distracting than the dubbing of almost every non English language movie I've ever seen. This one looks like they put some real effort into the design. How do they account for converting 18" cannon to energy weapons?

[@erushi5503]

I think its a modular cannon from the anime, the 460mm cannons can switch between a photon energy based weapon to a kinetic shell based weapon that fires both AP, HE and air burst shells Well thats from the anime, i think they didn't put that function here in the adaptation

[@kyoumiehimejima6856]

This is what I'm talking about intensity cgi just like anime.

[@davidc2225]

The new battlestar galactica reboot is looking nice