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1981 Anime Movies

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Galaxy Express 999(1978-1981)

3.9/5 (with 9 votes)

In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.

Tomorrow's Joe(1970-1981)

25min per episode | Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Joe Yabuki is a troubled youth, whose only solution to problems is throwing punches at them. What he lacks in manners and discipline, he makes up for with his self-taught fighting skills. One day, while wandering the slums of Doya, Joe gets into a fight with the local gang. Although greatly outnumbered, he effortlessly defeats them, drawing the attention of Danpei Tange—a former boxing coach turned alcoholic. Seeing his potential, he offers to train Joe into Japan's greatest boxer. At first, Joe dismisses Danpei as a hopeless drunk; but after the trainer saves his life, he agrees to live with him and learn the art of boxing. Unfortunately, Joe's personality makes him an unruly student, and he often falls back to his old ways. To survive the harsh world of his new career, Joe needs to trust his mentor and master the techniques taught to him. However, the road to becoming a professional boxer is rife with struggles that will test his mettle to the end.

Ikkyū-san(1975-1982)

30min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The mischievous adventures of a young Ikkyū during his stay at Ankoku Temple. He relies on his intelligence and wit to solve all types of problems, from distraught farmers to greedy merchants.

Directed by Kimio Yabuki

Mobile Suit Gundam(1979-1980)

4.0/5 (with 23 votes)

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a war? Teenager Amuro Ray sees his life shattered when war comes to his home. During the chaos, Amuro finds himself inside the mobile suit Gundam, the Earth Federation's new secret weapon, and he somehow gets it to work. Amuro and the other refugees flee their homeland on the warship White Base. This group of children and inexperienced soldiers will change the outcome of the war.

Directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer(1981)

3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Seven years ago, Lopplc and Morina were playing at a park. Suddenly they felt an earthquake on the Koya Koya Planet. The quake was so massive that the planet was destroyed. Everyone had to escape using a giant ship. A sudden bolt of lightning damaged the ship, causing a power failure. The Professor (who was Morina's father) wanted to fix the spaceship, but another lightning strike took him to another dimension.

Directed by Hideo Nishimaki

Swan Lake(1981)

3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess ...

Directed by Kimio Yabuki

Chie the Brat(1981)

3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.

Directed by Isao Takahata - With Chinatsu Nakayama, Ichirō Nagai

Sea Prince and the Fire Child(1981)

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

In this Japanese animated film, Sea Prince and Fire Child are two youngsters in love who flee from their disapproving parents into a world filled with risks and adventure.

Directed by Masami Hata - With Tōru Furuya

The Door Into Summer(1981)

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.

Monster of Frankenstein(1981)

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together with his partner Zuckel, the monster attacks the assistant and falls from a cliff. Assuming the monster is dead, Victor returns to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Emily. A police inspector named Bellbeau investigates some mysterious mutilations killings, and Victor is blackmailed by his former assistant, who lost an eye in his fight with the monster.

Directed by Toyoo Ashida

DAICON IV Opening Animation(1983)

3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A girl is visited by two men from a space ship. They give her water she needs for her daicon (radish). On her journey to deliver the water, she crosses paths with iconic characters from comic books, live-action films, literature and animation.

Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga

Space Warriors Baldios(1981)

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

After polluting their own planet beyond repair, a race of evil aliens target earth as their next home. Now it is up to a lone outcast and his robotic spacecraft, Baldios, to defend earth. But, first he must convince the distrusting human population of the impending danger.

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Run, Melos!(1992)

1h 47min | Animation, History, Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The movie tells the story of Melos, a Greek country man that gets arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king. He gets three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage. As opposed to Osamu Dazai's original story, Melos is here innocent of the conspiracy accusation.

DAICON III Opening Animation(1981)

3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A short anime film that was produced for the 1981 Daicon III Nihon SF Taikai convention.

Directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga

The Enchanted Journey(1981)

1h 30min | Animation
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Pippo, young chipmunk Glikko leaves the safety of his comfortable cage to explore the world. Stars Jim Backus and Orson Welles.

Directed by Hideo Nishimaki - With Yū Mizushima, Kōsei Tomita, Rihoko Yoshida, Takeshi Aono, Yōko Asagami
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