Shin Kaitei Gunkan (1995)

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In 1932, the Japanese Army investigates a mysterious meteorite crash in Manchuria, and discovers a strange material that produces a previously unknown kind of energy. The mineral is later used during the Second World War to power a massive submersible battleship Ra, which is built to revitalize the war effort. Shortly before the launch, a young woman named Annette approaches the officers of the Ra and implores them not to use the battlesub. She says the material was sent by subterranean humans to test the surface dwellers right to live, and by using it as a weapon of war they are sealing the human race's fate. The Ra is launched in the twilight days of the war, and shortly after the bombing of Hiroshima the Ra encounters the American battlesub Liberty, whose crew has been tricked into fighting the Ra by Annette's former partner and friend Avatar, whose appraisal of the human race is much more negative than her counterpart. Annette stops Avatar with a blast of mental energy, but the Ra and Liberty destroy each other. Annette and the Ra's first officer are the only survivors. Fifty years later, an unaged Annette and the grandson of the Ra's captain, Go Arisake, are part of a UN team sent to investigate microwaves being generated at the South Pole. It proves to be a prelude to a massive attack from below the Earth, led by Avatar, that will culminate in the complete destruction of the surface humans. However, Go discovers his grandfather's old ship has been found and rebuild as humanity's last line of the defense, commanded by his believed to be dead father, as the final battle to defend Earth begins. Movie Tagline: Our Armed Forces Are Helpless, The World's Navies Destroyed!Now, Our Only Hope Is The Secret Weapon Never Used In World War II! Title: Shin Kaitei Gunkan Release Date: July 14, 1998 Genre: Animation All Genres: Animation, Sci-Fi, War Languages: English Country: Japan Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 7.0 Buried.com Rating: 8 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com) Category: Horror Movies Starting With S Director(s): Kazuyoshi Katayama Amanda Winn Lee Cast: Aaron Krohn ...Go Arisake (voice) Amanda Winn Lee ...Annette (as Amanda Winn) Tiffany Grant ...Avatar (voice) Charles Campbell ...Island Controller (voice: English version) Jeff Campbell ...UN Recruit 1, Additional Voices (voice: English... Laura Chapman ...Newswoman (voice: English version) Angel Fisher ...Additional Voices (voice) Jeff Gardner ...UN Recruit 2, Additional Voices (voice: English... Matt Greenfield ...young Tachibana, Milias, Additional Voices (voice:... Todd Greenfield ...Daniel (voice: English version) Tiffani Harris ...Additional Voices (voice: English version) Allison Keith ...... Jason Lee ...Stoner (voice) Tristan MacAvery ...Old Tachibana, Admiral Bogart, Additional Voices... Rob Mungle ... (voice) Rick Peeples ...Doc, Additional Voices (voice: English version)... Marcy Rae ...Shino Arisaka, Additional Voices (voice: English... Lorraine Reyes ...Additional Voices (voice: English version) Dan Rockwell ...Additional Voices (voice: English version) Doug Smith ...Hino, Additional Voices (voice: English version) Spike Spencer ...Mikoshiba, Additional Voices (voice: English... Kurt Stoll ... (voice) Brett Weaver ...young Kageyama, Adjutant, Additional Voices (voice:... Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Tetsuhisa yamada Writer(s): Nobuaki Kishima Shunro Oshikawa Composer(s): Masamichi Amano More Photos from Shin Kaitei Gunkan More Movie Taglines: Our Armed Forces Are Helpless, The World's Navies Destroyed!Now, Our Only Hope Is The Secret Weapon Never Used In World War II! IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Anime, Based On Novel  ...[more] Keywords All: Seen it? Rate it Currently 8.00/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 8.0 out of 10.0 - 51 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST