IMDb plot summary: Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him.
Directed by Shinji Aramaki. Starring Yu Aoi, Jessica Boone, and Ayano Fukuda.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock is a 2013 Japanese anime about a future world in which humanity set out to look for new homes in outer space but find Earth blocked off to them when they try to return. The titular Captain Harlock runs a pirate spaceship where he and a group of rogues have some sort of plan to get them back to their homes on Earth. I do very much like the visual design in this movie. The pirate ship in particular is just delightfully swashbuckle-y, and it has some very fun dramatic escape sequences. There are also some interesting plot twists that add good layers to the story. However, most of the story didn't work for me all that much. Neither our antagonist nor our protagonist are that interesting, and it feels like so many of the side characters that could have stood out just got glossed over. I do wonder how these character flaws might be righted in the manga or the anime, where they have more time to explore them. This 2-hour version could only really focus on the worldbuilding and the story's slightly-too-complicated plot that kept bringing in maguffins to fix the previous problem. So while it has promise, it falls a little short of delivering on that promise.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > The Devil Rides Out
Space Pirate Captain Harlock < Anna Karenina
Space Pirate Captain Harlock < Die Hard
Space Pirate Captain Harlock < Fanboys
Space Pirate Captain Harlock < Summer of Soul
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > The First Wives Club
Space Pirate Captain Harlock < The Lost Skeleton Returns Again
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > Frances Ha
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > The Lair of the White Worm
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > Mr. Nice Guy
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > The Matrix Reloaded
Space Pirate Captain Harlock > The Dissident
Final spot: #1777 out of 3727, or 52%.
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