Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother!? (1980) - The A.V. Club
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Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother!?

1980
1h 30m
Animation/Drama/Sci-fi
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Cast

Banjô Ginga (Headquarters Member B)Masako Ikeda (Maetel)Chiyoko Kawashima (Child D)Kaneta Kimotsuki (Conductor)Satomi Majima (Child B)Yoshiko Matsuo (Artemis)Minori Matsushima (Child C)Masako Nozawa (Tetsurô Hoshino)Masaharu Satô (Headquarters Member C)Hidekatsu Shibata (Machine Counter)

Directors

Osamu Kasai, Takenori Kawada, Nobutaka Nishizawa

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Synopsis

Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space,beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and ending at Andromeda on the other. Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother.

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