Phoenix 2772

Phoenix 2772 2772 , Hi no Tori 2772 Ai no Kosumozn? , lit. Firebird 2772 Loves Cosmozone is a 1980 Japanese animated science fiction feature film directed by Taku Sugiyama and written by Osamu Tezuka, based on Tezukas manga series Phoenix Hi no Tori. An international version called Space Firebird was dubbed in Hong Kong and then released in the UK in 1980. An edited version was released in the United States in 1983. A French version had also been released under the title Firebird 2772. The film premiered on March 15, 1980 in Japan.

For his crime, Godo loses his citizenship and is sent to a labour camp in Iceland where mining energy from the Earths core is being harnessed in a bid to save the world but adversely causing earthquakes and speeding up the process. While interned and heartbroken over losing Rena, he meets Doctor Saruta, a prison professor who wishes to counsel the young pilot, only to secretly plot with him a plan to escape, search for the Phoenix themselves and save the Earth. Eventually, Godo is saved by Olga and Pincho a pet creature of Rena that had helped the lost Olga, and they set into space.During various displays of thengroundbreaking animation, Godo and the crew of the ship find it almost impossible to subdue the Phoenix and it changes into many monstrous shapes and sizes, from dragons to tentacular leeches. After learning that Rena is to marry Rock, Godo had become stricken with misery and pushes away Olgas advances when she shows signs of love and previously jealousy for Godo. With the crew all killed onebyone by the Phoenix and the secret of its weakness lost in Sarutas last words the Phoenix finally destroys Olga by burning her to death, and Godo finally surrenders. As he cradles Olga, realizing how selfish he had been towards his only friend in the world, the Phoenix is subdued by the power of love and thus boards the ship in the form of what appears the cross between an angel and a peacock. ........

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