Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise (1987)

All the other comments are swooning about how artistic and masterful the story telling is. For me its impossible to get past how slow, dull, and ultimately pointless this movie is. Very little happens in this film. What you read in the synopsis, that is it. There is no tension. There is no suspense. there is no action. The romantic elements are boring too. It really is hard to say anything good about this movie. The animation itself is dated and the colors are washed out. Some people can look past that, but it certainly is a flaw. Its not a painless thing to sit through either. The movie feels VERY VERY long. It seems to go on forever while you writhe in your seat and bare it as to not offend your weird friend who thinks its a masterpiece.If you don't like slow boring movies, this is not something you should spend your time on.

I saw this after it first hit the video market many years back, and wasn't sure what to make of it. We're looking on the life and times of an astronaut candidate, and he various rigors he goes through to be the world's first man in space on an Earth that might have been in another time and another place.The film somewhat reflects and resembles "The Right Stuff" Japanese style; i.e. we see astronaut candidates go through various tests, physical and psychological, as well as how they interact with regular mainstream society when their program is something being financed outside the public eye. It's a kind of anime-bio-pic drama for people who never existed.As mentioned in other reviews there's the sexual assault scene which, to me anyway, seemed to come right out of the blue. Why it's in this film is beyond me. A more reasonable and logical alternative would have been for the main character to try and romance the object of his affection, but, like the film makers remind us on the commentary, the characters aren't particularly bright.Minus that one scene, this might have been a fantastic anime sleeper. Something that teenage boys of all walks of life could enjoy, as the finale gives us a climatic clash and ultimate resolution to what we anticipate is the final dramatic conclusion of the film.Because of the one scene I find the film to lean more in the "miss" category of "hit or miss", otherwise it could have been a real award winner, and enjoyed by all mature teenagers and older.The alternate world presented is worth seeing for any anime aficionado.If you know what to expect from Japanese mature animation, then this might worth a look.

The only way I can describe how this film makes me feel is to compare it to a child watching My Neighbor Totoro. It is animation but not quite what you see everyday. It has a plot but it has subtle and even hidden depth.To me this film is so good that it ceases to be "just anime" to become film art in the truest sense: it conjures up an imaginary world and makes it real, people have troubles and tribulations and we identify with them, everything comes to conclusion and we are changed by it and for the better.For people think this is just sunday network cartoons two hours long I recommend watching this alongside Apollo 13 and/or Forrest Gump and try to find the analogies, you'll be surprised.

I was so excited to have finally purchased this movie. It should be in everyones Anime collection. The film does not disappoint! But the DVD is another matter. To my disappointment this DVD is riddled with encoding problems. The picture is fuzzy and toward the layer switch it breaks up (pixelization). I own about 250 DVDs many of them with dual layers and this is the only one that has this problem. I know this DVD may react differently to different players. But my Panasonic did not like this disc. This disc should be recalled and a new remastered reissue made.