Galaxy Express

In September 2019, I watched the movies Galaxy Express and Adieu Galaxy Express at a theater for the first time in 38 years. I had lost my interest in the second one already because I had suspected that it plagiarized from Star Wars Episode V, yet I remembered that the first one touched me as a child. Moreover, when I knew the information about playing them at the theater, Meguro Cinema, I felt nostalgic and decided to watch both of them. The movies assume that humans can live forever if they get machine bodies. It is interesting, for it might become a reality in the future. After watching them, however, I felt that they were aimed at children after all. It might have been just that I totally lost the mind of a child. Anyway, I felt nothing but nostalgia and I even thought that they were old-fashioned. 

I also think that Hayao Miyazaki is great because the animated movies The Castle of Cagliostro and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind are not old-fashioned yet, though they were respectively produced just one year before and just three years after Adieu Galaxy Express. I also believe that both of them can still entertain not only children but also adults.