Yoshinobu Nishizaki (西崎 義展, 18 December 1934 – 7 November 2010) was a Japanese film producer, writter and director best known as one of the two co-creators of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato. He was sometimes credited as Yoshinori Nishizaki. He was graduated from the Nihon University Art Department.
Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Release Date1974-10-06
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count12
Three years have passed since the battle with the White Comet Empire. President Dessler, who has been searching for a new mother star to save the dying Gamilas people, finds a star that meets the conditions in a section of the Milky Way galaxy. But it was within the territory of a mighty interstellar nation. The territorial dispute that broke out in the galaxy inevitably involves the Earth, which has a security treaty with Gamilas. The magic of the time fault, which brought military and economic advantages to the earth, has disappeared in exchange for their own lives. Susumu Kodai sets out on a training voyage with the new crew in preparation for an upcoming emergency. Without knowing that someone who is aiming for himself is in the middle. Yamato is about to embark on a new journey in an era of unprecedented anxiety. On the way, an unimaginable new enemy awaits ...
Release Date2024-05-02
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Release Date1973-04-02
DepartmentWriting
JobSeries Composition
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki's attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato, set several hundred years after the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach of copyright. Ultimately, Yamato 2520 was left unfinished after only three episodes were released. The OVA series features mechanical designs by Syd Mead and a soundtrack by jazz musician David Matthews.
Release Date1995-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being known as the "Choujin" (Overfiend) will emerge and bring balance to all three realms on Earth. In present-day Japan, after 300 years of endless searching, a Jujinkai named Amano Jyaku has discovered the presence of the Choujin inside high school slacker Tatsuo Nagumo. But now, Amano, along with his sister Megumi and their sidekick Kuroko must protect Nagumo and his new girlfriend Akemi Ito from the Makai, who believe that Nagumo is not the Choujin, but an evil entity bent on destroying all living beings on Earth.
Release Date1989-03-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count110
2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a "Cosmo Reverse System" at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly, it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the "Gatlantis," and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls himself "Goran Dagaamu of Thunder." The commander demands that Yamato be handed over to him. Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the "Flame Direct Attack Cannon" that can transcend space.
Release Date2014-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count14
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
Release Date2010-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count232
In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on course towards the solar system. As the people on Earth prepare to relocate to planet Amare, whose ruler offers refuge, the tyrants known as the "S.U.S. Empire" attack the first Earth evacuation fleet. After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he intends to not only help humanity once again, but also find Yuki in the hope of helping his relationship with his daughter Miyuki, who puts the blame on him for her mother's disappearance. But in order to fullfil the mission, the Yamato must go through battles against the SUS Empire, who intend to spoil humanity's hopes of finding a new place to live in and turn Earth into energy for their own selfish needs.
Release Date2009-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.
Release Date1985-08-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count9
The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.
Release Date1983-03-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.
Release Date1979-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
Release Date1977-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
Release Date1980-08-01
DepartmentCrew
JobScript
Vote Count9
The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.
Release Date1978-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobIdea
Vote Count8
First film in the theatrical version of Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199, covering chapters 1–2. In 2209, a mysterious "Grand Reverse" invades Earth's capital, defying defenses. The former Yamato crew reunites on a secret order, embarking on a perilous journey as an unknown invader threatens humanity's fate.
Release Date2024-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
Compilation of episodes 1-2 of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 TV anime.
Release Date2012-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count7
The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a husky puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much time looking for his mother. During his adventures on the street he meets friends, enemies and his beloved girlfriend. This OVA reunites the complete series aired on TV.
Release Date1989-05-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
5,000 years ago, the Triton Family was living peacefully in Atlantis until the Poseidon Family destroyed them all. Triton, of the Triton Family line, embarks on an adventurous life in the sea fighting the Poseidon Family.
Release Date1979-07-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Release Date1987-10-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Theatrical release of episodes 7-10 of Yamato 2202.
Release Date2017-10-14
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Vote Count4
Soccer movie.
Release Date1979-07-21
DepartmentSound
JobMusic Producer
Compilation film of "Space Battleship Yamato 2199" TV series. The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader's assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth. It contains humanity's last hope: the planet Iscandar on the other side of the Magellan Galaxy has the technology to defeat the Gamilos and restore the planet. The space battleship Yamato is entrusted with this task, but they have only one year before humanity ends.
Release Date2014-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
Release Date2021-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Release Date2012-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date2013-06-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Theatrical release of episodes 23-26 of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.
Release Date2013-08-23
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Second film in the theatrical version of Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199, covering chapters 3–6. In 2209, a mysterious "Grand Reverse" invades Earth's capital, defying defenses. The former Yamato crew reunites on a secret order, embarking on a perilous journey as an unknown invader threatens humanity's fate.
Release Date2024-11-22
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
Theatrical release of episodes 7-10 of Space Battleship Yamato 2199. Deals with contact with the Galamis (Gamilon) enemy and offers an original story that delves into areas that the first Space Battleship Yamato anime did not explore.
Release Date2012-10-12
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
Second theatrical compilation of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 series, featuring episodes 3-6.
Release Date2012-06-30
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count3
Third film in the theatrical version of Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199, covering chapters 7–10. In 2209, a mysterious "Grand Reverse" invades Earth's capital, defying defenses. The former Yamato crew reunites on a secret order, embarking on a perilous journey as an unknown invader threatens humanity's fate.
Release Date2025-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Theatrical release of episodes 3-6 of Yamato 2202.
Release Date2017-06-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 23-26 of Yamato 2202.
Release Date2019-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 19-22 of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.
Release Date2013-06-14
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Compilation movie of Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love
Release Date2021-01-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Release Date2022-02-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 11-14 of Yamato 2202.
Release Date2018-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 19-22 of Yamato 2202.
Release Date2018-11-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical version of the first two Yamato 2202 episodes.
Release Date2017-02-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 15-18 of Yamato 2202.
Release Date2018-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
50th Anniversary Project for the legendary space opera.
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 11-14 of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.
Release Date2013-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Theatrical release of episodes 15-18 of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.
Release Date2013-04-13
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
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