Galaxy Express 999: The Movie

Your imagination is the final destination

A melancholic, visually stunning space odyssey that uses transhumanist themes and a mysterious maternal figure to explore grief, immortality, and the cost of revenge.

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.