(Japan, 1979) OTAKON presents, in honor of the legendary life and works of the late Manga-ka, Leiji Matsumoto! Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and ending at Andromeda on the other. Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine,including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother. [Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama. Rated T (Teen) for possible nudity, comic mischief, and/or mild violence. Distributed by Discotek]