# anyone know what this manga film is?

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**Created:** [July 4, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-manga-film-is/186223 "2003-07-04T12:17:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-manga-film-is/186223/1 "2003-07-04T12:17:11Z")

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now then, this will probably testing memories. in about 82/83, when i was 5 or so, me and my dad watched a manga film on video.  
the basics are, hero who flys a spaceship thats shaped like a shark plays a cat and mouse game in a big asteroid field against a bad guy with a big black beard. (it might be the bad guy flying the sharkship)  
this is near the end of the film. i think the good guy dies, and leaves behind a wife and child, who are left in a spherical ship all alone on a beach at sunset.

any manga peeps out there have a clue which film it is? probably late 70s/early 80s vintage, and the i know the above details are a bit sketchy, but it was 20 odd years ago

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**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-manga-film-is/186223/2 "2003-07-04T12:18:35Z")

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or it might be better if i say anime film rather than manga