Lensman - Secret of the Lens [Harmony Gold] (1/9)

[IndygoEEI]

Sadly, this will never be re-released again or have the sequels done for it. The author of the original books hates this movie and I'm sure he'll never give permission for any re-release even in Japan.

[agudger11]

First anime i ever watched! i was 5-6 and remember nothing about it, only that it changed my life forever :P

[JohanElectric]

@agudger11 Cool, I'm glad to hear it.

This is a true classic and I hope you liked watching it again to bring back those memories.

[trence5]

@JohanElectric Its cool, I'm just partial to the original soundtrack, but that's just me

[prissweb]

JESUS i DIDn't even know they had cg back then 0_o

and why does this sound like robotech the sentinels. lol ahahhaa

[Wyrmshadow]

Oh No! They used the same music for Robotech: The Sentinels.. shame on your Harmony Gold for your stingy ways.

[Phavonic]

@Wyrmshadow No they didn't. This was made first in 1984, it wasn't released on VHS so Harmony Gold recycled the music for Sentinels afterwards. It is officially Lensman music. Shame on you for thinking otherwise !

[prissweb]

@Phavonic

oh that explains things. hahah

[sburns015]

I remember seeing this in the 4th grade way back in the 91-92 school year  on scifi channel lol damn im old, anyway great anime!

[asdfsgh5677869679]

otro de los fraudes de los retrazados de harmory gold , esto es animacion japo , que por la ignorancia de entonzes podian decir que era gringa ,

[Dynaman21]

The reason it's never been on DVD is because Doc Smith's estate has loudly expressed their desire to take a softball bat to everyone involved since the movie has nothing to do with Lensmen.

[AudioAndroid]

wow talk about a flash back i ordered this out of a magazine along with AKIRIA and battle angel i have these all on VHS! Thanks for uploading this :)

[JohanElectric]

@AudioAndroid No problem. This version was never released to buy on VHS as far as I know, so I hope you like it.

[Phavonic]

Off the subject: has anyone heard of an anime called PHOENIX: CHAPTER OF SPACE? (or HINOTORI: CHAPTER OF SPACE).

It is a classic Osamu Tezuka manga from his Phoenix series but is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, so it has the same art-style as this, Demon City, Wicked City, Cyber City, Goku Midnight Eye, Ninja Scroll and Running Man...but seems to be the one that got away !!

It looks really good, but absolutely nothing about it anywhere but a clip on the Tezuka website. Worth looking for :)

[BrockRockhard]

One of my all time favs as a kid!

[Dumpspace]

This is a very different translation than what I taped off of the Sci Fi channel so many years ago... one of the scenes on Buzzkirk's ship is even cut. (Come see the engine compartment! That's okay, the less I know, the better I'll feel.)

[Porongotainsane]

Kawajiri is the man !!!!

[tharouk]

I just found sth that blown my head off!!!!

Lensman is going to be a movie trilogy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

J. Michael Straczynski is the screenwriter and Ron Howard and Universal are behind the project!!!!

It took me over 20 years to find out what's all about this anime as i never seen it complete and the next thing im finding out is this!

I'm screaming from excitement although im not a kid anymore :D

Type lensman movie and make your research!

[themisanthropex]

Bought it at a library for a dollar. It was a C+ film, but me and my sister still had fun watching it. Best dollar I ever spent! :P

[tom11zz884]

Still no dvd release for this movie

[Shuffledude3000]

@tom11zz884 amazon or ebay? lol?

[HotaruZoku]

To this day it blows my mind he goes on board a potentially derelict ship, through a hull breach....with no suit.

[mrcdhn]

Thank u so much for posting this. One of my first anime films and still one of my favorite even after all these years

[Deadmilkmen1]

OH MY FUCKING GOD. Ive been looking for this movie for nearly TWENTY FUCKING YEARS. I couldnt remember what it was called.. FUCK!! AWESOME!!!!

[Da1shocker]

That theme song sounds like a track for Robotech II: Sentinels. Oh yeah did HG butcher this liek they did Macross?

[Phavonic]

@Da1shocker It might be the other way round. I think it was used here first and then recycled.

But I don't think Macross was butchered that much, nor this, though its edited. This and Robotech have very good original HG scores (by likes of Peter Davison, Michael Bradley and Ulpio Minucci). The eastern and western versions have just become different experiences.

[Da1shocker]

@Phavonic U gotta a good point but HG is just a shitty company that hasn't done shit with Robotech and tries to keep Macross out of the states.

[tom11zz884]

I can't believe i once had the laser disc of this thing, and sold it on ebay about 7 years ago, and only got $18.00 for it :(

[hassmann2000]

Star wars much?

[joel1975]

The opening music is one of  the musical themes for Robotech II: The Sentinels....

[yannisbskt]

I've watched this dozens of times ...I love it !!!too bad that the most extraordinary part of this film (sound)was ruined.thanks very much mate for uploading this.by the way the soundtrack is E-P-I-C.

[JohanElectric]

@yannisbskt No problem. You can download this avi file from my userpage, it has the sound corrected in stereo. Worth getting because this version is very rare. Tah.

[OfficialMedaBoys]

@JohanElectric thank you so much for the link

[andres119907]

@JohanElectric HOW DO I DONWLOAD THIS???? WHERE I CAN GET THE AVI FILE¨??

[weapon991]

@JohanElectric anything about lensman is rare, you can't find it at all, i would love to see it remade, but nothing over the top, just keep with the books laid out and follow it, but yeah love the movie, i just wish they continued with the story,

[andres119907]

'@yannisbskt WHERE CAN I GET THE AVI FILE WOULD YOU BE SO KIND TO TELL ME HOW??? IM FROM MEXICO BUT I THINK THIS S THE BEST VERSION OF THIS MOVIE HG

[kayele]

nice!

[ActionCarl]

Birth of a Nation IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

[THCBIZKIT]

whats with the audio the dialogue is different and some scenes are missing

[richman0829]

Look at the novels. No cheap jokes like test drives on falling-apart ships, no teenagers trying to fill the shoes of Galactic Patrol graduates. No. Sorry. Start with Triplanetary (from a used book store, or Amazon, or interlibrary loans), and build from there, and if you find a screenwriter with the panache of Doc Smith (difficult, but not impossible), you might just have something. Certainly, the technology is at last up to the challenge.

[richman0829]

Look at the novels. No cheap jokes like test drives on falling-apart ships, no teenagers trying to fill the shoes of Galactic Patrol graduates. No. Sorry. Start with Triplanetary, and build from there, and if you find a screenwriter with the panache of Doc Smith (difficult, but not impossible), you might just have something. Certainly, the technology is at last up to the challenge.

[Voidknight]

Its worth mentioning that this is based loosely on a series of books by one of the original space opera writers, a good mister E.E. Doc Smith, who apperently got the fellow that made the anime into sci-fi to begin with. So while its certainly not Hollywood, Japan can't really claim credit here either.

[Phavonic]

@Voidknight And apparently Doc Smith didn't like it as well.

[Voidknight]

@Phavonic

Pity too, I enjoyed the movie and the books that I've read so far. Never would have read the books too if the film hadn't been made. I get they are quite different but... Ahh well. Pity is all I can say.

[MrPhukyou]

Hollywood isnt all bad, it occasionally puts out some gems but when I want consistency I always go with a good anime. The stories in animes are often original and the animation is just something you hardly ever see in western animation. Japanese animators seem to put so much pride into thei work, i love it. All this talk about detail in anime gets me thinking about Ghost In the Shell. That movie had some of the most awesome animated scenes ever.

[Orbot]

I have this on vhs (don't laugh, I have a dvd player too, lol) Anyway, this is one of the most underrated in my opinion, animes ever! It has a grerat story, and good action. I love the characters too!

[CookyMonzta]

Oy! Very sloppy how Harmony Gold in 1988 prepared the dubbing for this classic. I'm glad I got hold of the Streamline Pictures 1990 redubbed version, which I'd bet is closer to the intent of the original 1984 Japanese movie. Gotta put it on DVD before the VHS tape starts going bad. Got mine for $20 in 2000. Want one now, it'll cost you at least $50, maybe $80.

[TKDLION]

Lol, 1:30 in and they have already copied from Star Wars and 2001.

[Hammern28]

Hmmm....I have this movie on VHS as well,HOWEVER,the music soundtrack is completely different,and better actually.

[CookyMonzta]

@Hammern28 I assume you have the Streamline Pictures version, yes? Much better than Harmony Gold. I first saw it on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1993. Bought the VHS in 2000. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Doc Smith's estate (or family) disavowed this movie. They didn't exactly approve of the adaptation when they saw the final product. I've got to READ all 7 books soon enough to see why.

[Hammern28]

@CookyMonzta Yeah,that is what I have,and it is alot better them H Gold.

[YTAFan]

@Hammern28 I agree. I recorded it when it was shown on an anime marathon on the Sci-Fi channel at least 15 years ago. The music and the dialog from that showing is completely different from what's here on YouTube, and they cut out a few things.

For instance, the harvester got clogged with the corn. After the guy asked a question, the robot answered, "Affirmative, and you, like everything else on this planet, are no help."

"Including yourself in that remark?"

"What! I most certainly am not!"

[Hammern28]

@YTAFan And now,I am ripping my version from VHS to my harddrive.Might just put it on youtube for people to watch.It is the best version completely.

[PikolUploader]

statistic shows....ah fuck it.

[redzool]

oh wow i haven't seen this is years... still a great movie though

[TsakirisAlexandros]

Sorry but the sound is corrupted, the left sound does not work at all.

Plus one request, do you have the beginning song alone as a good quality music?

[filanth]

i found the episode!first 6........but in greek(im greek and i found it on an old vhs club!!!coool hu??????..........everyone interests in p.m me..........

[mrjustin5]

QUESTION: Why does Hollywood keep churning out GARBAGE?! WHY CANT THEY MAKE A MOVIE with the same attention to detail, the same vision, the same SCALE as an Anime movie like this? I mean, look at this shit, its about 25 years old and it looks fuckin' awesome. Sure, the clothes and characters are dated, but look at the sets. Look at the ships, look at the consoles and control panels, look at the depth... look at the scale of space. Look at that junk floating in space. Hollywood BLOWS.

[JohanElectric]

(1) Yeah, someone would have to be a moron to not completely agree with you. I don't know why modern film. music and sci-fi have lost heart, but it must be something to do with the natural course of human development. We live in a highly democratic age related to information, so not only is there such a thing as "reality TV", putting amateurs into decourated positions that imitate old styles, but we also have people with no vision being drafted into the film-making industries as well.....

[JohanElectric]

(2) ....they seem to make films "by the numbers", which means we can see a ton of ALIENS imitations: all in derelicht spaceships, with a dark monster stowed away somewhere in the neverregions of the ship, etc. but straight-to-DVD crap for not being as innovative as the original

Yes, even the junk in this anime looks better than the machines in modern anime. I'm glad you have heart, but many kids are being brainwashed by these modern graffitti styles, we need a renaissance before's too late.

[mrjustin5]

@JohanElectric Thanks for the reply! I just went on a spree of RANTS last night. I watched the 2nd trailer to Skyline, the treaser trailer looked dark and fascinating. After seeing trailer #2, it looks like a 1950's cheesey monster movie. Tenticles grabbing a helicopter? COME ON! Its another 2012-style movie, big budget action flick. Number Four looks like crap, too. I am MAD that we DONT have a moon base, Mars base and many large spacestations I can vacation at, taking flight on a space plane.

[SPAMusubiHalau]

Culture is 1 reason - kids are torn in half on TV. The U.S. is too sensitive to those things. US Films rarely show evil triumph over good. US markets aren't willing to view evil winning on screen. (Studio Ghibli anime were originally altered to match US Market Studies). Cultures abroad are more openly accepting to strange concepts.

You'd be surprised at how many "Blockbusters" were "Stolen" and acknowledged only after it earned billions. (Research "Departed", "The Lakehouse", "Ponyo")

[CookyMonzta]

@mrjustin5 From what I've read, they're about to commit a major fuck-up with their production of the live-action version of 'Akira'.

[halsamdu]

@mrjustin5 My friend, in this sort of movies (anime) Japan is going on the Moon while the rest of world goes to Mickey Mouse's house....

[Orbot]

@mrjustin5 "Hollywood Blows".....ur just NOW finding that out, lol! Anyway, I feel you! This is an awesome anime, and I hope nothing further is done to take away from the splendor of this film. I have this film in it's orignal dub. I prefer that! Everything h-wood touches turns to mush!

[richman0829]

@mrjustin5 No. Look at the novels. No cheap jokes like test drives on falling-apart ships, no teenagers trying to fill the shoes of Galactic Patrol graduates. No. Sorry. Start with Triplanetary, and build from there, and if you find a screenwriter with the panache of Doc Smith (difficult, but not impossible), you might just have something. Certainly, the technology is at last up to the challenge.

[richman0829]

richman0829@yahoo.com No. Look at the novels. No cheap jokes like test drives on falling-apart ships, no teenagers trying to fill the shoes of Galactic Patrol graduates. No. Sorry. Start with Triplanetary, and build from there, and if you find a screenwriter with the panache of Doc Smith (difficult, but not impossible), you might just have something. Certainly, the technology is at last up to the challenge.

[drupib]

I want this theme!

[nonamesleftintheworl]

Wow, I haven't seen this since I was 5 or so. I just went through my older brothers old V.H.S. and found it :-D

[MakotoJay]

dude you the man......i miss watching this, and true....i haven't seen a dvd release of this anime.

[twoteekay]

My BF made me look for this right after looking up more classic toons.

But he remembers the American release, but is still happy as hell for this upload.

He said that yeah, it probably wont every be released, so THANKS AGAIN DUDE

<333

[LegendaryGoldDragon]

Wow this is convenient I was just looking for English Versions of Lensman on different sites. It must have been fun taking this from VHS, to DVD to AVI or MPG witchever you loaded it as. Thanks for the efforts though prob one of the more popular clasics of anime :-D

[killyadventure]

Thank you so Much !! im downloading the full version already ;) hands up

[MrMiister]

best translated version ive seen (ive been a lensman fan since i was 15) same voice actors ?

crap music though .. more alfee :)

[bzbz1]

been searching for this for the past 10 years (probably more) !!! thanks for uploading!!!

[mctablina]

Basically this version, the Harmony Gold version, cut a number of scenes from the original and did not use the original soundtrack. Fail.

[KithSjet]

Long Live the Britannia Battle Cruiser! we, Pilots of eve online salute the galactic patrol!

[zyphernovazephyr]

I loved this movie... I used to own the VHS, ever since I moved it's gone missing.

Buzkirk is one of my favorite characters.

[sl1963]

This is a classic, still got my vhs version, great movie got it around the same time as Akira, RG Veda and Odin when Manga video started bringing them to the uk. Nothing beats Akira though.

[bowlofarthritus]

The movie was redubbed I see.

[bowlofarthritus]

definitely not the original opening. The video clips are, but not the music. Plus the opening credit txts weren't there ether..... God Im a fucking nerd for remembering that

[stoutbear]

@bowlofarthritus I was thinking the same thing and thought the same thing about myself!

[tom11zz884]

Still no dvd of this movie...totally insane

[joe9songs]

Thanks for uploading such an awesome and totally unavailable film. Thanks for your time and efforts :)

[JohanElectric]

No problem, Thanks for watching.

[r0lly90]

guys i am looking for an anime featuring a girl cyborg ninja and some ''sun god'' and the mother machine...can any1 help ??

[bakin88k]

have you found this one? because i am looking for it too...

[r0lly90]

nope...no trace of it...

[bakin88k]

if you ever find it let me know...

[Nalebranc]

@r0lly90 You know, that sounds kinda familiar. Can you describe it in detail?

[Spacirelei]

This will always be Robotech Sentinals Music. Honestly Harmony Gold. Are you that lame and poor that you have to use Sentinals music for everything because you paid for it?

[NexAngelus405]

lol, one of the guys in the control room looks like Takakazu Abe.

[gjaymz]

i have this in VHS and its from streamline, and i like both the streamline and the harmony one both r great i guess its just a matter of taste, and well this movie rocks, and i dont know wher ei read that theres the posibility to make a new version of it which i think it could be awesome since the technology these days its awesome

[InsaneDavid]

Thank you for uploading this as it is important that this version is archived. However why anyone would praise this version or its soundtrack is far beyond my understanding. Both the dub and soundtrack seem cheap and haphazard, as is the case with most stuff Harmony Gold had a hand in - and Carl Macek before Streamline as well for that matter. Always love those titles that look like they were done at an AV repair shop.

The Streamline version is lightyears above this first attempt.

[JohanElectric]

The streamline version is probably the better voice dubbing, but the soundtrack music here is excellent.

John Williams and Star wars set a standard for herioc music, but this is excellently dramatic synth music in its own right. Watch part (7/9) and listen to that medley !! it doesn't strike me as cheap since people can't really emulate this spirit today. Very rich music in my opinion.

[CookyMonzta]

@InsaneDavid Aye. They saw the (deliberate) flaws in the Harmony Gold version, the way HG went out of their way to sanitize it for a "mainstream" audience. Consider the way they edited the scenes in which Helmuth tears apart his mission commanders.

Raw animation like this is not meant to be watered down into some sort of CARTOON! ANIME DEFINITELY AIN'T NO CARTOON! Sadly, that is why the U.S. lags LIGHT-YEARS behind Japan when attempting to make animated sci-fi and fantasy.

[JohanElectric]

@CookyMonzta

I think in the 80s and early 90s anime wasn't yet a recognized category in the west, so most of the stuff only fell into the children's section because it was the only way to communicate it. Just about all those 80s cartoons were Japanese or American-Japanese co-productions. like Mask and Inpsector Gadget, etc.

I think that the importers now will never put anime into chidlrens section again since it now has its own mature category.

[killbison]

Christ, nice this is here, but I recommend watching the Streamline version as opposed to Harmony Gold (although, I think both were Carl Macek.....nevermind....)

[ExilePrime]

Wasn't there a few different english dubs of this ? I have a bootleg from ebay that was from sci-fi channel (mid to late 90's) that's different then this one.

[yethboth]

Yes, there was a Streamline Pictures English Dubbed version of the Lensman Movie which was the full original and uncut version from the original Japanese version with the original soundtrack from the original Japanes version. The Streamline Pictures English dubbed version is much better dubbed and voice acted as well.

[Spacirelei]

I agree...but I can't deny hearing Steve Kramers voice acting...he was always a favourite.

[usercommandkill]

OMG... nostalgia bomb! This thing is impossible to find! Thank you so much for uploading it.

[cloudcutter81]

Indeed! i ve been looking for this anime for years, and at last here it is! TKTKTK for posting this

[toyx24]

heeeyyy where i can find the soundtrack of this.. i've already bought the 20th anyversary music disc of robotech masters and yeah some tracks are in there but not all tracks from lensaman, especially i want the battle, acction soundtracks, can anyone help me? i'd would be thankful for that

[JohanElectric]

I've been searching for that soundtrack for years. The composer Peter Davison now makes yoga-stimulation music.

I emailed him and he said he gets a lot of requests for Lensman music, but he's lost the original master tapes because he's made so much music he's been clumsy by leaving tapes everywhere and can't find anything ! A Massive shame.

If you email him again it might push him to look harder, it'd sell like hell if it was put on CD.

[eimaiokalyteros]

@toyx24 do you have the opening track?i've searching it for years too

[KamekTV]

In my country we have a different dub (all but the mohawk guy's VAs are different) but with more scenes and all the original music left intact, but this dub is interesting. If I could, I'd upload the American dub and see what you would think of it.

[hattori5891]

havent seen it since years back. thanks dude

[johnbk80]

Did you copy this from Sky Movies around 1989? I think I did the same but I have lost it since. Thanks fro putting this up, brings back good memories.

[JohanElectric]

Yeah, from Sky Movies around 1990 !

It had an opening like "4;00 o'clock kids movie" at the beginning I cut off, with transformers and other cartoons.

Nice to think you could come home from school at 4;00 and watch something like this...