Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth (1982) on Netflix
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Earth has fallen to the Illumidus Empire, and Captain Harlock returns to a conquered Earth aboard the Deathshadow. He refuses to serve the occupiers and looks for the Voice of Free Arcadia.
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Captain Harlock brings his battle cruiser, the Deathshadow, home to an Earth that has already surrendered to the Illumidus Empire, whose occupation is enforced with the help of the Tokargans. A refugee ship crashes on the airfield, and a Tokargan official seizes the vessel and Harlock's gun, ordering him to report to the local Illumidus officer within two hours. Harlock spends that time hunting for the woman whose pirate radio broadcasts of hope have earned her the name Voice of Free Arcadia. In a bar he meets Toshiro, a beggar who hides a Solar Federation uniform beneath his rags and who feels strangely familiar. Their arrest by the Tokargan police leads to a laboratory where a machine compares their DNA.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
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- The voice of Phantom F. Harlock was Yujiro Ishihara, the acclaimed Japanese actor; it was his final role before his death in 1987 and his only role in an animated film.
- The animators of Arcadia of My Youth used a real Revi C-12D gunsight as visual reference, because character and concept creator Leiji Matsumoto reportedly owned an actual one.
- Celebrity Home Entertainment first released the film in North America as Vengeance of the Space Pirate with about forty minutes cut, most notably the prologue set in the Owen Stanley Mountains of New Guinea.
- Arcadia of My Youth stirred controversy by portraying Phantom F. Harlock II, ancestor of the hero, as a German fighter pilot flying an Iron Cross plane during World War II.
- Arcadia of My Youth is the only Captain Harlock story that shows how Harlock lost his eye, and it also shows Emeraldas receiving the facial scar that makes her a virtual double of him.
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