The crew of the space battleship Yamato set out on a journey to the planet Iscandar to acquire a device that can heal the ravaged Earth.
In 2199, five year after the start of the Gamilas attack on Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the alien' radiation bombs and the remnants of humanity have fled underground. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discover a capsule sent from the planet Iskandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The United Nation of Space Administration rebuilds the battleship Yamato, with a new type of propulsion system - the wave motion engine. This enables it to make the long trip to Iskandar and back in hopes of saving the Earth. Within 73 days the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.

22 century, an unknown alien human called Garmisch Las entrenched Mars, and continued to launch Earth asteroid bomb with a strong radioactive material , causing Earth's countless casualties , endangered , and was forced to go to the underground to survive. At this critical juncture , the human composition of the universe Fleet expedition to Mars , the result is almost annihilated, luck fled to Japan , No. become the last hope of humanity . At the same time , a mysterious device through the thousands of miles Galaxy crashes to Earth, even the elimination of radioactive substances detected in the device . Masters from the device - the the Magellan the nebula stars intelligent beings seek to help the desperate , mankind has decided to send the Japanese for this expedition . Summoned rejoin members of the primary cosmic fleet ancient lost brother into the Battle of Mars ( Takuya Kimura ornaments ) , and all the friends to become a witness a great moment in history . Gamus Las learned that human movements launched a wave of deadly attacks ... The film adaptation based on the the Matsumoto zero of the same name as the original .