Space Adventure Cobra

スペースアドベンチャーコブラ

Aired: 1982

Anime film produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and distributed by Toho, based on Buichi Terasawa's SF action manga serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. Released July 3, 1982, 99 minutes long, directed by Osamu Dezaki. The legendary space pirate Cobra, equipped with a psycho-gun in his left arm, and the android Lady embark on adventures over a fabled treasure. The film featured then-cutting-edge techniques like Dolby Surround and pseudo-3D visuals. Dezaki's direction and Shigeru Matsuzaki's theme song 'Daydream Romance' have made it an enduring classic. (C)Buichi Terasawa