Macross: Do You Remember Love?

In the year 2009, humanity is caught in a war with giant alien humanoids after an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashes on Earth. The vessel is rebuilt as the SDF-1 Macross, a flying fortress carrying tens of thousands of civilians, and when an enemy fleet attacks, the ship makes an emergency space fold that leaves it stranded far beyond the solar system. As the Macross journeys home, a young combat pilot named Hikaru Ichijyo meets Lynn Minmay, a popular singer aboard the ship, and becomes drawn into a complicated relationship that also involves his commanding officer, Misa Hayase. Their personal story unfolds against the wider struggle between the humans and the giant Zentraedi and Meltrandi forces.

The film is a retelling of the original Macross television series, reworking its story with new animation and new story elements. It was released in Japan in July 1984 and runs 114 minutes. It was directed by Shoji Kawamori, Noboru Ishiguro, Katsuhito Akiyama and Tatsuya Kasahara, from a screenplay by Sukehiro Tomita, and features voice performances by Mari Iijima, Arihiro Hase, Mika Doi and Akira Kamiya. Kawamori would later direct Macross Plus: The Movie and several Macross Frontier films, while Ishiguro went on to direct Megazone 23 and Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War. On IMDb the film holds a rating of 7.6 from around 3,700 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 7.3 from roughly 108 votes, indicating a solid following among viewers.