This is an animation film that received fairly good reviews (Ebert gave it 3-stars with some comments about the old Sci-Fi masters; Heinlein, Azimov, Clarke.) I noticed that the credits listed were 99% in Japanese, the animation was pretty amazing and the movie was about 20 minutes too long.

The detailed animation on the humans, down to their beard stubble, was impressive. However their actions were perceptively slower than reality for some motions - I think it may have been a new Azimov robot rule: animated humans must have a tell-tale non-human characteristic, or else....... The plot line was classic story telling; conflicted start, girl-boy, a mentor, good-guys, a real bad guy, a challenging journey, multiple crises and finally an anti-climatic crisis.

Apparently a company that does video games produced this film. It had that flavor. I got a real kick out of the logo for SQUARE FILMS. It was a rectangle.