Flying ghost ship

Off the coast of Japan, ships are mysteriously dying. Surviving witnesses say that a ghost ship , an old, dilapidated frigate , on board of which a man in the form of a captain with a skull instead of his face was seen before the disaster, was seen ...

One day, 13-year-old Hayato Arashiyama with his parents and dog Jack ride on a boat. Father Hayato does not like the fact that his son drinks the carbonated drink Boa-Jyus, which produces the giant concern Kuroshio, which has many industries, although he himself works as an engineer at one of the shipyards belonging to Kuroshio. At some point, they notice that a car is flying in a ditch and turning over on a coastal road; Hayato and his father rush to the accident site, sending the mother to the city for help. In the car, the owner of the concern, Mr. Kuroshio, and his wife are discovered. The thunderstorm begins, Father Hayato offers to wait it out in an abandoned mansion nearby. There, Hayato and Mrs. Kuroshio encounter the very same man in the form of a captain and a skull instead of a face. Mrs. recognizes him - he appeared on the road in front of the car, provoking an accident. When everyone gathers in the hall of the mansion, the captain reappears, this time in the air outside the window. The captain says that he is the owner of this house; 10 years ago he was treacherously murdered (poisoned), and his wife and child were lured onto the ship, set on fire and sank, giving everything as an accident. The killer did not bear the punishment, and now the ghost ship will sink ships until the captain takes revenge on the killer. At that moment, police and officials led by the head of defense Khaniva appear in the house, and the ghost captain disappears.

A few days later, Tokyo was attacked by a giant Golem Destroyer Robot ^[4] , who declared himself the “messenger of the Ghost Ship”. The robot inflicts tremendous damage; neither tanks, nor missiles, nor aircraft firing can damage it. Hayato's mother dies under the rubble of their home, and his father later dies in the hospital, but before he dies, Hayato is not their son, confessed: 10 years ago Arashiyama found him tied to a blackboard by the sea. On himself he had only a medallion with a photo of his parents. Having grieved about his parents, Hayato seeks a meeting with Kuroshio and demands the possibility of participating in the destruction of the Golem and the Ghost Ship, but the head of the concern laughs at him. During a conversation on TV, they show a report in which the ghost ship unexpectedly engages in a battle with the Golem and drowns it in the air above the Tokyo Bay . It becomes obvious that the Golem is not a messenger of the Ghost Ship at all. Kuroshio leaves on business and, left to himself, Hayato accidentally discovers a secret passage in the house, through which he goes to an underground base, where there is a lot of military equipment, and is surprised to find that there is repairing the Golem. He then finds a meeting room, where he overhears the Kuroshio meeting with board members and government officials and makes sure that the Kuroshio concern created the Golem itself and let it go to Tokyo to profit from subsequent orders for the production of weapons, the restoration of destroyed buildings and much more. Golem for the envoy of the Ghost Ship was given by the head of defense Khaniwa himself, but since the concern was defeated with him, the commander was no longer needed and Kuroshio kills him, throwing him into the ocean. Hayato also finds out that Kuroshio is not the main concern of the concern - above him stands their certain patron whom they call Boa (the drink “Boa-Dzhyus”, annoyingly advertised everywhere, belongs to him).

Hayato runs to the police, trying to talk about what he saw on the street, but they always laugh at him. In his presence, the police started talking about the fact that lately there have been many cases of the mysterious disappearance of people, of whom only one dress remained. Later, on the street, Hayato sees a man, who has drunk the Boa-Juis, falls backwards, writhing in convulsions, and then his body dissolves. The people of Kuroshio, having discovered Hayato, forcefully take him to the television studio. It turns out that Kuroshio was impressed by Hayato's desire to avenge the death of his parents, and he decided to advertise himself at the expense of the boy, giving him the opportunity to speak to an audience. Hayato exposes Kuroshio to the entire studio, mentioning Boa in passing. The broadcast of his speech was interrupted by an advertisement for Boa-Djus, and Hayato himself was taken out of the studio by force, but then a large-scale attack of giant robots emerging from the sea, looking like crabs and centipedes, began in Tokyo. One of the crabs reports that they are the messengers of Boa, who is furious that Kuroshio, having fired the Golem, failed to destroy the Ghost Ship, and now also allowed the leak of information about Boa. Having said this, the crab sprays it with a liquid that has the properties of Boa-Juus ^[5] and Kuroshio dissolves. Hayato and Jack are driven by one of the crabs onto the roof of a skyscraper and eventually fall from there, but fall into the energy beam emanating from the Ghost Ship floating in the air; He pulls them aboard, where Hayato appears before the captain.

The captain reveals to him that the ships he sunk belonged to the Kuroshio concern and transported weapons from Japan to other countries, and Kuroshio himself is only one of the pawns in someone else's game: people who pretend to be benefactors like Kuroshio are led by a monster Boa, who wants to subjugate the whole world. Boa itself is located on the underwater base and, presumably, it was created by humans. The captain demonstrates that he is actually a man: he managed to survive 10 years ago, he simply put on a mask at one time to hide burns on his face, and then got used to it. Then he shows Hayato the internal structure of the ship, which turns out to be the latest miracle of technology: it has an atomic reactor , an anti-gravity engine, as well as rocket armament, laser and magnetic guns. When the captain shows Hayato the navigational wheelhouse ^[6] , the boy begins to suffer a poisoning attack by Boa-Dzyus ^[7] . Although he has time to pump out, but at the time of the attack, Hayato, falling on the dashboard , accidentally turns off the radar wave absorption installation, which is why Boa aircraft, which are armed with laser cannons, attack the ship and fire at it. The ship falls into the sea and goes to the bottom; although the seal is not broken, antigravity is disabled.

When Hayato comes to his senses, it turns out that only four survived on board: Hayato himself, the captain, the ship's doctor, and one of the crew members are the same age as Hayato, Ruriko ^[8] . The captain is a bit traumatized and incapable. Here, for the first time, Hayato sees him without a mask and, having looked at the photo, about which the dying Arashiyama had recently told him, he was surprised to recognize in him his own father. The captain, waking up and looking at the photo, also recognizes Hayato, saying that he himself barely managed to save Hayato, and his mother, unfortunately, was killed. Ruriko tells Hayato that he can control the ship and invites him to attack the Boa base: since the rocket launcher does not work, the ship must ram the fortress, then its nuclear reactor will explode, and with it the boa fortress. Hayato doesn’t really approve of such a plan, because, based on the acts of Kuroshio, he believes that Boa is a product of human greed, and even if it is destroyed, people like Kuroshio will create another Boa. But then he sees the foster mother's shoe, which Jack carries in his bag, and accepts Ruriko's offer. At the same time, it shows how an empty tank drives around the streets of Tokyo, filled with robots, because all the soldiers inside it disappeared from Boa-Dzhyus.

On the way to the fortress of Boa, the ship takes damage from underwater mines, a giant robot octopus and the external defense of the base of the Boa itself, the ship manages to sail inside the defensive perimeter, preparing to enter the base through the main gateway, which is about to close. At the very last moment, the captain comes to the wheelhouse and asks Hayato to immediately catapult their compartment, which he does. The ship swims inside the base and explodes there, at the same time, crabs in the streets of the city are cut off and fall from buildings. For a brief moment, Boa himself comes out of the base (a certain mollusk-shaped creature of gigantic proportions), which then hides in its depths, leaving its fate unknown.

The captain returns to his abandoned house. Hayato and Ruriko go sailing in Tokyo Bay on a sailing yacht. Jack drops the bag into the water and it is gnawed by a shark. The frustrated dog sees that he has lost all its contents, but the children promise to buy him a new one.

• Script writers: Hiroshi Ikeda, Masaki Tsuji
• Director: Hiroshi Ikeda
• Animation Director: Yoichi Kotabe
• Artists: Reiko Okuyama , Tadao Kikuchi
• Artists: Hayao Miyazaki , Isamu Tsuchida
• Multipliers: Noboru Sego , Takanobu Usuda , Takao Kurosawa , Koichi Tsunoda
• Operator: Yukio Katayama
• Composer: Takao Onozaki
• Producer: Hiroshi Okawa

Dubbing (Soyuzmultfilm, 1969)

• Dubbing director: M. Miroshkina
• Sound engineer: B. Filchikov
• Russian text: Z. Tselikovskaya
• Editor: T. Paporova

Dubbing (Resuscitation)

• Russian text: A. Lapshin
• Sound engineers: I. Isaikin, A. Filchenko
• Dubbing director: A. Filchenko

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• Ghost Ship on BCDB (Eng.)