Undersea Super Train: Marine Express

Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
The cover for the Japanese VHS release of Undersea Super Train: Marine Express from VAP video.
海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス
(Kaitei Chōtokkyū Marine Express)
GenreDrama, science fiction, fantasy
Anime television film
Directed bySatoshi Dezaki
Produced byHidehiko Takei
Satoru Yamamoto
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Music byYuji Ohno
StudioTezuka Productions
Original networkNippon Television Network
ReleasedAugust 26, 1979
Runtime91 minutes

Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス, Kaitei Chōtokkyū Marin Ekusupuresu) is an anime television film created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, Ai wa Chikyū o Suku, which roughly translates to "Love Saves the Earth". The film contained a veritable "Who's Who" of manga creator Osamu Tezuka's notable characters. Each one had an important role, and many of them had individual, intertwining stories which would overlap with the ones of others. To coincide with the central theme of the charity program, the film emphasized on the dangers of environmental destruction, and that such disasters can be overcome by banding together.

For the previous charity special in 1978, Osamu Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book. The year after, when the special was held again in 1980, Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created another film, Fumoon, based on Tezuka's manga Nextworld.