Japan Synopsis
機動戦士ガンダム
“Thrust into the thick of battle, a young boy and a secret weapon are earth's last hope!”
In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has sparked a war.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Mobile Suit Gundam I. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
6 sharedMobile Suit Gundam Hathaway
★ 7.4 · Japan
5 sharedMobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
★ 6.9 · Japan
5 sharedMobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space
★ 7.6 · Japan
5 sharedMobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
★ 7.3 · Japan
5 sharedMobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
★ 6.5 · Japan
4 sharedMobile Suit Gundam F91
★ 6.4 · Japan
Other Titles From SUNRISE
Animation + Science Fiction in Japan
314 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Science Fiction genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Mobile Suit Gundam I itself).
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
★ 8.3 · 1997
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
★ 8.3 · 2021
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War
★ 8.3 · 1993
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran 2
★ 8.2 · 2019
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
★ 8.0 · 2013
Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment
★ 8.0 · 2015
The 1980–1982 Japan Window
Mobile Suit Gundam I holds position #25 of 67 Japan films in the 1980–1982 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1980s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1980s in Japan, 280 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Mobile Suit Gundam I premiered alongside 28 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 28 other Japan films in 1981.
The 546th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
58 audience reviews — more than 67% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 56th percentile among Japan films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Mobile Suit Gundam I, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- space colony · 2
- war refugees · 1
- mass evacuation · 1
- giant robot · 24
- military · 23
- edited from tv series · 20
- gundam · 20
- universal century · 9
- space war · 8
- space battle · 6
- anime · 711
- mecha · 68
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,345 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (49th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,576 of 2,532 (top 62%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | SUNRISE |
| Runtime | 2h 19m |
| Release Date | March 14, 1981 |
| IMDb | tt0159509 |