Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1988 · 120 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Yoshiyuki Tomino

Starring

Nozomu Sasaki, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Maria Kawamura, Mitsuki Yayoi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Fuyumi Shiraishi

Set in UC 0093, the Earth Federation, having recovered from its recent defeat, forms the elite anti‑colonial unit Londo Bell to counter rising rebel threats. Meanwhile, Char Aznable emerges from self‑imposed exile, leading his new Neo‑Zeon movement and proclaiming a plan to force humanity’s mass exodus into space by triggering a catastrophic apocalypse.