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• Actors: Mark Hildreth, Scott McNeil, Kirby Morrow, Brad Swaile, Ted Cole
• Directors: Gordon Hunt
• Writers: Rika Takahashi
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001DCY8M
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,612 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Feudal concepts of personal honor collide with cynical realpolitik as the 49-part saga of five heroic Mobile Suit pilots unfolds against the efforts of the Romefeller Foundation to control both Earth and the orbiting Space Colonies through their puppet military entity, OZ. After agonizing over the purity of their motives, Heero and Zechs duke it out in their Mobile Suits in the wastes of Antarctica. Relena arrives and denounces their duel as futile; she also discovers Zechs is really her long-lost brother. Zechs later loses his stylized helmet, which somehow shatters his bond to OZ leader Treize Marquis. Meanwhile, the merciless Lady Une instigates an elaborate scheme to convince the leaders of the Colonies that OZ has become a benevolent organization dedicated to peace. The leaders are taken in by her assumed charms and quickly fall into line with her plan. Une turns them against the Gundam Pilots and kidnaps the five mad scientist-engineers who created the Gundams. As prisoners, they're assigned to create even more powerful suits: Mercurius and Vayeate. Pilots Heero and Trowa use different strategies to infiltrate this operation and end up in direct conflict in a cliffhanger ending. Contains these episodes: 16. "The Sorrowful Battle," 17. "Betrayed by Home, Far Away," 18. "Tallgeese Destroyed," 19. "Assault on Barge," 20. "The Lunar Base Infiltration." Rated 13 and up for occasional profanity and violence, largely restricted to machines attacking each other. --Charles Solomon

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Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 04/27/2004

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More great anime!, June 29, 2001

By	Maggy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 4 (DVD)

I'm a rabid fan of anime and Gundam Wing is a fantastic series. For those of you who are only familiar w/ the series via Cartoon Network, the DVD series is well worth the money. Most anime is edited for the US market, so you definatly get more character development on the DVD. If you like GW but were dissapointed that the series wasn't longer (as I was), there are many other Gundam series and movies. Not w/ the same characters, but in the same general universe.

The only problem that I have w/ GW is the lack of serious character development, the pilots and the others are brought only so far. This leaves the viewer having to come up w/ their own conclusions for one too many a thing. If it weren't for that one thing I'd give GW 5 instead of 4 stars.

As for Operation 4, this is pretty crucial to understanding the series, a lot of questions are ansewerd in this volume, and it sets the stage for the next leg of the series. If you don't watch this volume you're going to be lost for a while in the next leg of GW, plus you'll have some unansewred questions.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Japanimation DVD, December 7, 2000

By	X. RODRIGUEZ "okayz" (Elmont, New York United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 4 (DVD)

This dvd comes with 5 key episodes of Gundam Wing Series, episodes 16 through 20. Here, you see the Gundam pilots go into space, and you see first hand the new Doll Mobile Suits the Oz organization made. To top it all off, at the end of episode 20... we'll I really can't tell you that, can I. Even if you watch the episodes on Cartoon Network already, it's still great to watch in full length DVD, entire episodes, either in English or Japanish, uncut. This is a must have, for any Gundam fans...

4.0 out of 5 stars The real story begins, July 16, 2008

By	Strategos "The Guardian of Time" (In Space above Planet Earth) - See all my reviews

It's almost like the whole story up until now has just been a prologue. This volume starts with Zechs and Heero fighting a duel in Antarctica and takes off from there. After the intense duel Zechs allows himself to be captured and the Gundam pilots launch themselves back into space in an attempt to stop OZ, which is systematically taking over the colonies to use them as weapons factories the Gundams are insufficient to fight the new unmanned Mobile Doll mobile suits (which are faster than any human pilot could possibly be because they are computer-controlled). From here things get complicated. The breach between the power behind OZ (Roamafeller) and Treize Kushrenada, starts to make itself clear, and to please Treize, Zechs fights a huge army of enemy mobile suits rather than face a court-marshall. When he wins the battle, Zechs decides to break with OZ and his friend Treize and go into outer space to try to pursue peace there. In one of the craziest plot twists in anime history, Lady Une develops a split personality, one which desires peace in outer space and the other the same as we have seen from the beginning, a war-crazed psychopath. In outer space Duo gets captured, and Heero breaks him out. Then the engineers who built the Gundam also get captured, and heero moves to destroy both them and the mobile suits they have built for OZ. When he does, he is captured by none other than Trowa Barton, who has joined OZ (and destroyed the Gundam Deathsythe). There's lots more (Wu Fei's Gundam destroyed in his own assault, Heero's great speech to his new class on the first day of school in the Colony, Zechs meeting up with Howard, Relena's finding out that Zechs is her brother), but I guess crazy-dense plot is the biggest trademark of this series. Indeed, things are really starting to pick up.

Up until now the direction, music, animation, characerization, and plot have been good. But now they strangely all go up in quality all-at-once. Great use of musical cues, fluid, detailed, high-budget animation, great character moments (Zechs' cry of "Glory to all the colonies!" as he prepares to face OZ alone and let the Gundams escape), introduction of interesting new characters (Nicol who constantly is suspicious of Trowa and keeps trying to keep the crazed psycho Lady Une from disappearing because he loves her commanding presence and military agenda, and the slightly unhinged engineers who designed the Gundams), and fantastic new plot developments (the colonies siding with OZ and building weapons for them even as the Gundams have the colonies turn their backs on them) make this a true must-watch for any Mecha fan (and especially any Gundam fan).

I absolutely love this show, but the more I watch it the more I appreciate just how much this show improves as it continues, bringing up very interesting issues (the ethical dilemmas of unmanned weapons that kill without thought, building weapons to help your economy when they will be used to destroy other nations, how true peace can be achieved), the battles becoming more complex, and the characterization and plot growing more and more complex as the show progresses. Gundam Wing is a true classic, and it's hard not to see it if you watch the show through this point