The Nippon Maru appears and plays a key role most notably in the climax ending of
Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers (2008) film, where in an alternate timeline, the 150-year-old ship monument had been turned into humanity's very first faster than light capable interstellar exploratory spaceship where everyone of the main cast makes their way to visit M78 Nebula, which so happens to be the homeworld of humanity's guardian protectors, the Ultra civilization. == References ==