Director: Rintaro
Script: Katsuhiro Otomo adapted from Ozamu Tezuka's manga
Animation Director: Yasuhiro Nakura
Artistic Director: Schuichi Hirata
3D Effects Artistic Director: Tsuneo Maeda
Music: Toshiyuki Honda
Sound: Masafumi Mima
Production: Bandai Visual, Metropolis Committe
Distribution:
Columbia Tristar Films
131 avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris
Tel: 0033 1.44.40.62.30
Fax: 0033 1.44.40.60.00
Year: 2001
Screening: 2003
35 mm, Colour, 90 min
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
In Metropolis, everyone has a given place. In this huge city of future, humans and robots are living together in a strict environment. The gigantic Ziggurat skyscraper is about to be inaugurated, for the elite of society to live a golden life. The poor and the robots are condemned to living an underground life organised around a vast net in the guts of the city. While anti robots demonstrations are increasing, detective Shunsaku Ban and his assistant Kenichi are looking for Dr Laughton, a scientific rebel who has created Tina, a girl as well as a new generation robot. They find out that the scientist is under the protection of a powerful mysterious man. Besides, a group of humans belonging to the Malduk party, are attacking the robots, finding them far too present.
