100/ 100
Finished Airing
Movie PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Metropolis
Metropolis · 2001
A detective and an android search for human warmth.
StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSpring 2001
StudioMadhouse
SourceManga
Story
Synopsis
Directed by Rintaro and written by Katsuhiro Otomo, this dazzling dieselpunk adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's manga is set in the colossal multi-tiered industrial city of Metropolis. Japanese private detective Shunsaku Ban and his young nephew Kenichi arrive in the city to track down rogue scientist Dr. Laughton, who is secretly hired by the totalitarian plutocrat Duke Red to build Tima, a supreme gynoid android resembling Red's deceased daughter. When Duke Red's fanatical anti-robot adopted son Rock burns the laboratory to destroy Tima, Kenichi rescues the amnesiac gynoid girl, fleeing into the impoverished subterranean slums.
⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Kenichi and Tima form a tender bond as Tima struggles to understand human emotions, but Duke Red captures her to install her atop the Ziggurat, a massive planetary weather-control weapon. Rock shoots Tima, exposing her mechanical circuits and driving her into berserk existential fury. Tima connects to the Ziggurat mainframe, commanding Metropolis's automated robots to wage war against humanity. As the colossal skyscraper crumbles, Kenichi attempts to rescue Tima from the ledge, but her hand slips, falling into the flames while asking if she is human. Kenichi stays behind to rebuild Metropolis.
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1052nd Key Animation1
ADR Director2
Animation Check1
Animation Director2
Art Director2
Assistant Animation Director2
Assistant Director1
Associate Producer3
Background Art4
Character Design1
Chief Animation Director1
Color Setting1
Director1
Director of Photography1
Executive Producer4
In-Between Animation15
Inserted Song Performance1
Key Animation7
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HakiPoints
77
- Conquers 67% · 2 reviews
- Hero's Choice 0% · 0 reviews
- Average 33% · 1 review
- Skippable 0% · 0 reviews
90/ 100
UK Anime Network
Smellyone
Brilliant, artistic, political and deep. Sadly it should have been aimed more squarely at one audience.
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Empire
Patrick Peters
Far from being a complete film it's nods to a host of films, from Dr. Zhivago to Blade Runner
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1 win · 0 nominations · 1 organization
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