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Summary:

In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life-- and the fate of the universe-- is dangerously at stake.

Table of Contents:

• Disc 1. Movie; theatrical trailers; animated menus; scene selections
• Disc 2. Animax special: The making of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis; exclusive filmmaker interviews; multi-angle animation comparisons; history of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis comic book; biography of Osamu Tezuka and Rintaro; conceptual art gallery.

Contributors:

Rin, Tarō, 1941-

Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954-

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989

Honda, Toshiyuki, 1957-

Tri-Star Pictures

Metropolis Committee

Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Languages:

Japanese
English
French
Chinese
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish
Thai

Language Notes:

In Japanese. Includes English and French dubbed versions and subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai.

Main Work:

Metoroporisu (Motion picture)

Alternate Titles:

Container title: Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis

Subjects:

Japanese language films

Genres:

Motion pictures

Anime

Animated films

Feature films

Feature films — Japan

Film adaptations

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Foreign language films

System Details:

DVD, Dolby digital.

Production Credits:

Screenplay, Katsuhiro Otomo ; music, Toshiyuki Honda.

General Notes:

Based on the comic book by Osamu Tezuka.

Audience:

Rated-PG.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (109 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (digital ; 3 in.).

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

MET 2001 DVD

ISBNs:

076788180X

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 043396077966
Publisher Number, Columbia TriStar: 07796

OCLC Numbers:

1052995168
49642759 [Invalid]