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Metoroporisu (2001)
Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 2000 - 2001
Running Times: 108 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: DTS Dolby Digital
SDDS
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Bandai Visual Co Ltd / Dentsu Inc / Imagica Corp
/ Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co Ltd / King Record Co Ltd / Mad House
Ltd / Madhouse Productions / Metropolis Project / Sony Pictures Television
(Japan) / Tezuka Production Company Ltd / Toho Company Ltd
Executives in Charge of Production: Ryohei Tsunoda, Ken Munekata, Hisanori
Hiranumi, Toru Shiobara, Tadamichi Abe, Fumio Nagase, Takayuki Matsutani,
Akihiko Terajima
SCRIPT
Script: Katsuhiro
Otomo
Project Initiated By: Rintaro, Masao Maruyama, Shigeru Watanabe
English Language Version Script: Marc Handler
Comic: Osamu Tezuka
DIRECTION
Director: Rintaro
Assistant Director / Composite Director: Naoko Kusumi
ANIMATION
Animation Studio: Mad House
Animation Producers: Masao Maruyama, Iwao Yamaki
Character Designer / Chief Key Animation Supervisor: Yasuhiro Nakura
Key Animation Supervisors: Shigeo Akahori, Kunihiko Sakurai,
Shigero Fujita
Assistant Key Animation Supervisors: Shigeto Tsuji, Toshio Hirata
CGI Technical Director: Tsuneo Maeda
Charater Mechanics: Seiji Tanda
Key Animators: Kazuo Komatsubara, Kumiko Kawana, Norimoto Tokura, Manabu
Ohashi, Yasushi Muraki, Masami Ozone, Tetsuro Kaku, Mahiro Ando, Takuo
Noda, Nobumasa Shinkawa, Masaharu Tada, Hiromi Niioka, Shinji Hashimoto,
Katsuya Yamada, Hiroshi Oikawa, Hitoshi Ueda, Kaichi Honma, Tstutomu
Awada, Masaaki Endo, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ei Inoue, Shinsaku Sasaki, Satoshi
Iriyoshi, Morifumi Naka, Shigeto Tsuji, Kunihiko Hamada, Masaru Kitao,
Kahoru Hirata, Hiroyuki Kasugai, Toshiya Niidome, Yasuhiro Endo, Kazuhiko
Udagawa, Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Takashi Saijou **************
MUSIC
Music: Toshiyuki Honda
Songs: Ray Charles (I Can't Stop Loving You); Joe Primrose (St James
Infirmary); Minako Obata, Toshiyuki Honda (There'll Never Be Goodbye)
Songs Performed By: Ray Charles (I Can't Stop Loving You)
Songs Arranged By: Dan Gibson (I Can't Stop Loving You)
SOUND
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
VISUAL EFFECTS
CGI Art Director: Shuichi Hirata
CGI Technical Director: Tsuneo Maeda
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director / CGI Art Director: Shuichi Hirata
VOICES
Yuka Imoto (Tima)
Kei Kobayashi (Kenichi)
Kouki Okada (Rock)
Toshio Furukawa (General)
Junpei Takeguchi (Dr Laughton)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Jamieson Price (Duke Red)
Dave Mallow (Pero)
Michael Reisz (Rock)
Brianne Siddall (Keni-chi)
Scott Weinger (Atlas)
AVAILABILITY
Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina
Video Distributor: LK-TEL
Czech Republic
Theatrical Distributor: Buena Vista International
France
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films
Italy
Theatrical Distributor: Keyfilms Roma
Japan
Theatrical Distributor: Toho Company Ltd
Video Distributor: Bandai Visual Co Ltd
Russia
DVD Distributor: DVD Service
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films de España S.A.
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Sony Pictures Entertainment / TriStar Pictures
Video Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video
DVD Distributor: Columbia / Tristar (07796)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 13
Australia
Rating: PG
Brazil
Rating: 14
Canada
Rating: 14A
Chile
Rating: 14
France
Rating: -12
Germany
Rating: 12
Japan
Rating: R
Netherlands
Rating: 12
Spain
Rating: 7
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: PG-13 (for violence and images of destruction)
AWARDS
2001
Fant-Asia Film Festival, Canada
Best Animation Film (Tarô Rin) - runner-up
TIMELINE
2001
November
15: Sweden - shown at the Stockholm Film Festival
2002
January
11: UK - theatrical release
25: USA - theatrical release
February
13: Belgium - theatrical release
21: Hong Kong - theatrical release
March
1: Canada - theatrical release
21: Malaysia - theatrical release
April
5: Norway - theatrical release
23: USA - DVD release (Columbia / Tristar (07796))
May
24: Spain - theatrical release
June
5: France - theatrical release
21: Italy - theatrical release
August
1: Australia - theatrical release
October
31: Germany - theatrical release
November
27: Sweden - video release
December
20: Austria - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
Welcome to Metropolis
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis - Australian
/ US DVD title
Robotic Angel - alternative English language / German
title
Metrópolis - Spanish title
Metrópolis de Osamu Tezuka - Spanish title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Metropolis (1927)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Entertainment Weekly no.649 (19 April
2002) p.52 (USA)
review (by Marc Bernardin)
KEYWORDS
androids, animation, anime, artificial humans, artificial intelligence,
assassinations, assassins, biological warfare, comic into film, detectives,
the future, military, paranoia, rebellion, robots, skyscrapers, snipers,
sunspots, super weapons, underground, underground cities
Last Updated:
28 June, 2009
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