Metropolis [videorecording] / Container title: Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. , Japan. - Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002] - 1 videodisc (109 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (digital ; 3 in.)

Based on the comic by Osamu Tezuka. Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Run time: approx. 109 min.

Disc 1. [Feature film], theatrical trailers, animated menus, scene selections -- disc 2. Animax special: The making of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (33 min.), exclusive filmmaker interviews (8 min.), multi-angle animation comparisons, history of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis comic book, biographies of Osamu Tezuka and Rintaro, conceptual art gallery.

Director of photography, Hitoshi Yamaguchi ; character design/animation supervisor, Yasuhiro Nagura ; art director/CGI art director, Shuichi Hirata ; music, Toshiyuki Honda. Director of photography, Hitoshi Yamaguchi ; character design/animation supervisor, Yasuhiro Nagura ; art director/CGI art director, Shuichi Hirata ; music, Toshiyuki Honda.

Voice cast: Yuka Imoto (Tima), Kei Kobayashi (Kenichi), Kohki Okada (Rock), Taro Ishida (Duke Red).

"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"--Container.

Rated PG-13 for violence and images of destruction.


DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.


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

076788180X 9780767881807

043396077966

07796 Columbia TriStar


Robots--Drama.
Metropolis (Imaginary place)--Drama.
Feature films--Japan.
Animated films--Japan.
Science fiction films--Japan.
Science fiction films.


Science fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Animated films.

PN1995.9.A53 / M48 2002

791.43/72