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.
"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.