Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Metropolis / Destination Films ; Kadokawa Video ; Bandai Visual presents ; Emotion ; TriStar Pictures presents a Metropolis Committee production ; producers, Masao Maruyama, Iwao Yamaki ; screenplay by Katsuhiro Otomo ; directed by Rintaro.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, California : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2002]

Description:

1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

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"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Rated PG-13 for violence and images of destruction.

Subjects:

Robots -- Drama.

Metropolis (Imaginary place) -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Science fiction films.

Animated films.

Science fiction films.

Other Author:

Maruyama, Masao, 1941- producer.

Yamaki, Iwao, producer.

Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954- screenwriter.

Rin, Tarō, 1941- director.

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989, author.

Imoto, Yuka, actor.

Kobayashi, Kei, actor.

Okada, Kohki, actor.

Ishida, Taro, actor.

Yamaguchi, Hitoshi, cinematographer.

Nagura, Yasuhir, animator.

Hirata, Shuichi, art director.

Honda, Toshiyuki, composer.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Metoroporisu.

Destination Films, production company.

Kadokawa Video (Firm), production company.

Bandai Bijuaru Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.

Emotion (Firm), production company.

Tri-Star Pictures, production company.

Metropolis Committee (Firm), production company.

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Container title: Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis

Container of (work) : Metoroporisu (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally released in 2001.

Based on the comic by Osamu Tezuka.

Director of photography, Hitoshi Yamaguchi ; character design/animation supervisor, Yasuhiro Nakura ; 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).

DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

In English or Japanese. and optional subtitles in English; closed-captioned.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

043396488021

Publisher Number:

07796

Other Number:

49642759

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

696202

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU ANIME Metropol