Metropolis

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Synonyms: Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, Robotic Angel

Japanese: メトロポリス

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: May 26, 2001

Producers: Bandai Visual, Dentsu, Kadokawa Shoten, Imagica, Tezuka Productions, TOHO, King Records

Licensors: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Studios: Madhouse

Source: Manga

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Theme: Detective

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.53¹ (scored by 44,897 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1755²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1973

Members: 107,667

Favorites: 631

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Synopsis

In the great city of Metropolis, severe community structures and prejudice dominate a world where humans and robots live together. Unrest and violence increase with each new day.

Searching for the scientist Dr. Laughton, suspected to violate human rights by trading organs, the Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive at Metropolis. In the scientist's laboratory, Kenichi discovers a girl without any memory of her past life. He decides to help her, so they run away together. His uncle follows him and penetrates the dark secrets of the city to find Duke Red, the man ruling from the shadows. Meanwhile, Kenichi desperately tries to protect the mysterious girl from the people hunting her. However, Duke Red and his adoptive son have their own deep reasons for chasing the girl. These reasons are connected to her true identity and the struggle for the domination of Metropolis...

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Imoto, Yuka
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Holmes, Rock

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Okada, Kouki
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Hige Oyaji

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Tomita, Kousei
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Shikishima, Kenichi

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Kobayashi, Kei
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Fifi

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Aikawa, Rikako
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Ham Egg

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Ebara, Masashi
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Lamp, Acetylene

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Chiba, Shigeru
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Red, Duke

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Ishida, Tarou
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Emmy

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Koyama, Mami
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Maruyama, Masao

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Maseba, Yutaka

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Rintarou

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Mima, Masafumi

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Opening Theme

"Metropolis" by Toshiyuki Honda

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Ending Theme

"There'll Never Be Goodbye" by Minako 'Mooki' Obata

Reviews

Dec 10, 2023

Bensonas

Recommended

I really enjoyed this film. End to end it kept me engaged in story whilst the animation continued to be stunning throughout.

Animation wise, this reminded me a lot of the style from Porco Rosso. Its like it has hints of Disney whilst rooted in Japanese animation. This films animation is stunning. Everything moves fluidly, the characters, I feel anyway, are nicely designed and have their own originality. As we journey through the film we are treated to variety. The environments vary in a nicely contrasting way, the above ground segments looks vibrant and full of life and the below ground environment look dull and devoid ...

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Dec 18, 2022

bergars

Mixed Feelings

I could feel those animators crack their knuckles, the blood and bones from their hands sticking out. A visual showcase of mastery like not many other animated films, sadly, I wish I could say the same for the story.

Metropolis explores a futuristic dilemma of humans being replaced by robots. As functional beings, the story of robots being better is something of a typical sci-fi element these days. The story is taken from an old manga, and it really shows. A dated protagonist with dated sidekicks, dated villains with dated motives. By dated, I don't mean to say it's inherently bad, but when adapting a story ...

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Apr 19, 2022

Ciaran_Zagami

Not Recommended

WHOOOOO BOY

The fancy CGI, the main selling point of Metropolis is terrible.
The best shots are the ones where there are no humans because all the humans look hilariously awful. Everyone is drawn like a mutant Stretch Armstrong accept for Kenichi who looks an awful lot like Astro Boy.

The story is deeply unoriginal.
The worst use of the tower of Babel myth I've ever seen, mixed in with dozens of other cliches, the Naive super weapon robot child, robots as a metaphor for classism or some other ism whatever is in vogue, at least 15 fake out deaths mostly of the same handful of characters.

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