Japanese Anime Movies 2001
Metropolis (メトロポリス , Metoroporisu ) is a 2001 Japanese animated futurist cyberpunk drama film loosely based upon Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga of the same name. The film was directed by Rintaro, writt by Katsuhiro Otomo, and produced by Madhouse, with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions.
Humans and robots coexist in the multi-layered city of Metropolis, although robots are discriminated against and segregated to the lowest levels of the city. Most humans in Metropolis are unemployed and impoverished, with many blaming robots for taking their jobs.
Duke Red, Metropolis's unofficial ruler and wealthiest citiz, has rectly completed construction of The Ziggurat, a massive skyscraper which he claims will allow mankind to extd its power across the planet. A wayward robot disrupts the Ziggurat's oping ceremony, prompting Duke Red's adopted son Rock, the leader of an anti-robot paramilitary organization known as the Marduks, to shoot it down. Meanwhile, private detective Shunsaku Ban and his young nephew/assistant Kichi Shikishima have traveled from Japan to Metropolis to apprehd rogue scitist Dr. Laughton, wanted for organ trafficking and human rights violations. Unbeknownst to Shunsaku, Duke Red has hired Dr. Laughton to secretly build a highly advanced android, modeled and named after his deceased daughter Tima, with the inttion of using her as the ctral control unit for a powerful superweapon hidd at the top of the Ziggurat. Duke Red's plans are disrupted however wh Rock learns of Tima's existce, and fearing for his father's safety, shoots Laughton and sets his laboratory ablaze.
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Discovering the burning laboratory, Shunsaku locates the dying Laughton, who directs Shunsaku to a notebook containing his research. Meanwhile, Kichi stumbles upon the newly activated Tima. The two fall into the sewers and are separated from Shunsaku. While Shunsaku searches for his nephew, Kichi and Tima search for a way back up to the street level. They grow close as Kichi teaches Tima how to speak, both unaware that she is a robot. Learning that Tima survived the lab's destruction, Rock and his subordinates hunt them reltlessly. The pair counter a group of unemployed human laborers who stage an armed revolution against Metropolis's leaders and robot workers.
Unhappy with the Duke's popularity and influce, the presidt and the mayor of Metropolis try to use the revolution to overthrow Red and regain control of Metropolis. However, the presidt's top military commander, Geral Kusai Skunk is revealed to be one of Red's subordinates and assassinates them both. Red th imposes martial law and violtly suppresses the revolution. In the aftermath, Kichi reunites with Shunsaku, but Rock, who exposes Tima as a robot, wounds him. Red disowns Rock and removes him from command of the Marduks for attempting to kill Tima before taking her and Kichi away to the Ziggurat.
Still determined to eliminate her and regain his father's affection, Rock kidnaps and deactivates Tima, who is now confused about her idtity. Having tracked Rock, Shunsaku recovers Tima, and following instructions from Laughton's notebook, reactivates her. The two discover Kichi is being held in the Ziggurat, but Duke Red and the Marduks capture them while the pair are route. They are brought to the top of the Ziggurat, where Tima confronts Duke Red about whether she is a human or a robot. Duke Red tells her she is superhuman and destined to rule the world from her 'throne', the control system for the Ziggurat's superweapon. Disguised as one of the Ziggurat's maids, Rock shoots Tima in the shoulder, exposing her internal circuitry, before being shot by Red's m.
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Horrified by her true idtity, Tima goes insane, causing her implanted military protocols to take control. She proceeds to physically integrate with the throne and orders a biological and nuclear attack on humanity as punishmt for abusing and discriminating against robots. While the others flee, Kichi tries to reason with Tima. Robots all across Metropolis, drawn by Tima's command, assault the Ziggurat and attack Duke Red and his forces. Not wanting robots to kill his father, Rock triggers an overload in the superweapon, killing himself and Red in a massive explosion. As the Ziggurat starts to collapse around them, Kichi finally reaches Tima and separates her from the throne. Still in a confused state, Tima tries to kill Kichi, but falls off the tower in the struggle. Out of love for her, Kichi tries to save Tima and pull her up using one of the cables still grafted to her arm. As the cable begins to fray, Tima remembers the time Kichi taught her language and asks Kichi, Who am I?, before the cable snaps and she falls. The Ziggurat collapses, destroying a large part of Metropolis.
Afterwards, Kichi searches the ruins and discovers a group of robots have salvaged some of Tima's parts in an effort to rebuild her. While Shunsaku and many other human survivors are evacuated, Kichi chooses to remain behind to help the survivors rebuild. A photograph shown during the d credits reveals Kichi oped a robot workshop, named after him and Tima.
Tezuka's original manga cters around the artificial humanoid Mitchi, who is able to fly and change sex and who is pursued by Duke Red and his Red Party who intd to use Mitchi for destructive purposes. Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kichi find Mitchi after her creator, Dr. Charles Laughton, is killed and they protect her as they search for her parts. Unlike Tima's desire to be human, the cause for Mitchi's destructive rampage in the manga's climax is the revelation that, as a robot, she has no parts.
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Wh making the original Metropolis manga, Tezuka said that the only inspiration he got from Fritz Lang's Metropolis was a still image from the film where a female robot was being born.
In addition to adopting set designs of the original film, the 2001 film has more emphasis on a strong and pervasive theme of class struggle in a dystopian, plutocratic society and expands it to examine the relationship of robots with their human masters. (This relationship was explored by Tezuka in great detail with his popular series Astro Boy.) The anime adaptation also removes many of the more fanciful elemts out of Tezuka's manga, such as a flying, gder swapping humanoid. Here, Mitchi is replaced by Tima, who is permantly female and cannot fly. In this version, Kichi is an assistant to his uncle and forms a very strong fridship with Tima ev though neither know she's a robot. Tima and Kichi seem to care for each other deeply, as se wh Tima is worried about Kichi wh he's unconscious. Kichi ev goes so far as to remove Tima from the throne in an effort to save her and not allow her to become a weapon of evil. Tima was taught language by Kichi and that she was someone unique. She also considered him her only family because he was kind to her and protected her; it seems that she loved Kichi very much. It can be assumed that Kichi fell in love with Tima, shown in many sces wh he blushes wh he sees her writing his name so she wouldn't forget him. Kichi didn't seem to care if Tima was robot or not, showing that he was willing to rescue her because of how much he cared for her. Tima only remembered Kichi wh he tried to save her because of everything he taught her. Tima's relationship with Kichi ds, however, wh Tima accepts her idtity as a robot over that of a female human, triggering a robot revolution.
Duke Red is shown to be both a cruel and evil leader and father; it is repeatedly shown that he does not care about Rock or ev consider Rock his son despite adopting him; the character Rock also deviates from the manga.
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He only sees Tima as a weapon to destroy humanity and ev considers Tima and Rock inferior to him and anyone who is loyal to him. While his real daughter (also named Tima) died, he only rebuilt her humanoid self just to use her and has no regard or affection for what she needs. He also ignores Tima's questions about her being human or not, showing that he does not care if Tima feels emotions or not.
Rock wasn't in the original manga, and according to the writer of the film, he was added to pay homage to Tezuka's scice fiction advture style of storytelling, while also adding depth to the story's background and the world around it. Rock is meant to represt humanity's dark side, and the negative emotions associated with those aspects.
He also echoes Tima's story and can be considered another side of it, as they are both neglected childr gineered by their father to be tools of war. In Rock's case however, he was cast aside and unwanted by Duke Red. Their stories ultimately converge, coming full circle wh they both lead to their father's downfall, with his legacy quite literally collapsing to the ground.
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The Shinto religion has a delineation betwe the animate and inanimate. Shinto kami can be spirits, humans, objects, or in this case, robots.
Wh making the original Metropolis manga, Tezuka said that the only inspiration he got from Fritz Lang's Metropolis was a still image from the film where a female robot was being born.
In addition to adopting set designs of the original film, the 2001 film has more emphasis on a strong and pervasive theme of class struggle in a dystopian, plutocratic society and expands it to examine the relationship of robots with their human masters. (This relationship was explored by Tezuka in great detail with his popular series Astro Boy.) The anime adaptation also removes many of the more fanciful elemts out of Tezuka's manga, such as a flying, gder swapping humanoid. Here, Mitchi is replaced by Tima, who is permantly female and cannot fly. In this version, Kichi is an assistant to his uncle and forms a very strong fridship with Tima ev though neither know she's a robot. Tima and Kichi seem to care for each other deeply, as se wh Tima is worried about Kichi wh he's unconscious. Kichi ev goes so far as to remove Tima from the throne in an effort to save her and not allow her to become a weapon of evil. Tima was taught language by Kichi and that she was someone unique. She also considered him her only family because he was kind to her and protected her; it seems that she loved Kichi very much. It can be assumed that Kichi fell in love with Tima, shown in many sces wh he blushes wh he sees her writing his name so she wouldn't forget him. Kichi didn't seem to care if Tima was robot or not, showing that he was willing to rescue her because of how much he cared for her. Tima only remembered Kichi wh he tried to save her because of everything he taught her. Tima's relationship with Kichi ds, however, wh Tima accepts her idtity as a robot over that of a female human, triggering a robot revolution.
Duke Red is shown to be both a cruel and evil leader and father; it is repeatedly shown that he does not care about Rock or ev consider Rock his son despite adopting him; the character Rock also deviates from the manga.
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He only sees Tima as a weapon to destroy humanity and ev considers Tima and Rock inferior to him and anyone who is loyal to him. While his real daughter (also named Tima) died, he only rebuilt her humanoid self just to use her and has no regard or affection for what she needs. He also ignores Tima's questions about her being human or not, showing that he does not care if Tima feels emotions or not.
Rock wasn't in the original manga, and according to the writer of the film, he was added to pay homage to Tezuka's scice fiction advture style of storytelling, while also adding depth to the story's background and the world around it. Rock is meant to represt humanity's dark side, and the negative emotions associated with those aspects.
He also echoes Tima's story and can be considered another side of it, as they are both neglected childr gineered by their father to be tools of war. In Rock's case however, he was cast aside and unwanted by Duke Red. Their stories ultimately converge, coming full circle wh they both lead to their father's downfall, with his legacy quite literally collapsing to the ground.
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The Shinto religion has a delineation betwe the animate and inanimate. Shinto kami can be spirits, humans, objects, or in this case, robots.
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