Metropolis

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	Yuka Imoto	Tima
	Kei Kobayashi	Kenichi
	Kôki Okada	Rock
	Taro Ishida	Duke Red
	Kosei Tomita	Hige-Oyaji
	Norio Wakamoto	Pero
	Junpei Takiguchi	Dr. Laughton
	Takeshi Aono	Ponkotz
	Masaru Ikeda	President Boon
	Shun Yashiro	Notarlin
	Toshio Furukawa	Skunk
	Shigeru Chiba	Lamp
	Masashi Ebara	Ham Egg
	Takaya Hashi	Lyon
	Norihiro Inoue	Atlas
	Rikako Aikawa	Fifi
	Tomohisa Asô
	Michael Shitanda
	Takeshi Sasaki
	Shigeru Shibuya
	Tomoyuki Shimura
	Tomokazu Sugita
	Ken'ichi Suzumura
	Keiichi Sonobe
	Susumu Chiba

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Director	Rintaro
Writer	Osamu Tezuka, Katsuhiro Otomo, Marc Handler, Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
Producer	Tadamichi Abe, Masamichi Fujiwara, Hisanori Hiranuma, Haruyo Kanesaku, Kazumi Kawashiro, Shinji Komori, Masao Maruyama, Yutaka Maseba, Takayuki Matsutani, Kazue Motodate, Ken Munekata, Fumio Nagase, Peter Nelson, Masamitu Onodera, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Tôru Shiohara, Tsutomu Takano, Masao Takiyama, Akihiko Terashima, Ryôhei Tsunoda, Shigeru Watanabe, Iwao Yamaki, Takeshi Yasuda, Toshimichi Ohtsuki
Musician	Toshiyuki Honda
Photography	Hitoshi Yamaguchi

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Story Synopsis:
Based on the comic by Osamu Tezuka, Metropolis is a futuristic city populated by humans and robots. The conflict of the storyline involves tension between the cohabitants of Metropolis, but viewers are all the while immersed in director Rintaro's complex visual design. (Suzanne Hodges)


DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 DVD exhibits animé images that are very nicely rendered. The picture is sharp, and the animation can be very detailed, especially those scenes which incorporate CGI. For instance, the hotel in Chapter 3 is created with floors and walls that have marble-looking floors and walls. Other scenes can have more flat, simply animated backgrounds. Still, colors are nicely rendered, with rich hues. Minor shimmering is detected in finer details at times, and some pixelization can be found. (Suzanne Hodges)


Soundtrack:
This DVD features three 5.1 audio tracks (Japanese DTS® Digital Surround, Japanese Dolby® Digital, English Dolby Digital), which are spatially aggressive and full of dynamics. The deep bass region often is heavily loaded, making use of the sub-25 Hz frequencies in all channels with prominent engagement of the .1 LFE. The audio quality overall is quite remarkable. The soundstage is fully enlivened all around, though the surrounds do seem somewhat exaggerated and detached from the frontal image. Still, this should be downright entertaining movie sound for those who favor having all of their channels fully utilized. The split surrounds, when effectively executed, serve to fully engage the listener, as well as impart a compelling sense of atmosphere. The audio can be substantial in terms of overall volume level. Voices sound impressively natural with acceptable spatial integration effectiveness that is limited primarily by the tendency for the dialogue to seem a little forward. The Japanese DTS Digital Surround version delivers with a little more prominence in the low-end, as well as some refinement in terms of spatial rendering and midrange reproduction. The English Dolby Digital audio has a noticeable ADR character with the dialogue and is overall slightly lower in level than the Japanese version, which is at least partially attributable to the 1 dB difference in dialnorm settings. (Perry Sun)

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