Metropolis is an anime film based on the manga of the same name by legendary manga author Osamu Tezuka. In the film, while helping his detective uncle search for a dangerous criminal, Kenichi gets ...

Let me say up front that as a 35-year-old fan of American indie and European films, Osamu Tezuka's anime film "Metropolis" -- transformed into a big screen flick by Katsuhiro Otomo ("Akira") and ...

This review originally appeared in Issue #1 of Paste Magazine in the summer of 2002, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. Metropolis’s action begins as an elderly detective and his ...

Rintaro's deliriously dense animated thriller "Metropolis" is not a remake of Fritz Lang's futuristic silent classic, but the title fits. Lang once confessed that New York's skyscraper-dominated ...

Metropolis is a visually stunning, rich, and memorable pleasure. It's contributors have brought us other classics such as Astroboy and Akira. The story takes place in the muti-leveled, fascinating, ...

“Metropolis” arrives a little late but still hot on the heels of “Princess Mononoke” and “Perfect Blue”, two successful Japanese films released in North America in the past two years. Both were ...

Based on the classic Japanese manga comic by anime godfather Osamu Tezuka, Metropolis is a tale of science versus humanity - boy meets robot-girl, robot develops emotions but will her feelings blossom ...

Back in 1949, the godfather of manga, Osamu Tezuka, published a comic-book homage to Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis. Sadly, this anime reworking owes more to Blade Runner than the original ...