METROPOLIS 1949
Metropolis, also known as Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis or Robotic Angel is a Japanese manga by Osamu Tezuka published in 1949. It has some parallels to fritz lang’s metropolis (1927), though Tezuka stated that he had only seen a single still image of the movie in a magazine at the time of creating his manga.
Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka has often been called the Walt Disney of Japan and the creator Astro Boy
METROPOLIS 2001
An animated adaptation was released in 2001. It is based upon Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga. The film was directed by Rintaro, written by Otomo Katsuhiro, and produced by Madhouse.
The film is set in A future society, where humans and robots co-exist. Amidst the chaos created by anti-robot factions, detective Shunsaku Ban and his sidekick Ken-ichi are searching for rebel scientist Dr. Laughton, to arrest him and seize his latest creation, a beautiful young girl named Tima. When they locate them, Shunsaku soon realizes that the eccentric scientist is protected by a powerful man (duke red) and his fierce desire to reclaim a tragic figure from his past and therefore is beyond their reach.
OTOMO KATSUSHIRO
The screenplay for Metropolis the anime was written by Otomo Katsuhiro, famed director of the now legendary Akira (1988).
METROPOLIS (2001) PARALLELS
As with his Astro Boy story, Tezuka's focus in Metropolis is on the struggle to find one’s authentic identity. In this sense, Metropolis has much in common with Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Steven Spielberg's A.I.
