![]() Unhappy with the Duke's popularity and influence, the president and the mayor of Metropolis try to use the revolution to overthrow Red and regain control of Metropolis. The pair encounter a group of unemployed human laborers who stage an armed revolution against Metropolis's leaders and robot workers. Learning that Tima survived the lab's destruction, Rock and his subordinates hunt them relentlessly. They grow close as Kenichi teaches Tima how to speak, both unaware that she is a robot. While Shunsaku searches for his nephew, Kenichi and Tima search for a way back up to the street level. The two fall into the sewers and are separated from Shunsaku. Meanwhile, Kenichi stumbles upon the newly activated Tima. Duke Red's plans are disrupted however when Rock learns of Tima's existence, and fearing for his father's safety, shoots Laughton and sets his laboratory ablaze.ĭiscovering the burning laboratory, Shunsaku locates the dying Laughton, who directs Shunsaku to a notebook containing his research. Laughton to secretly build a highly advanced android, modeled and named after his deceased daughter Tima, with the intention of using her as the central control unit for a powerful superweapon hidden at the top of the Ziggurat. Unbeknownst to Shunsaku, Duke Red has hired Dr. Laughton, wanted for organ trafficking and human rights violations. Meanwhile, private detective Shunsaku Ban and his young nephew/assistant Kenichi Shikishima have traveled from Japan to Metropolis to apprehend rogue scientist Dr. A wayward robot disrupts the Ziggurat's opening ceremony, prompting Duke Red's adopted son Rock, the leader of an anti-robot paramilitary organization known as the Marduks, to shoot it down. Most humans in Metropolis are unemployed and impoverished, with many blaming robots for taking their jobs.ĭuke Red, Metropolis’s unofficial ruler and wealthiest citizen, has recently completed construction of The Ziggurat, a massive skyscraper which he claims will allow mankind to extend its power across the planet. 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. The film was directed by Rintaro, written by Katsuhiro Otomo, and produced by Madhouse, with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions. Metropolis ( メトロポリス, Metoroporisu) is a 2001 Japanese animated futuristic dieselpunk drama film based upon Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga of the same name. ![]()
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