Patlabor: The Movie
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| Directed by | Mamoru Oshii |
| Produced by |
Makoto Kubo Shin Unozawa Taro Maki |
| Written by | Kazunori Itō |
| Based on |
Patlabor by Masami Yuki |
| Starring |
Miina Tominaga Toshio Furukawa Ryunosuke Ohbayashi Shigeru Chiba |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Patlabor: The Movie (機動警察パトレイバー the Movie Kidō Keisatsu Patoreibā Za Mūbī?) is a 1989 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, with an original story by Headgear. It was produced by I.G. Tatsunoko (later Production I.G.), Bandai Visual and Tohokushinsha. It is part of the Patlabor anime and manga series.
Set in 1999, Tokyo is undergoing a huge re-development program: old suburbs are being demolished and man-made islands are being constructed in Tokyo Bay under the Babylon Project. Dominating the scene is the "Ark," a huge man-made island that serves at the Project's nerve center and chief Labor manufacturing facility.
However, several of the Labors being used in Tokyo, specifically those built by Shinohara Heavy Industries - suddenly go haywire even while unattended. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's 2nd Special Vehicles Section (SV2) is assigned to help reel in the errant Labors, but only the SV2's Division II is on duty around the clock (with Division I already on training duties elsewhere). The GSDF is also preoccupied as they send their own forces to stop an HOS-equipped HAL-X-10 Labor tank prototype.
As Division II goes out on the field, team commander Captain Gotoh, Sgt Asuma Shinohara, and mechanic Shige Shiba work with police Detective Matsui to find further leads on the case. They discover that all the errant Labors, plus other Labors in the Greater Tokyo Area, were installed with the company's new Hyper Operating System (HOS) software and can be triggered by high-frequency resonance emanating from wind-struck high-rise buildings. To SV2 pilot Noa Izumi's relief, no copies of the software were installed in Division II's AV98 Ingram police Labors. They also learn that HOS programmer Eiichi Hoba - who committed suicide days before - was obsessed with the Babylon Project's Biblical references (the Ark being alluded to Noah's Ark, for example; his own name. E. Hoba--Jehovah--for another) and planted a bug in the code that would cause the Labor to malfunction. A computer simulation predicts that gale-force winds acting on the Ark could send all the Labors in Tokyo into a massive rampage, especially since the Ark's size and steel framework helps the resonance reach farther. Worse, the weather bureau announces that a typhoon is expected to hit Tokyo within two days.
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