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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.