Abstract:

"In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life--and the fate of the universe--is dangerously at stake"--Container. || This cutting-edge animated features combines the visions of three key creative forces from the anime and manga worlds: director Rintaro (X), screenwriter Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), and the late manga (comic book) master Osamu Tezuka, whose 1949 manga was the basis for the film. An homage to Fritz Lang's silent classic of the same name.