Patlabor: The Movie (1989) Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban (original title)

Director:

Mamoru Oshii

Writers:

Kazunori Itô (writer)
Masami Yûki (comic)

Release Date:

15 July 1989 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

A mysterious suicide and strange robot malfunctions are clues to a devastating sabotage plot that Special Vehicle Unit 2 must stop.

Plot Keywords:

Robot | Suicide | Police | Sabotage | Giant Robot

Cast

Toshio Furukawa	...	Asuma Shinohara (voice)
Mîna Tominaga	...	Noa Izumi (voice)
Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi	...	Kiichi Gotoh (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	Shinobu Nagumo (voice)
Yô Inoue	...	Kanuka Clancy (voice)
Michihiro Ikemizu	...	Isao Ohta (voice)
Issei Futamata	...	Mikiyasu Shinshi (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shigeru Chiba	...	Shigeo Shiba (voice)
William Dufris	...	Kataoka (voice: English version) (as William Dufries)
Lisa Enochs	...	Kanuka Clancy (voice: English version)
Doug Erholtz	...	Asuma Shinohara (voice: English version)
Blain Fairman	...	Sakaki (voice: English version) (as Blair Fairman)
Don Fellows	...	Jitsuyama (voice: English version)
Michael Fitzpatrick	...	Hiromi (voice: English version)
Briony Glassco	...	Noa (voice: English version)
Edward Glen	...	Shige (voice: English version)
Daisuke Gôri	...	Hiromi Yamazaki (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara	...	Weather forecaster (voice)
Megan Hollingshead	...	Shinobu Nagumo (voice: English version) (as Karen Thompson)
Tamsin Hollo	...	Kanuka (voice: English version)
Sharon Holm	...	Shinobu Nagumo (voice: English version)
David Jarvis	...	Asuma (voice: English version)
Ron Lepaz	...	Shinsi (voice: English version)
Joey Lotsko	...	Mikiyasu Shinshi (voice: English version)
Mac MacDonald	...	Matsui (English version) (voice: English version)
Peter Marinker	...	Kiichi Goto (voice: English version)
Martin McDougall	...	Ota (voice: English version)
C.J. Mills	...	Yamazaki (voice: English version)
Tomomichi Nishimura	...	Detective Matsui (voice)
Liam O'Brien	...	Detective Kataoka
Shinji Ogawa	...	Fukushima (voice)
Sam Riegel	...	Isao Oota Noa Izumi (voice: English version) (as Sam Regal)
William Roberts	...	Fukushima (voice: English version) (as Bill Roberts)
Osamu Saka	...	Seitaro Sakaki (voice)
Roger Craig Smith	...	Keiichi Gotoh (voice: English version) (as Roger C. Smith)
Julie Ann Taylor	...	Noa Izumi (voice: English version)

Directed by
Mamoru Oshii

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kazunori Itô		writer
Masami Yûki		comic

Produced by
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	....	line producer
Makoto Kubo	....	producer
Taro Maki	....	producer
Shin Unozawa	....	producer

Original Music by
Kenji Kawai

Cinematography by
Mitsunobu Yoshida

Film Editing by
Kumi Hiishi
Sachiko Miki
Seiji Morita
Masaki Sakamoto		(as Masanori Sakamoto)

Production Management
Fumitaka Ichino	....	production manager
Ryuji Minoto	....	production manager
Hisaaki Sakabe	....	production manager
Akihira Yoshida	....	production manager

Art Department
Masatsugu Arakawa	....	color designer
Mamoru Chijima	....	publicity art designer
Kyoko Daiki	....	art designer
Tokuhiro Hirashiro	....	art designer
Shuichi Hirata	....	art designer
Toru Hishiyama	....	art designer
Yoko Ichihara	....	art designer
Nobutaka Ike	....	art designer
Sayuri Ike	....	color designer
Tatsuya Kushida	....	art designer
Masahiro Mikami	....	art designer
Hiroyuki Mitsumoto	....	art designer
Yôji Nakaza	....	art designer
Hiromasa Ogura	....	art designer
Katsu Saka	....	publicity art designer
Hiroaki Satô	....	art designer
Yukihiro Shibutani	....	art designer
Kenichi Takahashi	....	art designer
Yusuke Takeda	....	art designer
Yôji Takeshige	....	art designer
Shin'ichi Tanimura	....	art designer
Reiko Yoshida	....	publicity art designer
Shin'ichi Yoshida	....	publicity art designer

Sound Department
Nobuo Ishizaki	....	recording director
Michiro Ito	....	sound effects
Clive A. Mitchinson	....	re-recording engineer: English version (as Clive Mitchison)
Mikio Mori	....	sound mix technician
Shigeharu Zanba	....	sound director

Special Effects by
Hideshi Inoue	....	special effects coordinator
Masahiro Murakami	....	special effects
Sumie Murakami	....	special effects
Noriko Sawazaki	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Shigenori Baba	....	photographer
Naoto Fujikura	....	photographer
Haruhiko Higami	....	still photographer: concept photos
Tomoyoshi Ishizuka	....	photographer
Makoto Itô	....	photographer
Shoichi Komuro	....	photographer
Masaki Kubomura	....	photographer
Akemi Maki	....	photographer
Jun Nanbu	....	photographer
Masao Onuki	....	photographer
Masakazu Roku	....	photographer
Satoshi Saito	....	photographer
Ritsuko Sato	....	photographer
Inako Shimotochitana	....	photographer
Isao Takahashi	....	photographer

Animation Department
Hisashi Abe	....	key animator
Masatsugu Arakawa	....	key animator
Keisuke Fukuda	....	key animator
Toshiharu Go	....	key animator
Takayuki Goto	....	key animator
Sakae Hamashita	....	color setter
Kenji Hayama	....	animator
Terumi Hirajima	....	animator
Harumi Honda	....	color setter
Isamu Ichimura	....	color setter
Tadakazu Iguchi	....	key animator
Genso Iki	....	animator
Hiroyuki Imai	....	animator
Ginji In	....	animator
Akiharu Ishii	....	animator
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	....	animation producer
Yutaka Izubuchi	....	mechanical designer
Yuji Katsumata	....	color setter
Toru Kawai	....	animator
Fukusu Kim	....	animator
Kazuchika Kise	....	animation director
Takahiro Kishida	....	key animator
Ayumi Koike	....	animator
Kazuya Kose	....	key animator
Teruo Makabe	....	animator
Hidenori Matsubara	....	key animator
Tetsuro Mikageike	....	animator
Yoshio Mizumura	....	key animator
Mitsunori Murata	....	key animator
Toshiharu Murata	....	key animator
Hiroharu Nagasaka	....	animator (as Kanji Nagasaka)
Yasuhiro Ohshima	....	key animator
Kazuhisa Okada	....	animator
Keisuke Okiura	....	key animator
Matsuri Okuda	....	key animator
Bunitsu Ri	....	animator
Hiromi Sakai	....	animator
Kazumi Sakashige	....	color setter
Koji Sawai	....	animation director
Masahiro Sekiguchi	....	animator
Kigo Soh	....	animator
Eiji Suganuma	....	key animator
Naohito Suzuki	....	animator
Akemi Takada	....	character designer
Kunio Takahide	....	animator
Kazunari Takeda	....	key animator
Atsushi Takeuchi	....	key animator
Atsuo Tobe	....	key animator
Miho Tomioka	....	animator
Kazuo Watanabe	....	animator
Sumio Watanabe	....	key animator
Hidetoshi Yoshida	....	key animator
Yaeko Yoshizawa	....	animator
Kumiko Yusa	....	color setter
Hiroyoshi Ôkawa	....	key animator

Music Department
Akihiro Kawada	....	musical director
Akira Kawase	....	musical director

Other crew
Michael Bakewell	....	adr director (English version)
Shôji Kawamori	....	assistant mechanical designer
Hiromi Nishibori	....	production assistant
Yoshinori Sayama	....	assistant mechanical designer

Thanks
Chiesuke Kotani	....	thanks: captain of the Nawada ship
Tsukasa Torisaka	....	thanks: for the details about Tokyo

Production Companies

• Headgear
• Studio DEEN
• Sunrise

Distributors

• Central Park Media Corporation (I) (II) (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Manga (????) (France) (DVD)
• Panorama Distributions (2010) (Hong Kong) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Teletoon

Special Effects

• Capital FX
• Hyodo Films
• IKIF (3D computer graphics)
• Maki Pro (titles)
• Televison Technica (3D computer graphics)

Other Companies

• Dainippon Printing Co  thanks
• E & M Planning Center  sound effects
• Gokuto Continental  technical cooperation
• Hiroshi Sakine Office  publicity artists
• I.G Tatsunoko  animation production support
• Kodak Japan  film stock
• Omnibus Promotion  sound production
• Shochiku Eizo Company  liaison room
• Studio Cats  
• Studio Dean  animation production
• Studio Swing  inbetween animation
• Teruhisha Designers  publicity artists
• Tokyo TV Center  sound post-production
• Warner-Pioneer  music production
• Weekly Shonen Sunday Editing Division  thanks

Also Known As:

"Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban" - Japan (original title)
"Patlabor 1" - USA (imdb display title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English | German

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Certification:

Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | Finland:K-8 | Italy:T (video rating) | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Canada:G (TV rating)

Company:

Headgear

Trivia:

(at around 1h 25 mins) Behind Shinohara in the background, under his hand, the screen says "OMG".

Movie Connections:

Follows Mobile Police Patlabor (1988) (V)

STRENGTH LIES IN ITS ORIGINAL AND COMPLEX STORY

I have a small collection of anime which is growing exponentially now, thanks in part to my renewed interest in the genre after viewing this film. What separates this from many anime is its unique use of the Mecha or "Labors" in its plot, instead of just the same robot battle fair that we've all seen. The movie does not center around action but around the actual story and the characters as they work together (and sometimes against each other) to solve the big mystery in time to stop a terrible threat to Tokyo and possibly the entire world. Great film. I am going to buy the second one this week; I hear it is even better.