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Patlabor: The Movie - 1999 Tokyo War (Laserdisc, 1995) NTSC BELL-300
Patlabor: The Movie - 1999 Tokyo War (Laserdisc, 1995) NTSC BELL-300
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Mamoru Oshii, the director of Patlabor the Movie, once described his 1989 film as pop entertainment. Any fan of Oshii, best known for Ghost in the Shell, knows that’s a huge undersell for what is an extremely complex, thoughtful film. But perhaps Oshii was referring to how Patlabor the Movie ticks a great many boxes at once.
It’s a comedy-drama featuring one of the most loveable character ensembles created in anime – not teen students, but a very unorthodox police team who spend their time off duty raising chickens and growing their own food. Patlabor the Movie is also a mystery film, twisty to the point of postmodernism, whose conclusion is a sardonic comment on the state of post-war Japan. But the film’s references are far from exclusively Japanese. For instance, the climax includes a massive homage to an Alfred Hitchcock classic that’s both funny and sinister.
It’s also a most unusual mecha anime. A decade before, Gundam had popularised the idea of the “real robot” anime, treating giant human-shaped big robots as real machines in believable contexts. Patlabor pushes that to its logical end, placing the big robots and their operators in what’s effectively present-day Tokyo, though the film’s dateline is 1999, a decade in the future when Patlabor opened.
Condition
Very good: An item that is used but still in very good condition.
Language
Japanese
Title
Patlabor - The Movie
MPN
BELL-300
Genre
Animation
UPC
4902425220741
tg42a.030124.1384563
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