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Patlabor: The Movie

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©1989 Headgear/Emotion/TFC.


[ sequel of Patlabor The Mobile Police (OAV 1/1988) ]

Related anime:
    Patlabor 2: The Movie (sequel)
      Patlabor WXIII (movie 3) (sequel)
        Mini Pato (movie) (spinoff, Parody)

Alternative title:
Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor Gekijouban (Japanese)
Patlabor - La Película (Spanish)
Patlabor 1: The Movie
Patlabor: The Mobile Police
Полиция Будущего (Russian)
پاتلابۆر (Arabic)
機動警察パトレイバー 劇場版 (Japanese)
Themes: mecha, police, real robot
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: The year is 1999 and Tokyo’s Mobile Police have a new weapon in the war on crime – advanced robots called Labors are used to combat criminals who would use the new technology for illegal means. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the destruction of Tokyo.
User Ratings: 549 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 48 votes (sub:26, dub:17, raw:2, Spa.dub:1, Fre.dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Excellent: 99 votes (sub:58, dub:34, ?:4, Fre.dub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 154 votes (sub:78, dub:60, Ita.dub:4, Fre.sub:3, Spa.dub:3, Por.dub:2, ?:1, Fre.edit.dub:1, Ita.edit.dub:1, Fre.dub:1)
 Good: 119 votes (sub:63, dub:49, Fre.sub:3, ?:2, Spa.dub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 73 votes (dub:37, sub:28, Dut.sub:2, ?:2, Spa.sub:2, Fre.sub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 32 votes (dub:16, sub:14, ?:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Not really good: 10 votes (dub:6, sub:4)
 Weak: 12 votes (dub:7, sub:3, ?:1, Ger.dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1013 users, rank: #606
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.488 (Good+.48), std. dev.: 1.6078, rank: #950
Weighted mean: 7.429 (Good+.42), rank: #903 (seen all: 7.46 / seen some: 5.64 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.431 (Good+.43), rank: #696
Running time: 99 minutes
Vintage: 1989-07-15
Premiere date:
1989-07-15 (Japan)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 4
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Related reviews:
    Patlabor: The Movie DVD
    Patlabor Movie 1 DVD

Related releases:
    Patlabor 1: The Movie (DVD) 2000-07-25
    Patlabor : The Movie - DVD Collector's Limited Edition Set (DVD) 2006-04-25 (from $60.99)
    Patlabor : The Movie (DVD 1) 2006-04-25 (from $20.40)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Screenplay: Kazunori Ito

Music: Kenji Kawai

Character Design: Akemi Takada

Art:
Hiroaki Sato
Hiromasa Ogura
Hiroyuki Mitsumoto
Kenichi Takahashi
Kyoko Daiki
Masahiro Mikami
Nobutaka Ike
Shinichi Tanimura
Shuichi Hirata
Tatsuya Kushida
Tokuhiro Hirashiro
Tooru Hishiyama
Yôji Nakaza
Yoko Icihara
Youji Takeshige
Yukihiro Shibutani
Yusuke Takeda

Animation director:
Kazuchika Kise
Koji Sawai

Mechanical design: Yutaka Izubuchi

Sound director: Shigeharu Zanba

Director of Photography: Mitsunobu Yoshida

Producer:
Makoto Kubo
Motoko Kubo
Shin Unozawa
Taro Maki

Animation:
Akiharu Ishii
Atsuo Tobe (Cels)
Atsushi Takeuchi (Cels)
Ayumi Koike
Bunitsu Ri
Chuuichi Iguchi (Cels)
Eiji Suganuma (Cels)
Fukusu Kim
Genso Iki
Ginji In
Hidenori Matsubara (Cels)
Hidetoshi Yoshida (Cels)
Hiromi Sakai
Hiroyoshi Ohkawa (Cels)
Hiroyuki Imai
Hisashi Abe (Cels)
Kanji Nagasaka
Kazuhisa Okada
Kazunari Takeda (Cels)
Kazuo Watanabe
Kazuya Kose (Cels)
Keisuke Fukuda (Cels)
Keisuke Okiura (Cels)
Kenji Hayama
Kigo Soh
Kunio Takahide
Masahiro Sekiguchi
Masatsugu Arakawa (Cels)
Matsuri Okuda (Cels)
Miho Tomioka
Mitsunori Murata (Cels)
Naohito Suzuki
Sumio Watanabe (Cels)
Takashiro Kishida (Cels)
Takayuki Goto (Cels)
Terumi Hirajima
Teruo Makabe
Tetsuro Mikageike
Toru Kawai
Toshiharu Go (Cels)
Toshiharu Murata (Cels)
Yaeko Yoshizawa
Yasuhiro Oshima (Cels)
Yosino Mizumura (Cels)

Animation Check:
Ichimatsu Kikuchi
Junco Nishimura
Kazuhisa Takeda
Naoyuki Ozawa
Takehiko Abe

Animation producer: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa

Assistant Recording Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

Background Art: Shuichi Hirata

Color design:
Masatsugu Arakawa
Sayuri Ike

Concept: Masami Yuuki

Concept Photo: Haruhiko Higami

Coordination: Hideshi Inoue

Editing:
Kumi Hiishi
Masaki Sakamoto
Sachiko Miki
Seiji Morita

Effects: Michihiro Ito

Layout:
Kiyomi Tanaka
Takashi Watanabe

Mechanical Design Cooperation:
Shoji Kawamori
Yoshinori Sayama

Music Director:
Akihiro Kawada
Akira Kawase

Photography:
Akemi Maki
Inako Shimotochitana
Isao Takahashi
Jun Nanbu
Makoto Ito
Masakazu Roku
Masaki Kubomura
Masao Onuki
Naoto Fujikura
Ritsuko Sato
Satoshi Saito
Shigenori Baba
Shoichi Komuro
Tomoyoshi Ishizuka

Production Assistant: Hiromi Nishibori

Production manager:
Akihir Yoshida
Fumitaka Ichino
Hisaaki Sakabe
Ryuji Mimoto

Recording Director: Nobuo Ishizaki

Special Effects:
Masahiro Murakami
Sumie Murakami

Sweetening:
Akemi Koda
Biai Son
Eiran Go
Eishuku Ri
Inki Haku
Jinshku Ri
Keiai Ri
Keiki Sui
Ryo Shunshi
Ryuuta Nishimura
Seigen Den
Shinko Kaku
Shogen Ryu
Shoki Ko
Shuretsu Ri
Shusho Shin
Yasuko Nakamura

Sweetening Check:
Harumi Honda
Isamu Ichimura
Kazumi Sakashige
Kumiko Yusa
Sakae Hamashita
Yuji Katsumata

Title Design: Teruhisa Tajima

 

Miina Tominaga as Noa Izumi

Daisuke Gouri as Hiromi Yamazaki

Issei Futamata as Mikiyasu Shinshi

Kouji Tsujitani as Kataoka

Michihiro Ikemizu as Isao Ohta

Osamu Saka as Seitaro Sakaki

Ryunosuke Ohbayashi as Kiichi Goto

Shigeru Chiba as Shiba Shigeo

Tomomichi Nishimura as Detective Matsui

Toshio Furukawa as Asuma Shinohara

Yoshiko Sakakibara as Shinobu Nagumo

You Inoue as Kanuka Clancy

Fumihiko Tachiki as Occhan

Kiyoyuki Yanada as Pilot

Mahito Tsujimura as Jitsuyama

Masamichi Sato as Engineer

Masashi Sugawara as Metropolitan Police Management

Megumi Hayashibara as
Babylon Project TV commercial announcer
Weather Forecaster

Shinji Ogawa as Fukushima

Takahiro Hirai as Commander

Takehito Koyasu as Engineer

Tomohiro Nishimura as Policeman

Toshihiko Kojima as Manager Kaiho

Toshihiko Nakajima as Announcer

Japanese companies 

Animation Production:
Aubeck
F.A.I. International
Group Donguri
Madhouse Studios
Nakamura Production
Office Next To One
Studio DEEN
Studio Swing

Animation Production Cooperation: I & G Tatsunoko

Backgrounds: Ishigaki Production

Broadcaster: Bandai Channel

Computer Graphics:
IKIF+
Television Technica Corp.

Distributor:
Bandai Visual
Shochiku, Co. Ltd.

Editing: Morita Editing Room

Effects: E & M Planning Center

Film Developing: Imagica

Film Processing:
Maki Pro
Trans Arts Co.

Music Production: Warner Pioneer Corp.

Photography: T Nishimura

Planning: HEADGEAR

Production:
Bandai Co., Ltd.
HEADGEAR
Studio CATS
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation

Production Studio: Production I.G

Recording Production: Omnibus Promotion

Recording Studio: Tokyo Television Center

Sweetening:
F.A.I. International
Yaegrina Production

Title Production:
Capital Z
Hyodo Film

English cast 
English staff 

Dubbing Director: Michael Bakewell

Translation: Dan Kanemitsu (Bandai Visual USA)

Executive producer: Laurence Guinness

Casting Director: Jill Wilmot

Dubbing Mixer: Richard King

Re-Recording Engineer: Clive Mitchison

Script Adaptation: George Roubicek

Subtitle Timing: David Fleming (Bandai Visual USA)

Voice Direction: Wendee Lee (Bandai Visual USA)

Briony Glassco as Noa Izumi

Julie Ann Taylor as Noa Izumi (Bandai Visual USA)

Bill Dufries as Kataoka

Blair Fairman as Seitaro Sakaki

C.J. Mills as Hiromi Yamazaki (Bandai Visual USA dub)

David Jarvis as Asuma Shinohara

Doug Erholtz as Asuma Shinohara (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Joey Lotsko as Mikiyasu Shinshi (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Karen Thompson as Shinobu Nagumo (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Lisa Enochs as Kanuka Clancy (Bandai Visual USA)

Martin McDougall as Isao Ota

Michael Fitzpatrick as Hiromi Yamazaki

Peter Doyle as Shigeo Shiba (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Peter Marinker as Kiichi Goto

Roger C. Smith as Kiichi Gotoh (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Ron Lepaz as Mikiyasu Shinshi

Sam Regal as Isao Oota (Bandai Visual USA)

Sharon Holm as Shinobu Nagumo

Tamsin Hollo as Kanuka Clancy

Bill Roberts as Fukushima

C.J. Mills as Yamazaki (Bandai Visual USA)

Don Fellows as Jitsuyama

Doug Erholtz as Asuma (Bandai Visual USA)

Edward Glen as Shigo

George C. Cole as
Detective Matsui (Bandai Visual USA dub)
Superintendent Kaihou (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Joey Lotsko as Shinshi (Bandai Visual USA)

John Smallberries as Chief Fukushima (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Karen Thompson as Nagumo (Bandai Visual USA)

Liam O'Brien as Detective Kataoka (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Mac McDougall as Matsui

Milton Lawrence as Jitsuyama (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Roger C. Smith as Gotoh (Bandai Visual USA)

Taylor Henry as Seitoru Sakaki (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Johnny Yong Bosch

Joseph Ransom (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Terrence Stone (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Tom Patrick (Bandai Visual USA dub)

Wendee Lee (Bandai Visual USA dub)

English companies 

ADR Production:
Elastic Media Corporation (Bandai Visual USA)
Memory Tech (Bandai Visual USA)

Broadcaster:
Encore Action
Teletoon (Canada)

Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
Manga Entertainment (UK) (UK)

DVD Authoring: Rainmaker Digital Pictures

DVD Mastering: Q-Tec (Bandai Visual USA)

Licensed by:
Bandai Visual USA
Manga Entertainment (Expired)

Recording Studio: Eloy Productions (Bandai Visual USA)

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Patrick Borg

Adaptation: Philippe Girard

 

Virginie Ledieu as Noah Izumi

Anne Jolivet as
Kanuka
Shinobu

Guy Chapelier as
Goto
Sakaki

Lionel Henry as Asuma Shinohara

Nicolas Sempé as Otta

Pascal Renwick as Shinshi

French companies 

Distributor:
Manga Video
Pathé

Dubbing: S.T.A.R.T.


Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Fox Kids Latin America

TV Distribution: Selecta Visión

Spanish cast 
(none)
Italian staff 
Italian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Shin Vision

Italian cast 
(none)

German cast 
German staff 
(none)

Markus Pfeiffer as Asuma Shinohara

Karl-Heinz Tafel as Isao Ota

Volker Wolf as Kiichi Goto

Fabian Körner as Shigeo Shiba

Josef Tratnik as Matsui

Katja Liebing as Noa Izumi

Thomas Lang as Hiromi Yamazaki

Andreas Meese

Daniel Werner

Hans Bayer

Hans-Gerd Kilbinger

Jürg Löw

Renier Baaken

German companies 

Distributor:
Ascot (rental video)
OVA Films (2nd release)
Panini Video
Polygram Germany

Dubbing: Splendit Synchron


Arabic staff 
(none)
Arabic companies 

Broadcaster: AnimeKurd

Arabic cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 

Distirbutor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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