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Patlabor WXIII (movie 3)

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©2002 HEADGEAR/BANDAI VISUAL/TOHOKUSHINSHA


Alternative title:
Wasted 13: Kidō Keisatsu Patlabor (Japanese)
Wasted 13: Patlabor the Movie 3
WX3 機動警察パトレイバー (Japanese)
Полиция будущего. Монстр. (Russian)
機動警察 13號廢棄物 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: police
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: When the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.
User Ratings: 479 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:6, dub:4, raw:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Excellent: 55 votes (sub:36, dub:18, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 118 votes (sub:74, dub:40, ?:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Good: 126 votes (sub:65, dub:56, ?:3, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 80 votes (sub:39, dub:36, ?:1, others:4
2 Italian dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 37 votes (sub:19, dub:16, ?:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 22 votes (sub:12, dub:10)
 Weak: 21 votes (dub:9, sub:9, raw:1, others:2
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 866 users, rank: #1382 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.816 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.7612, rank: #4570 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 6.804 (Good−), rank: #4462 (of 9642) (seen all: 6.84 / seen some: 5.21 / won't finish: 3.62)
Bayesian estimate: 6.823 (Good−), rank: #4072 (of 7243)
Running time: 107 minutes
Vintage: 2001-12-10
Premiere date:
2001-12-10 (Japan, Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival)
2002-03-30 (Japan, theatrical release)
2003-01-10 (USA, theatrical release)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Review:
News: Show:
Patlabor 3 on SBS (Dec 11, 2006)
Jun Sumi Interview (Sep 7, 2006)
Oscar Update (Nov 20, 2003)
Kiki Showing in France (Jun 5, 2003)
Patlabor Movie News (Jan 9, 2003)
AX 2002: Pioneer Panel (Jul 11, 2002)
Japanese Links (Mar 26, 2002)
New Anime for 2002 (Dec 17, 2001)
Press Release:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII (Blu-ray) 2015-09-08 (from $31.98)
    Patlabor the Mobile Police - Complete Collection [Special Edition] (Blu-ray) 2018-11-27 (from $75.00)
    Patlabor the Mobile Police - Complete Collection [Special Edition] (Blu-ray) 2020-07-21 (from $52.84)
DVD (Region 1)
    Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII (DVD) 2003-04-08 (from $8.12)
    Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII (DVD) 2015-09-08 (from $27.05)
    Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII [Ultimate Edition] (DVD) 2003-04-08 (from $6.00)
Soundtrack
    WXIII Patlabor The Movie 3 (OST) 2003-07-01 (from $11.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Fumihiko Takayama
Screenplay: Miki Tori
Storyboard: Fumihiko Takayama
Story: Masami Yuuki
Music: Kenji Kawai
Original Character Design: Akemi Takada
Character Design: Hiroki Takagi
Animation Director: Takuji Endo
Art design: Takashi Watabe
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
Cgi Director:
Isao Satō
Taro Ibusuki
Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai
2D Painter: Sang-jae Park
Animation producer:
Akira Shinohara
Masao Maruyama
Art Cooperation:
Hiroshi Katō (Studio Biho)
Jinzaburo Kaiho (Studio Biho)
Junichi Taniguchi (Studio Biho)
Kazuo Ebisawa (Studio Biho)
Kazuo Oga (Studio Biho)
Kyoko Tanaka (Studio Biho)
Masaru Satō (Studio Biho)
Yuichiro Nakajima (Studio Biho)
Yūsuke Takeda (Studio Biho)
Assistant Animation Director: Koji Aritomi
Assistant Director: Yoriyasu Kogawa
Assistant Unit Director: Jōhei Matsuura
Background Art:
Akemi Takemura (Studio Biho)
Aki Chiba (Studio Biho)
Akira Itō (Studio Biho)
Atsuko Takigami (Studio Biho)
Aya Mitsumoto (Studio Biho)
Jun Okabe (Studio Biho)
Kaori Higashida (Studio Biho)
Kazuki Higashiji (Studio Biho)
Kazumi Enomoto (Studio Biho)
Keita Sakai (Studio Biho)
Kotomi Yagi (Studio Biho)
Kuniharu Kyoda (Studio Biho)
Masanobu Nomura (Studio Biho)
Masaru Ohta (Studio Biho)
Michie Suzuki (Studio Biho)
Michiko Morokuma (Studio Biho)
Misao Takimoto (Studio Biho)
Naoko Yamada (Studio Biho)
Riko Shinohara (Studio Biho)
Ryouka Kinoshita (Studio Biho)
Shin Okui (Studio Biho)
Shinji Takasuka (Studio Biho)
Shuichi Tsuji (Studio Biho)
Takamasa Masuki (Studio Biho)
Takashi Shigezawa (Studio Biho)
Tomoko Aomi (Studio Biho)
Tomonori Katō (Studio Biho)
Tsubasa Matsumoto (Studio Biho)
Youichi Watanabe (Studio Biho)
Yuka Hirama (Studio Biho)
CG Supervisor: Seiichi Tanaka
Color Coordination:
Kayoko Nishi
Satoko Shiho
Color design: Kyōko Ōtake
Creature Design: Jun Suemi
Display Design: Yoshinori Sayama
Finish Check: Yoshiko Kishi
Finish Chief: Oh Sook Kwon
Music producer: Yoshimoto Ishikawa (Victor Entertainment)
Photography:
Hiroki Shiozuka (Studio Cosmos)
Hiroshi Noguchi (Studio Cosmos)
Katsunori Maehara (Studio Cosmos)
Koichi Gonda (Studio Cosmos)
Masafumi Awakura (Studio Cosmos)
Motoaki Ikegami (Studio Cosmos)
Norikazu Yamaguchi (Studio Cosmos)
Shinji Ikegami (Studio Cosmos)
Shōji Yazawa (Studio Cosmos)
Takao Kawahara (Studio Cosmos)
Tetsuo Oofuji (Studio Cosmos)
Tomohiro Nishiyama (Studio Cosmos)
Toshikazu Kuno (Studio Cosmos)
Toshiyuki Sadamatsu (Studio Cosmos)
Yuki Toyonaga (Studio Cosmos)
Yuko Orikasa (Studio Cosmos)
Recording Adjustment: Makoto Sumiya (Tokyo TV Center)
Set Design: Shingo Takeba
Sound Adjustment: Tsuneo Saito
Sound Effects: Kazutoshi Satō
Sound Effects Assistant:
Hironori Ono
Makoto Uchida
Supervision: Yutaka Izubuchi
Title Design:
Norifumi Furuya (+art direction, These Days)
Teruhisa Tajima (+art direction, These Days)
Trace Chief: Sun Hee Choi
Hiroaki Hirata as Shinichiro Hata
Katsuhiko Watabiki as Takeshi Kusumi


Akimasa Ohmori as Patrol Department Manager Yamadera
Atsuko Tanaka as Saeko
Daisuke Gouri as Hiromi Yamazaki
Issei Futamata as Mikiyasu Shinshi
Janika Southwick as Translator
Jiro Shirakawa as Weather Announcer (Radio Tanbo)
Junpei Morita as Colonel Goro Ishihara
Masaru Ikeda as Ohsumi
Michihiro Ikemizu as Isao Ota
Miina Tominaga as Noa Izumi
Paul Lucas as Director
Raita Nakano as Radio Announcer (Radio Tanbo)
Risa Suzuki as Hitomi Misaki
Rokurō Naya as Yoshitake Misaki
Ryunosuke Ohbayashi as Kiichi Goto
Shingo Hiromori as Shizuo Miyanomori
Shō Saitō as Kieko Misaki
Sukekiyo Kameyama as Officer Mimura
Takanobu Hozumi as Toshiro Kurisu
Takuya Hashimura as Kishida
Toshihiko Kojima as General Superintendent Kaiho
Toshio Furukawa as Asuma Shinohara

Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Director: Richard Epcar
Script: Richard Epcar
Translation: Yurika Dennis
Executive producer:
Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Matt Greenfield (Maiden Japan)
Toru Iwakami (Maiden Japan)
Producer: Yukio Kusumoto

ADR Editor: Chris Latham
ADR Recording Engineer: Kostas Gkikas
Art Manager: Larry Koteff (2018 Maiden Japan)
AVID Editor: Alex Agoston
Disc Authoring: Joel McCray (Maiden Japan)
Menu Design:
Larry Koteff (Maiden Japan)
Sarah Cain (2018 Maiden Japan)
Packaging Design:
Larry Koteff (Maiden Japan)
Sarah Cain (2018 Maiden Japan)
Production:
Janice Williams (Maiden Japan)
Joey Goubeaud (Maiden Japan)
Luke Patterson (Maiden Japan)
Roxanne Terrell (Maiden Japan)
Production Assistant:
Cameron Hohle (Maiden Japan)
E.W. Rector, III (Maiden Japan)
Jose DeArmas (Maiden Japan)
Kjell Doucet (Maiden Japan)
Ned Gayle (Maiden Japan)
Shannon Reed (Maiden Japan)
Production Coordination: Janice Williams (Maiden Japan)
Production manager:
Luke Patterson (Maiden Japan)
Son Phan Le (2018 Maiden Japan)
Re-Mixing Engineer:
Patrick Giraudi
Thanos Kazakos
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch (Maiden Japan)
Alfred Thor as Takeshi Kusumi
David Lelyveld as Shinichiro Hata
Michelle Ruff as Noa Izumi

Bob Thomas as Kiichi Goto
Richard Epcar as Isao Ota
Richard Hayworth as Asuma Shinohara

David Umansky as
Police Officer
Shizuo Miyanomori
Helen Storm as
Disbatch Operator
Kieko Misaki
Sign Language Interpreter
Stage Actress
Jake Martin as Police Captain
Julie Maddalena as Hitomi Misaki
Kay Jensen as Saeko Misaki
Michelle Ruff as
Computer System
Reporter
Student
Translator
Richard Epcar as Director
Richard Hayworth as
Kishida
Lab Researcher
Officer Mimura
Ron Allen as
Col. Goro Ishihara
Labor Technician
Simon Isaacson as
Fisherman
Toshiro Kurisu
Steve Kramer as
Boat Captain
Detective
Engineer
Labor Technician
Police Officer
Security Guard
Yoshitake Misaki
Tony Oliver as
Baseball Player
Rude Boyfriend
English companies
Broadcaster: Encore Action
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Section23 Films (North America)
DVD Authoring: SpeeDVD
DVD Menus: Nightjar, LLC
DVD Production: Geneon Entertainment Inc.
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Subtitled & Dubbed)
The Anime Network
Licensed by:
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Maiden Japan (2015)
Package Design: Jason71.com
Recording Studio: Media Concepts
Ultimate Edition Box Design: Jason71.com
French cast
French staff
(none)
Alain Louis as Takeshi Kusumi
Bruno Mullenaerts as Shinichiro Hata

Maia Baran as Saeko Misaki
Marielle Ostrowski as
Hitomi Misaki
Noa Izumi
Michel Hinderyckx as Shizuo Miyanomori
Yvan Reekmans as Goro Ishihara

French companies
Distributor:
Asian Star
KAZÉ
Pathé
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Translation: Bárbara Pesquer (Spain dub)
Executive producer:
Jorge Gabarró Frau (Selecta Visión)
José Luis Puertas (Jonu Media)

ADR Engineer: Marc Arambudo (Spain dub)
Screen Inserts: Tommy Salau (Spain dub)
Subtitler: Fabián Sierra (Jonu Media)
Albert Trifol Segarra as Shinichiro Hata (Spain dub)
Alberto Trifol as Takeshi Kusumi (Spain dub)

Alfonso Vallés as Kiichi Goto (Spain dub)
Angel de Gracia as Shizuo Miyanomori (Spain dub)
Esther Solans as Saeko Misaki (Spain dub)
José Antequera as Toshiro Kurisu (Spain dub)
Pablo Sevilla as Colonel Goro Ishihara (Spain dub)

Artur Palomo as Asuma Shinohara (Spain dub)
Luis García Márquez as Kishida (Spain dub)
Mercedes Pastor as Kieko Misaki (Spain dub)
Miguel Marquillas as Isao Ohta (Spain dub)
Núria Trifol as Noa Izumi (Spain dub)
Toni Solanes as Yoshitake Misaki (Spain dub)

Antonio Moro (Spain dub)
Artur Palomo (Spain dub)
Eduard Doncos (Spain dub)
Eduard Itchart (Spain dub)
Eduardo Diez (Spain dub)
Francisco Alborch (Spain dub)
Jordi Campillo (Spain dub)
Luis García Márquez (Spain dub)
María Pilar Quesada (Spain dub)
Mario Arpal (Spain dub)
Mercedes Pastor (Spain dub)
Miguel Marquillas (Spain dub)
Oriol de Balle (Spain dub)
Tommy Salau (Spain dub)
Toni Solanes (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Dubbing Studio: Q.T. Lever (Spain dub)
Licensed by:
Jonu Media (Spain)
Selecta Visión (Spain; 2016)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Anime on Demand
German cast
(none)
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Distributor: MC Entertainment
Russian cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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