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Actor Naoto Takenaka to Appear in Live-Action Patlabor
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The official poster for Part 2 of Patlabor 2: The Movie.
Former Hello! Project singer and actress Keiji Gotōda (the successor to the anime's Captain Kiichi Gotō). Part 2 — with episode 2 "98-Shiki Sakidō Seyo" (AV-98, Relaunch!) and episode 3 "Tekken Akira" — will premiere in Japan on May 31.
The Patlabor WXIII, was released in theaters in Japan in 2002.
The Next Generation -Patlabor- project is not a remake of the earlier Patlabor anime stories, but a completely new work. The story is set in Tokyo in 2013, and it represents the "third generation" of Patlabor. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police has disbanded its Section 2 Division 1 of police robots, and Section 2 Division 2 barely survived the budget cuts due to the long recession.
The production is budgeted at 2 billion yen (US$20 million), and principal photography ran from June to the end of December. The two life-size Ingram robots were built at the cost of several tens of millions of yen (several hundred thousand US dollars). The production also robot Kuratas.
Oshii commented that the seven-part series will have a "slapstick" ambiance, while the feature film will be serious. Oshii and Kenji Kawai is returning to the franchise to compose the music for both the series and the feature film.
The production company Evangelion films.
announced the rights for the video anime series last year.
Source: Cinema Today
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