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Metropolis is a great city of the future where persons and robots co-exist. The civilization has reached another stage and societies are absolutely segmented. It is in this setting that detective Shunsaku Ban and his partner Kenichi are looking for Dr Laughton. They want to arrest the scientist and, also, to seize Tima, a young robot developed by him. The two detectives, however, did not expect that Dr Laughton would be protected by a powerful man who is trying to settle accounts with the past. Metropolis is based on Japanese comics by Osamu Tezuka, one of the most important comic-strip draughtsmen in Japan. The script is by Katsuhiro Otomo, internationally known for his cartoon Akira.