After his death in 1989, the rights and licensing to Tezuka's works obviously did not need approval from the creator anymore but instead by Tezuka Productions. He was not particularly proud of it and did not want to revive it in any way. When asked which work he desired to do, "Metropolis" was his easy answer, but Tezuka shot the idea down immediately. Although some characters featured would eventually appear in Tezuka's other works in the Tezuka-verse, it would take more than half a century and after his death until the story of "Metropolis" would be reimagined for a new audience.Īnime director Rintaro approached Tezuka in the 1980s about adapting his works for the screen. Although popular, the story was never continued and Tezuka never revisited it, leaving it as a one off project that he felt was a rushed and incomplete early work over time. With the lingering image, Tezuka created a 160 page manga with a science fiction touch and became a surprise success with readers. After the success of his "New Treasure Island" from 1947, he had a year to create a new work. Sharing the same name as the 1927 German film "Metropolis", Tezuka claims he saw one still from the film in a magazine with a scientist, an elderly man, and a female robot in shot but knew nothing of the film. "Metropolis" was based on the manga of the same name written by Tezuka Osamu in 1949. Laughton is in fact working for Duke Red, in creating a new kind of robot named Tima (played by Yuka Imoto) more powerful and more humanlike than ever before, in his plans to eventually rule the city. Laughton (played by Junpei Takiguchi) where leads pointed to the city. Visiting the city is Detective Ban (played by Kosei Tomita) along with his young nephew Kenichi Kei Kobayashi), on a pursuit to arrest a wanted criminal named Dr. If any are found outside their areas, they are destroyed. There are cleaners, hotel staff, and even police officers but they are restricted to their assigned areas. In the multilayered city where the lower class live and work in the ghettoized underground areas and the higher class live above in skyscrapers, it also divides the classes with the many robots that help move the city. In the bustling advanced city of Metropolis, the large towering structure the "Ziggurat" designed by Duke Red (played by Taro Ishida) is being celebrated by politicians and the people, but it is also causing some unwanted happenings.
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