Blu-ray release: ‘Patlabor: The Movie’

By   |  Jan 25, 2024

Anime Limited are bringing the 1989 Japanese animated sci-fi mystery thriller ‘Patlabor: The Movie’ (機動警察パトレイバー the Movie) to UK Blu-ray on January 29, 2024.

Directed by Mamoru Oshii, the film finds the screwball cops of Special Vehicles Section 2 Division 2 investigating a spree of rampaging construction robots. The voice cast includes Toshio Furukawa, Miina Tominaga, Ryunosuke Ohbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yo Inoue, and Michihiro Ikemizu.

Synopsis: 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 the 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. What is the connection between the suicide, the new mobile Police AV-XO Zero Labor, and a berserk prototype tank?

When Patlabor cops Noah Izumi and Azuma Shinohara investigate an unexplained wave of rogue Labors rampaging across the city, they uncover a sinister revenge plot to infect Tokyo’s population of 8,000 Labors with the deadly BABEL virus. With the future of the city hanging in the balance and a typhoon poised to trigger the devastation, Noah, Azuma, and their teammates must destroy the source of the virus–the giant Babylon Project tower in Tokyo Bay–in a battle to the finish.

Features:
• Collector’s Slipcase
• 36 Page Booklet

‘Patlabor: The Movie’ is available to pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk.

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