WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2001)

WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3: Directed by Takuji Endo, Fumihiko Takayama. With Katsuhiko Watabiki, Hiroaki Hirata, Atsuko Tanaka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi. Two police detectives and SV2 investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occuring in and around Tokyo Bay.

“Anyone who comes to this anime expecting cliché Japanese robot/monster fights is in for deep, deep disappointment. But if you are interested in one of the finest Japanese procedural films since Kurosawau0026#39;s High u0026amp; Low, watch this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI have no idea what inspired the creators of the otherwise pedestrian Patlabor series to create this almost noirish meditation on the grey, atomized life of modern Japanese. But by combining the deliberate pace of Kurosawau0026#39;s masterwork with portraits of weathered bureaucrats and alienated beauties lost in in Tokyou0026#39;s concrete jungle, this work envelopes one in Japanese life at the millennium. Itu0026#39;s an extraordinary piece of immersion into a culture that is superficially like ours but in reality vastly different.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot i subside the point–it is the day to day details of the two lead detectives that are the true subject of this astonishing film.”