Live-action PATLABOR, scene photos from the feature-length theatrical version "Capital Decisive Battle" are released! Armed helicopter "Gray Ghost" and pilot Zero Haibara are also seen.

THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR" is a live-action version of the classic anime "Mobile Police Patlabor," and now scenes from the feature-length theatrical version have been released.


→Live-action version of PATLABOR, 7 chapters will be screened at events from April 2014! Completely original new "THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR".

The film, which has attracted attention for its total production cost of 2.2 billion yen, including the 8-meter-long life-size Type 98 Ingram and the fully realized Section 2 building with its own Laberdog, will be released sequentially starting with Chapter 1 (Episodes 0-1) on April 5, with the final Chapter 7 (Episode 12 "The Greatest Legacy") to be screened from January 10, 2015. The seventh and final chapter ("The Great Legacy") has been screened since January 10, 2015.


The feature film "THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR: Capital Decisive Battle," which will be released on May 1, has now unveiled its scene photos. The scenes show the Special Vehicle Section 2 confronting the terrorists, with Captain Goto (Toshio Kakei), Akira (Erina Mano), Kasha (Rina Ota) and others lined up with shotguns and AK-47s in their hands, and Haibara Zero (Kanna Mori) standing before the "Gray Ghost" helicopter that the terrorist group will launch as the spearhead to attack the capital. Zero Haibara (Kanna Mori) is also seen. The scene also shows the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building being bombed, Ingram under heavy fire, Captain Goto and Shigeo Shiba standing in front of Ingram, who appears to have been banned from firing, and Akira Izumino holding a revolver cannon from the exposed cockpit, giving the viewer a sense of the scale of the battle and its grandeur. The film is a large scale and epic battle.




All seven chapters of "THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR" series
Screening will begin on April 5 at Shinjuku Piccadilly and other theaters! (Episode 0: about 15 minutes, Episodes 1-12: about 48 minutes each)
Release date: [Chapter 1] April 5, [Chapter 2] May 31, [Chapter 3] July 12, [Chapter 4] August 30, [Chapter 5] October 18, [Chapter 6] November 29, [Chapter 7] January 10, 2015
Cast: Erina Mano, Toshio Kakei, Seiji Fukushi, Rina Ota, Shigeru Chiba, etc.
General Director: Mamoru Oshii / Music: Kenji Kawai / Original Idea: Head Gear
Production: Tohoku Shinsha, Omnibus Japan / Distributor: Shochiku Media Division


THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR: Capital Crisis Feature Film
Opening Friday, May 1, 2015 at Shinjuku Piccadilly and other theaters nationwide (approx. 100 min.)
Cast: Toshio Kakei, Erina Mano, Seiji Fukushi, Rina Ota, Shigeru Chiba, Kanna Mori, Kotaro Yoshida, Reiko Takashima
Director/Screenplay: Mamoru Oshii / Music: Kenji Kawai / Original Idea: Head Gear
Production: Tohokushinsha / VFX Production: Omnibus Japan / Distributor: Shochiku


(C)2015 HEADGEAR/"THE NEXT GENERATION -PATLABOR-" Production Committee

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