Live-action PATLABOR uses Ayaka's new song "Lose Control" as the image song for the feature-length theatrical version of "Capital Decisive Battle"!　Collaboration video has been released.

THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR" is a live-action version of the classic anime "Mobile Police Patlabor," and a collaboration video with Ayaka has been released.

→The live-action version of Patlabor, with a total of seven chapters, will be screened at events starting in April 2014! Completely original new "THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR".

The film, which has attracted attention because it was produced at a total production cost of 2.2 billion yen, including a life-size Type 98 Ingram measuring 8 meters in length and a fully realized Section 2 building with a Laberdog attached, will start with Chapter 1 (Episodes 0-1) on April 5, 2014, followed by the final Chapter 7 (Episode 12, "The Great Legacy") on January 10, 2015. The Great Legacy") was screened. The feature-length theatrical version "THE NEXT GENERATION PATLABOR: Capital Decisive Battle" will be released on May 1, 2015.

The image song for the feature-length theatrical version will be Ayaka's new song "Lose Control". A 60-second collaboration video using the song was shown. Lose Control" is a completely new song that will be included in Ayaka's original album "Rainbow Road," which will be released on April 15 for the first time in three years, and it is an up-tempo song that overturns Ayaka's previous image. The feature film version features Akira Izumino (Erina Mano) piloting Ingram, Kasha (Rina Ota) in a gunfight with AK in hand, Toshi Takahata (Reiko Takashima), a public safety officer who is the first to get information on terrorists and works in the dark, Zero Haibara (Kanna Mori) who controls Grey Ghost and lays waste to the capital, and the first-generation Special Vehicle Section 2, who watches over them in the shadows One of the themes of the film is "women's struggle" among five strong women, including Shinobu Nagumo, the commander of the 1st Platoon, who watches over the Special Vehicle Division 2 from the shadows. Incidentally, Ms. Ayaka also sang the theme song "Embraced by Stars Tonight..." for Mr. Oshii's previous work, "Sky Crawlers.

The collaboration video will be screened at theaters nationwide from April 4, and a 30-second TV spot with the same content will be broadcast from April 5.

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

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