Patlabor: The Next Generation- Live Action Film

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Patlabor also known as Mobile Police Patlabor, is a 1988 anime and manga that centered around the special robotics force of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police as they solved various cases in a then-near-future of 1998.
The film is currently slated for a 2015 release and has secured the involvement of the anime's original director, Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell).

Official site
http://patlabor-nextgeneration.com/

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Announcement video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3djorShfcE

It turns out that The Next Generation -Patlabor- will be a seven-part live action series which will eventually lead to a full feature film.

The series' story will be set in Tokyo, in the year 2013, and it represents the "third generation" of Patlabor. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police has disbanded its Section 2 Division 1 of police robots, and Section 2 Division 2 barely survived the budget cuts due to the long recession.

The project will begin with a seven-part series that distributor Shochiku will run in special theatrical engagements in Japan, starting next April. The seven parts are composed of an episode 0 (about 10 minutes long) and 12 full episodes (about 48 minutes long) helmed by the project's chief director Mamoru Oshii and other directors. Then, Oshii is directing and writing a feature-length film (about 100 minutes long) that will open in 2015. The title of the feature will be announced later.

Oshii commented that the seven-part series will have a "slapstick" ambience, while the feature film will be serious. Oshii and Kei Yamamura are writing the scripts for the series, and Kenji Kawai is returning to the franchise to compose the music for both the series and the feature film.

Former Hello! Project singer and actress Erina Mano will star as pilot Akira Izumino (as opposed to the anime's heroine Noa Izumi). The cast also includes Seiji Fukushi as Yūma Shiobara, Rina Oota as Ekaterina Krachevna Kankaeva ("Kasha") from Russia, Shigeru Chiba reprising his anime role as maintenance squad chief Shigeo Shiba, and Toshio Kakei as Captain Keiji Gotōda (the successor to the anime's Captain Kiichi Gotō).

The production is budgeted at 2 billion yen (US$20 million), and principal photography is running from June to the end of December. The two life-size Ingram robots were built at the cost of several tens of millions of yen (several hundred thousand US dollars).

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Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0jtJbK_GJWA

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Website Eiga.com unveiled two new screenshots from Mamoru Oshii's live-action The Next Generation -Patlabor- series and film project . The screenshots revealed that Suidobashi Heavy Industry's real-life rideable robot Kuratas will serve as a Labor robot that will appear alongside Patlabor's iconic (but fictional) Ingram.

After seeing that the Kuratas was on sale for about 100 million yen (about US$1 million), the production staff decided that it looked almost exactly like a Labor and asked to have one in the film. According to the project's chief director Mamoru Oshii, now that they have the robot, there is no reason to use CG or props for it. However, Eiga.com reports that the project as a whole will use the latest CG and VFX techniques.

Kuratas in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29MD29ekoKI&feature=player_embedded

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New Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o7zAWaL7EuQ

Prologue
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1fhrxr_%E3%83%91%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%90%E3%83%BCep00_shortfilms

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