Patlabor WXIII the Movie

Patlabor WXIII the Movie (2002)

WXIII 機動警察パトレイバー

Stillborn terror strikes from Tokyo Bay.

Set in the year 2000, when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.

Date of release
2002-03-30
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (54)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Action, Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller
Director
Fumihiko Takayama, Takuji Endo
Collection
Patlabor Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Patlabor

WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 is a 2002 Japanese animated science fiction thriller film directed by Fumihiko Takayama and written by Miki Tori. The third and final installment of the Patlabor film trilogy, it takes place in between Patlabor: The Movie and Patlabor 2: The Movie and serves as a side story, focusing on two police detectives and SV2 as they investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occurring in and around Tokyo Bay that may be connected to a genetic experiment gone wrong. It was animated by Madhouse and produced by Bandai Visual and Tohokushinsha.

Development

Triangle Staff was the original animation studio entrusted with the film, however the studio went defunct during its production. Madhouse then took over the project, though Triangle Staff's involvement would be acknowledged in the film's end credits.

Very similar in premise and plot to episode 3 of the original OVA The 450-Million-Year-Old Trap and the manga arcs in volumes 7 to 10 that greatly extended the plot of that episode.

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