Metropolis：Full Cast & Crew

Directed by

Rintarô

Writing Credits

Osamu Tezuka
(comic book): Katsuhiro Ôtomo
(screenplay): Fritz Lang
(1927 screenplay) (uncredited): Thea von Harbou
(novel) (uncredited)

Cast

Yuka Imoto
Tima: Kei Kobayashi
Kenichi: Kôki Okada
Rock: Tarô Ishida
Duke Red: Kôsei Tomita
Hige-Oyaji: Norio Wakamoto
Pero: Junpei Takiguchi
Dr. Laughton: Takeshi Aono
Ponkotz: Masaru Ikeda
President Boon: Shun Yashiro
Notarlin: Toshio Furukawa
Skunk: Shigeru Chiba
Lamp: Masashi Ebara
Ham Egg: Takaya Hashi
Lyon: Norihiro Inoue
Atlas: Rikako Aikawa
Fifi: Tomohisa Asô
(voice) (as Tomohisa Aso): Michael Shitanda
(voice) (as Masato Amada): Takeshi Sasaki
(voice): Shigeru Shibuya
(voice): Tomoyuki Shimura
(voice): Tomokazu Sugita
(voice): Ken'ichi Suzumura
(voice) (as Kenichi Suzumura): Keiichi Sonobe
(voice): Susumu Chiba
(voice): Makoto Higo
(voice): Mami Koyama
Enmy: Yûko Minaguchi
Uguisujo: Rica Matsumoto
Fujinkyaku: Daisuke Ryû
Special Voice Appearance: Takashi Yanase
Special Voice Appearance: Gô Nagai
Special Voice Appearance: Yutaka Hayashi
Special Voice Appearance: Toshiyuki Honda
Special Voice Appearance: Kozue Okada
Special Voice Appearance: DJ Taro
Special Voice Appearance: Tatsuya Fukunoue
Special Voice Appearance: Ken Ayugai
Special Voice Appearance: Yusuke Suzuki
Special Voice Appearance: Robert Axelrod
Ham Egg: Steve Blum
Acetylene Lamp: William Frederick Knight
Supt. Notarlin: Dave Mallow
Pero: Steve McGowan
President Boone: Tony Pope
Shinsaku Ban: Simon Prescott
Dr. Laughton: Jamieson Price
Duke Red: Michael Reisz
Rock: Peter Spellos
Mayor Lyon: Melodee Spevack
Additional English Characters: Doug Stone
Dr. Ponkotsu: Kai Taschner
(voice): Scott Weinger
Atlas: Dan Woren
Skunk: Kirk Baily
Scientist: Brianne Brozey
Kenichi: Peter Doyle
Journalist: Doug Erholtz
Atlas' Friend: Rebecca Forstadt
Tima: Barbara Goodson
Enmy: Peter Lurie
Uprising Comrade A: Robert Machemer
Additional Voices: Jad Mager
Torong Bartender: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Misc. Loudspeaker Voices: Kirk Thornton
Uprising Comrade B: Tom Wyner
General

Produced by

Tadamichi Abe
executive producer: Masamichi Fujiwara
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Hisanori Hiranuma
executive producer: Haruyo Kanesaku
producer (english version): Kazumi Kawashiro
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Shinji Komori
producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Masao Maruyama
producer: Yutaka Maseba
producer: Takayuki Matsutani
executive producer: Kazue Motodate
assistant producer: Ken Munekata
executive producer: Fumio Nagase
executive producer: Peter Nelson
executive producer (english version): Masamitu Onodera
assistant producer: Yoshihiro Shimizu
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: TÃ´ru Shiohara
executive producer: Tsutomu Takano
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Masao Takiyama
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Akihiko Terashima
executive producer: RyÃ´hei Tsunoda
executive producer: Shigeru Watanabe
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Iwao Yamaki
producer: Takeshi Yasuda
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee: Toshimichi Ãtsuki
executive producer: Metropolis Production Committee (as Toshimichi Ohtsuki)

Music by

Toshiyuki Honda

Cinematography by

Hitoshi Yamaguchi

Editing by

Koji Busaka
on-line editor: Ineko Suzuki
off-line editor

Art Direction by

ShÃ»ichi Hirata
(as Shuichi Hirata)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Naoko Kusumi
assistant director

Art Department

Satoshi Hashimoto
assistant color setting: Chikako Kamata
assistant color setting: RyÃ´ KÃ´no
assistant art director (as Ryo Kawano): Osamu Mikasa
color setting: Atsushi Morikawa
assistant art director: Masami Ozone
artwork layout support: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
storyboard artist

Sound Department

Atsushi Aikawa
digital mastering: Kunio AndÃ´
sound recordist: Aoi Studio (as Kunio Ando): Masataka Fukuda
sound recordist: Larry Hopkins
layback sound mixer: Tsutomu Kashiwakura
assistant sound director: Shizuo Kurahashi
sound effects: Sound Box: Masafumi Mima
sound director: Tomoko Nakashima
sound producer: Techno Sound: Noboru Nishio
digital optical recordist: Akira Rizawa
technical support: Aoi Studio: Noriko Tsushi
digital mastering: Yuji Yagami
assistant sound recordist: Aoi Studio: Fujio Yamada
dialog editor: Techno Sound: Fernando Ascani
dialogue recordist (uncredited)

Special Effects by

Toyohiko Sakakibara
cel/digital special effects: Sachi Suzuki
cel/digital special effects: Kumiko Taniguchi
cel/digital special effects

Visual Effects by

ShÃ»ichi Hirata
CGI art director (as Shuichi Hirata): Tsuneo Maeda
CGI technical director: Yoshimichi Murata
digital production coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department

Yukihiro Masumoto
photographer: Masashi Nagao
photographer: AtsurÃ´ SaitÃ´
photographer (as Atsuro Saito)

Animation Department

Hisashi Abe
layout artist: Shigeo Akahori
key animation supervisor: Hyun Ji An
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kyu Hwan An
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie (as An Kyu Hwan): Masahiro Andô
key animator: Katsushi Aoki
background artist: Kazuhisa Asai
background artist: Tsutomu Awada
key animator (as Tsutomu Awata): Yu-mi Chae
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Myung-sim Chio
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Hyun Mi Cho
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Hyun-ok Choi
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Se-kwan Choi
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Soon Hee Choi
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie (as Choi Soon Hee): Yong Choi
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Yong Pei Chun
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions: Kyung-Ai Chung
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Pek Eun Ea
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Cho Young Eim
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Masaaki EndÃ´
key animator (as Masaaki Endo): Yasuhiro EndÃ´
key animator (as Yasuhiro Endo): Yui Enomoto
inbetween animator: Chen Yong Feng
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Shigeru Fujita
key animation supervisor: Cheng Xiao Gang
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Myeong-yeon Ha
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kunihiko Hamada
key animator: Hiroshi Hamasaki
key animator (as Hiro Hamasaki) / key animator (as Hiroshi Hamazaki): Jin Young Han
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Ying Han
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Takako Hasegawa
inbetween animator: Mushi Productions: Shinji Hashimoto
key animator: Asuka Hata
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions: Choung Youn Hee
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Jeon Sun Hee
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Lee Yeun Hee
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Park Yoon Hee
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kahoru Hirata
key animator: ShÃ»ichi Hirata
character color designer (as Shuichi Hirata): Toshio Hirata
assistant key animation supervisor / key animator: Young Sun Hong
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kaichi Honma
key animator: Motonobu Hori
inbetween animator: Ohi Productions: Takafumi Hori
inbetween animator: Yoshinori Horikawa
digital cel checker: Mieko Hosoi
key animator: Yoon Suk Hue
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Soon-a Hwang
animation checker: Dr. Movie: Su Jin Hwang
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Gum-sun Hwung
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Jung Bok Hyun
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Misuzu Ichinose
animation checker: Ohi Productions: Keiko Iimori
inbetween animator: Hisashi Ikeda
background artist: Yuji Ikehata
digital artist: Miyako Imae
inbetween animator: Mushi Productions: Junko Ina
background artist: Ei Inoue
key animator: Eiko Inoue
digital cel checker: Satoshi Iriyoshi
key animator: ShÃ»ko ItÃ´
cel checker: YÃ»ko Iwasa
key animator (as Yuko Iwasa): Chul-soon Jang
digital ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Hyun-sik Jang
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Nam-ok Jang
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Youn Hee Jeong
animation checker: Dr. Movie: Eun-suk Jeoung
ink and paint artist: Lee Jin
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Choi Ki Jung
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Soon An Jung
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Yuriko Kadomoto
ink and paint artist: Masatoshi Kai
background artist: Yoshinori Kanada
key animator: Emi Kaneko
inbetween animator: Mushi Productions: Yoshinori Kanemori
layout artist: Eun Kyoung Kang
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Oh Soon Kang
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: TetsurÃ´ Karai
key animator (as Tetsuro Kaku): Hiroyuki Kasugai
key animator: Miyuki Katayama
key animator: Tomoko Katsube
inbetween animator: Mushi Productions: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
key animator / layout artist: Megumi Kawakami
inbetween animator: Kumiko Kawana
key animator: Hirotsugu Kawasaki
key animator: Hiroki Kawazoe
key animator: Eun-Hee Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie (as Eun-hee Kim): Hwa Soon Kim
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Hyun Suk Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Jong-min Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Jung Eun Kim
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Jung-a Kim
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kyoung-mee Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Mi-ran Kim
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Moon-ki Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Su-jaung Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Sun-a Kim
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Sung-jin Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Tai-joon Kim
digital ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Youn-sim Kim
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Kazuhiro Kinoshita
digital artist: Masaru Kitao
key animator: Sung-jik Ko
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Junji Kobayashi
animation checker: Tezuka Production Company Ltd.: Kazuo Komatsubara
key animator: Akiko Konno
inbetween animator: Yumi Koshikawa
ink and paint artist: O-joon Kown
digital painter: Dr. Movie: Koji Kumasaki
digital cel checker: Satoshi Kuroda
background artist: Hyun Soon Kwon
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Suk-o Kwon
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kitarô Kôsaka
key animator (as Kitaro Kosaka): Eun Sil Lee
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Eun-Jung Lee
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie (as Jung Eun Lee): Hae-kyung Lee
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Jae-min Lee
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Kang-teg Lee
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kyung-won Lee
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Nam Hee Lee
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Oun-ki Lee
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Seung-gwon Lee
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Suk-hoon Lee
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Sung-min Lee
digital ink and paint artist: Young Sim Lee
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: An-myoung Lim
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Hyo-kyoung Lim
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Niu Wen Lin
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Zhang Deng Long
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Masao Maruyama
animation producer: Tian Yong Mei
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Yasuhiko Mikajiri
ink and paint artist: Yutaka Minowa
key animator: Atsuya Miura
key animator: JÃ»ji Mizumura
key animator: Sung Ho Moon
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Hiroyuki Mori
cel checker: Hiromitsu Morita
key animator: Ju Youn Mun
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Yasushi Muraki
key animator: Sanae Murata
cel checker: Mi Ae Na
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Yeon-suk Na
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Morifumi Naka
key animator: Wataru Nakagawa
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions (as Susumu Nakagawa): Kazuki Nakamoto
inbetween animator: Ohi Productions: Kana Nakayama
ink and paint artist: Takahito Nakazawa
animation checker: Yasuhiro Nakura
character designer / chief key animation supervisor / key animator: Toshiya Niidome
key animator: Hiromi Niioka
key animator: Masayoshi Nishida
key animator: Takuo Noda
key animator: Su-im Oh
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Yun Mi Oh
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Masao Ohashi
inbetween animator: Ohi Productions: Hiroshi Oikawa
key animator: Takashi Okamura
animation checker: Tezuka Production Company Ltd.: Hiroyuki Okiura
key animator: Yoshiko Okuda
inbetween animator: Harue Ono
ink and paint artist: Masami Ozone
key animator: Hye Ryung Park
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Jun Hee Park
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Mi-ra Park
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Myung Hee Park
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Oak In Park
digital ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Se-ra Park
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Sung-nam Park
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Yong Kyoung Park
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Choi Hey Ran
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Takashi SaijÃ´
key animator: Miharu Sakai
cel checker: Masahiro Sakamoto
ink and paint artist: Kayo Sakazume
animation checker: Kunihiko Sakurai
key animation supervisor: Shinsaku Sasaki
key animator: Akiko SatÃ´
cel checker (as Akiko Sato): Satoko Shiho
cel checker: Hiroshi Shimizu
key animator: Eun-kyung Shin
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Kyoung Hwa Shin
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Nobumasa Shinkawa
key animator: Mayumi ShÃ´ji
ink and paint artist (as Mayumi Shoji): Gum Sub Sin
inbetween animator: Kyung Kang Animation: Eun Ha Song
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie (as Song Eun Ha): Hyun Ju Song
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Myeongsoo Song
digital ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie (as Myong-soo Song): Kuk Sun Oak
ink and paint artist: Dr. Movie: Yasuyuki Suzuki
inbetween animator: Mushi Productions: YÃ»ka Suzuki
ink and paint artist (as Yuuka Suzuki): Masaharu Tada
key animator: Tomiko Takamori
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions: Chizu Takanuki
inbetween animator: Mushi Productions: Seiki Tamura
background artist: KyÃ´ko Tanaka
background artist (as Kyoko Tanaka): Seiji Tanda
key animator: Norimoto Tokura
key animator: Jinko Tsuji
animation checker: Ohi Productions: Shigeto Tsuji
assistant key animation supervisor / key animator: Hiroshi Uchida
key animator: Hitoshi Ueda
key animator: IchirÃ´ Uno
inbetween animator: Kazuhiko Utagawa
key animator: Hiroshi Wagatsuma
key animator: Aiko Wakatsuki
inbetween animator: Li Min Wang
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Akira Watanabe
key animator: Sakiko Watanabe
inbetween animator: Wan Zhi Wen
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Song-sik Woo
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Katsuya Yamada
key animator: Norio Yamaguchi
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions: Akira Yamakawa
background artist: Iwao Yamaki
animation producer: Tomoko Yamamoto
ink and paint artist: Yasusuke Yamamoto
ink and paint artist: Kiyomi Yamazaki
digital cel checker: YÃ»ko Yazaki
inbetween animator (as Yuko Yazaki): In-suk Yoo
ink and paint artist: Kyung Kang Animation: Aya Yoshida
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions: Yumiko Yoshikawa
inbetween animator: Tezuka Productions: Masateru Yoshimura
animation checker: Tezuka Production Company Ltd. / key animator: Hye-seon Youn
inbetween animator: Dr. Movie: Myung Hee Youn
animation checker: Dr. Movie: Xiang Chun Zhao
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Hong Wu Zhou
inbetween animator: Beijing Xiele Art Co. Ltd.: Manabu Ôhashi
key animator: Akiko Ãshima
animation checker (as Akiko Ohshima): Kiyomi Ãta
background artist: KyÃ´ko Ãtake
cel checker (as Kyooko Ootake)

Editorial Department

Koji Busaka
on-line editor: Ineko Suzuki
off-line editor

Music Department

Hiroshi Abe
musician: banjo: Masataka Fukuda
music engineer / music mixer: Masahiro GotÃ´
musician: clarinet: Toshiyuki Honda
musician: bass clarinet and saxophone: Shin Kazuhara
musician: trumpet: Katsuaki Nakatani
conductor: Kozue Okada
music producer: Masahiko Osaka
musician: drums: Rintarô
musician: bass clarinet: Kiyoshi SatÃ´
musician: tuba (as Kiyoshi Sato): Norihide Shiota
musician: bass

Additional Crew

Joni Cuquet
field publicist: KÃ´suke EndÃ´
title producer: Maki Productions: KÃ´ji Futahashi
assistant digital producer (as Koji Futahashi): Ayumi Kimura
production secretary: Masao Maruyama
project initiation: Nobuko Maruyama
production secretary: Toru Matsunawa
assistant digital producer: Shoko Oono
translator (English version): Rintarô
project initiation: Michitoshi Sugai
titles: Shigeru Watanabe
project initiation: Marc Handler
English dubbing script (uncredited): Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
English dubbing script (uncredited)