This cutting-edge animated features combines the visions of three key creative   forces from the anime and manga worlds: director Rintaro (X),              screenwriter Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), and the late manga (comic book)      master Osamu Tezuka, whose 1949 manga was the basis for the film. An homage to Fritz Lang's silent classic of the same name, the story involves a futuristic  world where robots and humans uncomfortably co-exist, and the beautiful        creation Tima may hold the fate of the future. "...a futuristic parable, with    something of Kubrick, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, but with a        staggeringly intricate vision of the city state itself...the gasp-inducing     urban landscape is a real wonder" (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian).        Rintaro---Japan---2001---106 mins.