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Released July 25th, 2000, 'Patlabor: The Movie' stars Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a user score of 69 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 143 top users.
What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo." .
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The story takes place in what was, at the time of release, the near future of 1998-2002. Robots called "Labors" are employed in heavy construction work. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police has its own fleet of Patlabor robotic police officers to combat crimes and deal with accidents involving Labors. The story arcs usually revolve around Tokyo Metropolitan Police Special Vehicle Section 2, Division 2. Noa Izumi is the main protagonist of the series, but all of Division 2 play roles. The feature films follow separate continuities, referred to as the "movie timeline" and the "TV timeline." The different OVA series follow either the movie or TV timelines.
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