By Alison L. Roberts

Credits

Based on a story by: Osamu Tezuka
Director: Rintaro
Screenplay: Katsuhiro Otomo
Character Design/Still Director: Yasuhiro Nakura
Art Director: Shuichi Hirata
Animation: Madhouse
Music Score: Toshiyuki Honda
Theme - "There Will Never Be Good-Bye": Minako "Mooki" Obata
Soundtrack - "St. James Infirmary" by: Atsuki Kimura
Featuring "I Can't Stop Loving You" by: Ray Charles

DVD Features & Specs

- Two disc set
- First-ever "pocket DVD" of added value elements
- Special packaging - new fold-out packaging with outer sleeve
- Widescreen and Full Screen presentations
- Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video
- Sound: Japanese DTS and 5.1 Dolby Digital, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, French
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai
- Animax Special: The Making of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis
- Exclusive Featurette: Interview with Rintaro
- Two Animation Comparisons: These show you a scene and break it out into all the steps that went into creating it, from polygons to the finished product - a fusion of cell and CG animation.
- History of the "Metropolis" Comic Book
- Theatrical Trailers: Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (English-language trailer for subtitled theatrical release), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Japanese-language theatrical teaser, subtitled) and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
- Biography of Osamu Tezuka
- Animated Menus
- Production Notes
- Scene Selections