Neo Tokyo
– Three shorts directed by the same names that brought you Metropolis, Ninja Scroll, and Akira. It beg..
Three shorts directed by the same names that brought you Metropolis, Ninja Scroll, and Akira. It begins with “Labyrinth Labyrintos”, a story of a maze in a child's mind, directed by Rintaro. Next Yoshiaki Kawajiri gives us “The Running Man”. This is a futuristic formula one race is set on a deadly track. Lastly Katsuhiro Ôtomo describes a struggle to shut down an entirely automated facility in “Construction Cancellation Order“.
20 Nov 1992
Japanese
Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Rintaro, Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Taku Mayumura (short stories), Rintaro (screenplay), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (screenplay), Katsuhiro Ôtomo (screenplay)
Hideko Yoshida, Masane Tsukayama, Yû Mizushima, Iemasa Kayumi
In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a little girl and her cat find within the old longcase clock in her house a doorway to a strange supernatural world. Is it real or just a figment of her vivid imagination? In "Running Man", the champion of a popular deadly racing championship, where racers usually get themselves or each other killed, takes on the ultimate opponent. A reporter is there to witness the supernatural event. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man is ordered to shut down robotic construction workers who are building some new facility for the government. Since the robots are all programmed to finish their work no matter what, they refuse to be shut down. A deadly game of cat and mouse begins between the man and the machines. However, the game was rigged from the start.