If you need any evidence that we’re living in some kind of Golden Age of movie animation, look no farther than “Metropolis,” the latest example of imported Japanese anime — and one of the more ...

Rintaro's deliriously dense animated thriller "Metropolis" is not a remake of Fritz Lang's futuristic silent classic, but the title fits. Lang once confessed that New York's skyscraper-dominated ...

"Metropolis," which includes a few nods to the futuristic city of the classic film of the same name, is based on the late 1940s Japanese manga (comic) by Osamu Tezuka, who is acknowledged as the ...

On Friday, one of the most ambitious animated films from Japan opens in U.S. theaters. It's called Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, and it's inspired by Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film of the same name. Beth ...