WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3

WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
Theatrical poster
Japanese name
KanaWXIII 機動警察パトレイバー
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnWeisuteddo Sātīn Kidō Keisatsu Patoreibā
Directed byFumihiko Takayama
Screenplay byMiki Tori
Based onPatlabor
by Headgear
Produced byMasahiro Fukushima
Tsutomu Sugita
Starring
CinematographyHisao Shirai
Edited byKyoko Mizuta
Takeshi Seyama
Mutsumi Takemiya
Megumi Uchida
Music byKenji Kawai
Production
companies
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • March 30, 2002 (2002-03-30)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (WXIII 機動警察パトレイバー, Weisuteddo Sātīn Kidō Keisatsu Patoreibā) is a 2002 Japanese animated science fiction thriller film directed by Fumihiko Takayama and written by Miki Tori. The third and final installment of the Patlabor film trilogy,[1] it takes place in between Patlabor: The Movie and Patlabor 2: The Movie and serves as a side story, focusing on two police detectives and SV2 as they investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occurring in and around Tokyo Bay that may be connected to a genetic experiment gone wrong. It was animated by Madhouse and produced by Bandai Visual and Tohokushinsha.

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.