One of the most beautiful animes I've ever seen and especially this part give me goose bumps. I've uploaded that part with the 2007 remastered sound track.
I live in a city next to ukrainian border, yesterday at 3am the war started, this is exactly how the entire day felt, so eerie. you could feel the stress of people arround you, sun was shining bright and the air was clear but felt dense in a way. Stay safe everyone
@@soupman6117 it isn't intended to glorify Nazism or primarily associated with Azov anymore, the meaning and intention behind the phrase has changed since the start of the war. language can be and typically is fluid.
@@aspartamexylitol For a global PR perspective yeah it is pretty effective and innocence, but from the perspective of someone who already know about the situation during the war in dombass, this always stings me.
Man I miss Patlabor! 0:40 This shot of the Mecha pilot waving to schoolchildren, while his gun-camera tracks his eye-movement. I always found that image particularly haunting.
This scene alone is worth the price of admission to me. Any hack can make an occupation by an army of cartoonishly evil soldiers look scary. This makes the idea of an army of basically nice guys look haunting. Well done.
The original scene is also backed by a rather deep, and no-nonsense dialogue which, as you said, is well worth the price of admission. However clumsy the franchise/movies come off at times, they provide a lot of food for thought which will probably still be relevant 50 years from now.
It's one of the most thematically important scenes in the film. Japan prides itself on its acquired peace loving nature yet it only takes a couple days to get them to occupy and enforce martial law on tokyo (against the constitution btw). And it takes only a few days for the citizens, previously having become used to the "false peace", to acclimate to their new reality and move on with their lives. Barely anyone does anything about it, they just return to business as usual.
the 0:52 shot of the department store window, with the bright colours, and the reflection of the soldier in the glass, in dark green... this whole sequence is art
This scene reminds me of patroling Baghdad. Often times it was strange calm of people going to work, the occasional group of kids waving to us and cars being driven by bored faces. Our Tank, as big and imposing as it might be to some people became part of the life of the city, part of the background that people mostly barely acknowledged its presence except to drive or walk around.
@@madkabal yeah me too i never lived in Bagdad but it reminds me terrorist in algeria where i lived everything is calm but there always this fear and this coldness you never now what's going to happen.
PlotTwist True for the most part, certainly more than most American or European scifi works of fiction did at the time, but you can see how they expected governments to remain the main actors of power, whereas in reality the power of governments diminished as global corporate interests outweighed national interests. A vision influenced by the cold war and the cohesive Japanese culture and their centralized form of government.
Its almost the same as this movie but in reverse: we're under semi-martial law due to fear of a pandemic- not the disease itself but the fear of it, the same way fear of military personnel would keep many indoors during a domestic occupation. Secondly the enemy is illusive, a rogue military official in hiding may strike from the dark nearly as quickly as a virus
@@OmslayqueenHum Either that or just about any politician. Strings being pulled. New rules and laws made. New laws created on the previous limits. The world is rapidly changing.
I LOVE this movie. This was what got me into anime in the first place. Great mature storytelling, great atmosphere, even though I never saw the series at the time, I found Patlabor 2 to be one of the most engaging films I ever seen animated or not. I really wish anime kept this same level of maturity now.
+Black Plastic Media Live action doesn't necessarily engage emotionally as animation, especially with extended, reflective pillow shots. In Patlabor 2 and even the original GitS, background scenes are constructed carefully to capture precise compositions and emotional responses. Mamoru Oshii (who directed Patlabor 1 and 2) also adopted similar long shot filming tactics for the pillow shots of Kerberos Panzer Cops live action movies, but because the shots were comparatively easier to find and film, it may be perceived as being more mundane and less engaging. Live action/CG compositions in mainstream films also suffer from overdressing and haphazardly included dramatic camera angles because more attention is given to the characters, resulting in visually half-ass, noisy backgrounds that merely serve as a peripheral. Based on the trailers I've watch, the live action GitS seems to exhibit similar problems portraying the city less as a character and more as a mere backdrop for the characters in the story.
Maybe one the best movie scene ever, worthy of Mamoru Oshii. There is no dialogue in this musical interlude of the Patlabor 2 movie, but there are more metaphors, allegories and reflection on life, the world and the society than in most intellectual productions combined. This scene is so captivating by its dark clarity that I have chills and tears in my eyes.
fantastic scene. the way the scenes of the military are juxtaposed against Japanese visual symbols before humanizing them in the snowfall adds so much to the film's atmosphere.
This may sound weird but I remember listening to this soundtrack during a 12 hour work shift once and I mean I listen to this for 12 hours straight normally I can't listen to some the same thing from more than an hour but I think it's so simple you can just keep playing it over and over again it's just blend into the background it really helped me stay calm don't know if anyone else feel that way about this track
Hands down one of my favorite anime. One of the best I've ever seen. I used to watch Pat Labor: The Movie and Pat Labor: The Movie 2 when I was in college. Seeing this brings back so many great memories. Anime just isn't the same today.
One of the strongest anti-war films I've ever seen -- this scene perfectly captures the contradictions of a 'peaceful occupation.' It should be better known.
Well it wasn't actually meant to be "anti-war". The director's point is more on ignorance of Japanese people to what they assume "peace". We hate war and love peace, but what actually are "war and peace" we refer to? This is the point.
umevillage Now I remember where I heard the whole "war and peace" discussion from. I thought it was GitS, but it was actually Patlabor. Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB spy used to talk about this subject a lot. His talks about mainly revolve around psychological warfare and subversion though. It's really interesting how these old subjects are still so relevant today.
This scene reminds me of patroling Baghdad. Often times it was strange calm of people going to work, the occasional group of kids waving to us and cars being driven by bored faces. Our Tank, as big and imposing as it might be to some people became part of the life of the city, part of the background that people mostly barely acknowledged its presence except to drive or walk around.
The more times I watch this film the more meaning I get from it. Is it that I'm changing, or that the world is changing around me? The themes from this film ring more true to me today than they ever have.
this scene has always been stuck in my head even 20 some years later.its perfect the music the scenes of the industrail choas of our planet,war piece all pieced together in a wonderful array of images and moments
on a side note, for those who are italian speakers, the italian dub of this anime is precious gem. The dialogue about war, is rendered flawlessly and even more "poetic" and "serious" in my native language. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9U2Pjq5-LEM.html
Not enough anime hits this kind of tone. I want the love anime more but there are not enough great anime films out there like patablor , Akira, ghost in the shell
Anime art now is nothing but boobs and sex, this truly defines art. The details in every single shot, the buildings, the concrete stains, EVERYTHING! It is truly amazing to look at
Well, it was a small group of people, some within the JASDF, trying to provoke a war by bombing the bridge, making it look like the whole JASDF was trying to start a civil war. The military units brought into the city are deemed 'trustworthy' and not trying to over throw the government. The thought was that if the military tried to make a move, the police alone would be defeated easily.
You get used to something like that, then they all go away and you're surprised when your daughter sees a single infantry man and jumps out of her car seat with excitement.
Everyday Civilian life mixed with the Violent Military protection/Force This moment makes me think that,where never safe from what the movie calls a "worse case scenario" It also could serve as a lesson that even if your country is peaceful or have been able to defeat many enemies in the course of its history,that doest mean civilians,citizens ,regular people havent died,even for reasons like peace or liberty This of course its not attack to those serving in the armed forces,that means a lot and i salute evey men and women who will risk theyre lives to what they believe is a fair cause I see it as just a reminder of how humanity cant help but repeat the same mistakes...how some could even let to total destruction I pray to evey single god that exist...that humanity never faces an event that could lead to total devstation and loss PS:damn that was a lot,sorry if this was a bit dark but its just my interpretation of the scene itself,maybe i went over the top,but its just my nature heh!
0:51 I was a PFC of six months when I accidentally walked into a bunch of military-aficionado type nerds(what do you call them? Otakus?)at a convention centre, and one of them was cosplaying as a 4-star general ... I tried soooo hard not to give them my disgusted, judgemental stare like that 11 bravo on the right, I don't remember how, but I got to talk to him cos my mum was interested and he said he never served...
Man, I literally just saw the dvd for this movie yesterday, I hesitated in getting, but I hope it's still in the store I saw it in......it was just 5 BUCKS....WHY did I pass it up?? Silly me! :-(
They weren't really that small. A large chunk of the military, military intelligence and higher chain of command were in agreement. They just weren't as soon as Tsuge and his brothers punished the corporate, media and civilian government elements in a full scale attack.
Great scene. This and the ghost in the shell movie had the best intermissions ever. I still dont quite understand this story though. So after a JASDF jet bombs the bridge, the police surrounds the bases when the JSDF protest, then all of a sudden they declare martial? For what? What was the police action for?
FM3, FM4, I like FM5's story and what they did outside of combat, but the melee really disappointed me. FM2 appears to have the best combat, though, the Wanzers move around and shoot each other as they play out the "attacks."
Koniving Unfortunately i didnt play any other FM,i heard that FM 3 was the black sheep of the family,that this one diifferent from others,and i couldnt find any of the old parts here in Serbia,and later on there was a problem that it was japanese only,i didnt know anything about modding back then and didnt own PC ,maybe i will catch up later on on PC but i really liked the little RPG moments with that so called internet in game ,as i understood other parts are all about fights and little story.
meh, I always just like the somber feeling of the scene. Citizens go on about their lives with the soldiers on their posts. I never looked at it and felt the need to cry or anything. I just liked the feeling of it along with the music. I especially like the beginning subway, the kids waving at the tank op, the helis in the background, and the snow fall at the end.
@blueskdragonFX Except that part 3 sucks donkey balls. It hardly has anything to do with the patlabor unit, and instead, focuses on the investigation officers for the most part. The music is just as godly, though.
well the movie is a political thriller which is about how a terrorist attack nearly starts a civil war in japan and this police unit known as the sv2 investigate the attack and try to find out who is behind the attacks
Patlabor 2 sticks out from the rest of the franchise, in that its a dark, political thriller that just happens to have a Mecha Police team as its protagonists. The first movie was a much lighter, slapstick film, and was closer to the the TV series in feel. There's a political message in the movie that ties into Japanese geopolitics of the time, especially around JSDF military involvement overseas. When I first watched this over 25 years ago (!!!!) as a yoof, it was the first anime that I felt was a film with a point to make, not a cartoon for older kids / adults. This, Akira and Ghost in the Shell make the trinity of first-wave anime that got me hooked. Patlabor 2 remains one of my favourite movies of all time, along with its sublime Kenji Kawai (Also of Ghost in the Shell) soundtrack. Aside: The original English dub was surprisingly excellent (and the only choice on VHS) but that dubnever made it to the HD releases AFAIK. That said, I'm now a bit of a purist snob and I only watch movies in their original language w/subs :)
It's about a soldier who has become dissolutioned with his country's peace loving policy that constantly denies war while it benefits from it, so he staged terrorist attacks that looks like a coup to show how fragile Japan really is at the time when it comes to handling such situation. At the same time, it's about a group of law enforcement officers who were compelled to act and make the futile effort to put a stop in this crisis because their higher-ups don't have the courage to do so, not even support them. Their role is quite limited in the movie, but that's how they are treated most of the time - a last ditch effort that can be disposed of and be expendable, and the members of SV2 unironically upholds their duties despite the fact.
This 1 movie is why I both love and hate anime... love it because it perfectly encapsulates a ambitious era trying to reach a highpoint in mature writing and animation, showing what anime could be... hate it because I realise this style of anime is a relict of a time long gone by that we'll never see again in the digital era... Honestly watching anime from the 90s really taints your perspective on the medium as you realise nothing will be like it ever again... soo different to the shonen bubble we have today (nothing wrong with shonen realise it was also big in 90s also... but still, you'd have stuff like this to counterbalance it way back then).. Honestly not sure how I feel about the medium anymore... not that current style is bad.... just doesn't really captivate me like stuff like akira, gits, memories, ect... Kinda
@nickmattedwards You mean the bullshit produced by most anime studios that pander solely to the typical anime fan that prefers panty shots, nose bleeds and yuri undertones in their anime? Yeah, I agree on that. Disney actually makes good films for the most part.
While I'm not a fan of all of oshi's work, (some are just too damned artsy and literally have nothing happening in them.) I've always enjoyed this movie and it's great sense of atmosphere. He also surprised me with gits2 and it's balance of story, intrigue, and action.
