Patlabor 2: Unnatural city

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.

[@soupman6117]

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

[@benjellounoussama2823]

Stay safe, I directly thought of the situation after playing that video

[@anon8720]

>slawa ukrainie cringe

[@johngojcevic8731]

@@soupman6117 you are Ukrainian how are you not aware

[@aspartamexylitol]

@@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.

[@Verpal]

@@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.

[@DrownedInExile]

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.

[@normieloser6969]

Holy

[@jaywingate187]

Wow, I'd missed that shot when I saw it as a kid. Thats a hell of an image...

[@mattstorm360]

And that quick glance at the sky just in case an attack was coming.

[@fantastick00l11]

​@@mattstorm360 Damn I thought the pilot was just showing off to the kids

[@willbyys7936]

​@@fantastick00l11 he was prolly showing that his head control the camera

[@bificommander]

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.

[@garba1984]

@@lobbyskids2 yeahh, and makes a nice contrast to the dreamlike music...

[@omnirhythm]

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.

[@Razgriz0202]

Mamoru oshiis animation is unmatched wish I could say the same for his live action.

[@weir-t7y]

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.

[@judyhopps9380]

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

[@bored1ca]

This is one of the greatest anime sequences ever and the score by Kenji Kawai simply makes this a visual treasure piece.

[@Chalmsloff]

"This scene gives me serious Ghost in the Shell vibes" 'Well the music is by Kenji Kawai' "Well there you go"

[@gilzineto]

It's not only about the music, the movie itself have the same director from ghost in the shell movies... it has his signature all over it

[@TREPLE]

@@gilzineto also same studio

[@neilworms2]

@@TREPLE Its pretty much practically the same staff, most of the top line staff are the same.

[@TREPLE]

@@neilworms2 yup

[@kentallard8852]

same animation studio and crew

[@RM2011ish]

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.

[@MaisonOtaku]

Rashad Moore What you mean you wouldn't rather watch Haruhi Suzumiya? (obvious sarcasm is obvious)

[@tetramack]

+Rashad Moore Until you saw "Ghost in The Shell" film.. :-p

[@LogainAblar]

I agree with you 100%

[@vinesauceobscurities]

+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.

[@derBene]

Sadly creating art and meeting a lowest common denominator don't always fit together but that's how money is made.

[@PT94x]

The cyberpunk animes of the 80's and 90's pretty much predicted the world we're living in today.

[@a.thompson5518]

Sort of. Some of it yes but most of the technology today came from Star Trek

[@madkabal]

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.

[@michelveraliot]

@@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.

[@JuanJoseMárquez-b5j]

Because we live in a society

[@nononono3421]

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.

[@DamascusTest]

With Coronavirus, when i walk on the empty streets, this music plays into my head...

[@OmManislayqueenHum]

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

[@noble20xx56]

@@OmManislayqueenHum 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.

[@Wangan_W]

Should of done this back in 2020

[@joshbok8767]

Same here

[@isakjohansson7134]

@@noble20xx56 W6rld Ec6nomic F6rum and other clubs we've probably not heard of.

[@omgcandy16Kimicari0]

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.

[@Mehdi.Ouassou]

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.

[@tech83studio38]

I love the vibe of this masterpiece ..the soundtrack wow .

[@tamz2k5]

makes me feel weird and i like it but dont

[@bizophone]

I love everything about this scene. The music, the animation, the atmosphere.... it feels very real.

[@RDKelly12]

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.

[@alphadream953]

i watch this every few years and i feel different every time

[@LogainAblar]

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.

[@Cosmeputer]

For those who want to know, on the store "Lumière et ombre" in french means Light and shadow ...

[@mastermaniac1911]

I mistranslated it as "light in darkness." Close, I guess.

[@jasonsaunders3611]

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

[@odsts6658]

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

[@Ghostintheeshell]

That's me with ghost in the shell. I listen to making of a cyborg or the other varients of it from the soundtrack for hours on end.

[@yellow_sedai]

Same. Kenji Kawai is the best.

[@salokin3087]

Its been 28 years since this scene was crafted. What else compares?

[@Wolf10media]

The mood really feels unnatural indeed. Wow... I miss this era of anime so badly. This would be something I'd come home to from college, or work. Something I'd just so happened to spot on network cable one night. And Will stay in memory for all time.

[@nedible88]

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.

[@umevillage]

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.

[@carlosramon6102]

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.

[@234netklh27]

Carlos Ramon Well...to quote the Fallout series, "War...War never changes..."

[@Jump-Shack]

@@234netklh27 but war do change

[@madkabal]

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.

[@BizzLeVrai]

1:46 Lumiere et ombre. it explain the technicality of the scene. it is art.

[@chipwyck3104]

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

[@飛び付きマフラーホールド]

押井自身のノベライズだとここのシーンで「軍を展開した場合のメシの重要性と困難さ」を説明してて面白いw 1日５食（6食？）、弁当は冷めきってる、暖を取るためにホットの缶コーヒーを大量に消費する、などなど この非日常的な映像表現に対してのやたら即物的な解説にニヤリとしてしまった覚えがあるw

[@happyfistcutscrap]

I adore this film (and the score) so much.

[@peterking8085]

Thanks for uploading this. I saw this clip randomly, I think on TV, and it made me go find the film to watch the whole thing.

[@gogudelagaze1585]

I do wonder how Mamoru Oshii feels about the unjust peace most of us live in even now.

[@LifeSword3]

The original is so much better than the english dubbed version, the kids screaming while waving just break the whole immersion and magic of the scene.

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

That's early anime dubbing for you, they were just coming out of the era of dubbing for kids and kept that mentality longer than they should have

[@AlxBrb]

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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4aVgZ2napJ_e68

[@jainee4507]

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

[@alastairward2774]

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.

[@mcarroll4659]

Living through coronavirus in NYC brought me here....

[@buuuuuuurn-the-heretic]

Stop whining, you coward and learn some basic science

[@DOPEdwarf]

@@buuuuuuurn-the-heretic idiot

[@BadApple959]

押井さんはリアルな戦争を幻の現実の中に空いた穴のように表現したかったんだろうね

[@pyroromancer]

even in a state of war, normal life goes on.

[@BurlingtonNorthernRy]

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.

[@normieloser6969]

A little push was all it took to uncover the insecurities and shatter the stability. The "villain" of this film and his actions are well written.

[@user-ri5oc5rw5b]

I feel nostalgic

[@eggycat]

Just discovered Patlabor and Kenji Kawai. Amazing.

[@BrandonHilikus]

blxxp yes! one more fan of the underated patlabor franchise

[@Glitcher2000]

2:02 - "Is that a minigun on your hip or are you just happy to see me?"

[@ssushii7711]

This song feels like the early 2020's during first time I got out of the house and into the city; it was almost entirely empty I know it may be insensitive to say but, I sometimes wish to relive those days, its so weird

[@user-li7se1fp1t]

Great video!

[@silverfang1648]

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!

[@jeremydiaz9642]

This is Tom Clancy level animation right here.

[@peristrojka]

This movie is epic and the Kawai OST makes it even more epic.

[@LeolaTheElf]

This older, archaic technology is so cool to look at. Almost like an alien world…

[@enigma4430]

Signature Mamori Oshii

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

What is the Price of 'peace"? Peace is secured by the threat of violence. But peace for who, and at who's expense?

[@wesgriff1]

1:46 Is that a callback to Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer I see there?

[@pricklypear300]

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...

[@mr.russia2025]

Мелодия словно из Рая💖

[@eklektikTechno]

The music in this scene is phenomenal! , sadly you don’t see anime and music production like this anymore

[@ingwersengrady]

makes me wanna play Ace Combat 3.

[@rod226]

Dat music..

[@meegz149]

Your comment makes me anticipate the new one.

[@Naitoraven951]

Wasson_G This remember me "Quartz" from Go Shiina (AC3).

[@readordiefanatic]

Fuck..... this is so good.

[@kicksNCY]

magic!

[@paulstaker8861]

So this is like the ferry ride in Ghost in the Shell?

[@nicholascherry7083]

amazing

[@LordOfCinder85]

Looks nice how many parts are there? i would like to see them.

[@mrsupremegascon]

Its Paris during the last years basically

[@Orbot]

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! :-(

[@SHARPSPEED]

Everything here is good, but I'm just sitting here in awe wondering how the flying fuck the animators pulled the stuff at 1:22 off.

[@KingdomAwaits]

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.

[@kumachaninthesky]

それでも人は、目の前の生活をやめず、働く手を止めないっていうのが、怖い。 戦車が街を走ろうが、自衛隊員がいようが、まるで現実の危機ではなく、何かの フィクションでも見ているかのような目で、それをやりすごす。そこが、怖い。 でも、もしかしたら、そうでなければならないのかも知れない。 いま、平成の日本人は、この映画の公開当時よりも、危機感が強まっている気がする。 それって、悲しいことかもしれない。 平和ボケしていられるうちが、華。

[@daphne7784]

South Korea, now

[@olivere5497]

based korea

[@daphne7784]

It lasted so short 😂

[@olivere5497]

@daphne7784 it needs viagra

[@projoon9806]

정말 멋진......

[@Koniving]

Wonder if Patlabor would ever become a game, especially with the mechanics and styles from Patlabor 2 and onward?

[@burebaruta485]

As long as PGI dont make it i am ok with it ...

[@Koniving]

Damn true on that. Or the people that made Front Mission Evolved; they slaughtered the front mission franchise in the US.

[@burebaruta485]

I fell i love in front Mission 3 when i played it on Playstation 1,over 1000 hours i have on that game :P

[@Koniving]

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."

[@burebaruta485]

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.

[@bored1ca]

I prefer the original soundtrack over the remastered version. If it's not broken, why fix it?

[@blueskdragonFX]

@EAAFalkenauge there are 3 movies and a anime series.

[@BrandonHilikus]

existence

[@CyberLA_Rudy]

Martial law never looked so cool before lol

[@sf3testvids]

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

[@masamimashiko131]

2.26の時も、帝都は雪だった…

[@JaKlaro]

How can you make advertising isnt only for 1000+ youtubers?

[@黒猫じじ-d7m]

コロナの東京や

[@L30NHART]

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?

[@Blastaar7]

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.

[@MightyQuinn2021]

The first Ghost in the Shell movie has a break in the story as well. But I think Oshii does it even better here

[@Hardstyler2009Able]

Can I get the third movie on Blu Ray and German???

[@gtaclevelandcity]

This movie is like if Tom Clancy was born in Japan.

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

I'd say Mamoru Oshii is the Japanese Tom Clancy if he was more hyperpolitical rather than philosophical with still a bit of politics.

[@tengu190]

and 2 OVAs

[@SergeantPsycho]

0:11 I think I see characters from Jin-Roh getting off the train.

[@BaldNapoleon100]

Yeah I can see

[@Blastaar7]

I really prefer the original version of this movie.

[@NENE15592]

What is this anime about?

[@fukuro2520]

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

[@tychothefriendlymonolith]

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 :)

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

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.

[@SlyHikari03]

Silent hill.

[@suminntyu17]

いつかは来るであろう、未来に備えて・・・

[@austenkruse]

What depressing scenes heh...

[@mariuspoppFM]

That's their point

[@Einhander49]

@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.

[@csq530]

Can someone tell me whats the name of the song?

[@Unmei_Ka]

Patlabor 2 ost Unnatural City I or II.

[@bored1ca]

Unnatural City I

[@csq530]

Thanks!

[@moonon51]

Nissan reaction.

[@zazenbo]

I miss my wife

[@wolfensniper4012]

Rostov Now

[@sammerritt730]

Change the world my final message goodbye

[@Einhander49]

@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.

[@Vvanzayyy]

a lot advance and digging world realty behind. Japanese anime diffrent level.

[@Blastaar7]

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.

[@poter8498]

north korea be like

[@DarwinRojjo]

It was the first thing that came to my mind when I watched this

[@gathel8574]

North korea like what u dickhead

[@crunkaintdead7702]

Yeah but it's not exactly the same thing. Japan is a democracy, the army is NOT meant to be out on the streets

[@isakjohansson7134]

​@@crunkaintdead7702 No nation is a democracy in practice

[@kentallard8852]

"I staged terrorist attacks to prove the military would try to take over" - anime logic

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

take over and do what? pose for the media? Theyir communications went offline and then all of a sudden they're in a disarray. The attac8was staged to show how fragile is the peace being maintained by the government.

[@KingdomAwaits]

By the way, there's nothing unnatural about this... it is this current society structure that is unnatural.

[@Blastaar7]

I don't even count the third movie since is soo freaking boring. Plus it doesn't even focus on the patlabor characters.

[@The_Founder-000]

china be like

[@peristrojka]

This movie is epic and the Kawai OST makes it even more epic.