With the rapid development of hyper technology came...
humanoid construction machines
called "Labors".
However, this gave rise to "Labor Crimes",
a new threat to society.
The Metropolitan Police formed a special vehicles section
to combat these crimes.
Known as the SV2, Patrol Labor units.
The beginning of "Patlabor".
And time has passed since. Now it is year 2013, Tokyo.
SV2 Division 1 has disbanded.
Division 2 is barely surviving.
With the matter of survival in question, this is the story of...
struggling days of the third generation
1700. To the second division, change the shift.
Team 1 to semi—standby and team 2 to direct standby.
We are off duty now.
— BYE — Have a nice day.
Stop doing that.
Want my shirt? come and get it
Ouch!
You can only have your pajamas
I've said so many times.
Speak Japanese when fighting!
What are you doing?
I'm just...
I didn't wear it, but I thought it looks cool.
You wanna wear it?
This one. You wanna wear?
Well, it won't fit to my body proportion.
— Akira. — Yes.
I hate the person who wastes their time by having a delusion like...
If I can do this and do that.
You don't think life is
eternally interesting, do you?
What's that story about?
I'll be your company if you go drinking.
I don't wanna help your girl picking.
You feel jealous of me?
Sorry but I can't ask you out yet.
Ouch.
Get beaten at game parlor! But it hurts.
Don't look.
"The 3rd Champion: Akira"
Why do I have to feel jealous of him?
Play this if you want.
Thanks.
Move your ass.
Are you done?
It seems you don't know how to kill the time.
Isn't she Akira?
Please move.
You better not.
That old guy is devilishly strong.
Move your ass from there.
One more time, please.
As many times as you want...
until your coins run out.
One more time.
Again.
One more.
Again, please.
You are young but...
neither having talent nor money.
I see the loser's smile.
Girl,
your unyielding will to win makes your hands slow.
I suggest that you better spend your time doing something more fruitful.
Mister, who are you?
I am nobody.
Just a strong old guy.
I'd like you to do a favor.
— For me? — Yes. It's for you.
I really want you to do it.
So tell me.
We earn money from part-time jobs
and put that money into video games.
You may think we are prodigal sons
but our lives are tough.
Expenses are not small,
and we can't earn enough even if our game skills go up.
Moreover, we can't get part-time jobs lately.
We don't even have coins to play slot machines.
So I‘d like to ask you.
For poor boys like us, I'd like to ask you for...
some donations.
I understood what you said.
I understood it but...
why do I have to donate to you?
Come again?
You are a pro.
Yep, aren't you a pro?
I heard there was a time gamers earned enough by only playing games.
Like getting the cash prize at a contest, or hired as a test player by game makers...
or being critics.
There was a generation of people who act like kings with nice nicknames.
You are the remaining one of those, aren't you?
You made big bucks by playing games.
You earned easy money after all.
Thus you won't get divine punishment if you give some money to...
enthusiastic gamers like us.
If you give us coins in your pocket,
you won't get hurt.
I'm sorry but...
I'm moneyless.
Besides,
if I have money to give halfwits like you all...
I wasn‘t killing time there.
We are halfwits?
Yep.
You have no skills and know nothing how to live.
So you can't win.
Do you know how to call such guys?
What is it?
Losers.
Say again?
Superb!
Playing games is just killing time...
but the winning is a thought.
What you all don't have is...
that thought.
Thought for the winning?
1700. To the second division, change the shift.
Stealth bomber...
I'll be your company if you go drinking.
What with her?
I said don't look!
Ah, that strong old guy.
He was here yesterday and looked invincible.
Do you know who he is?
No.
Is he gone home today?
No one can match him here.
Maybe gone to other parlor.
— Do you Have any idea where? — No.
— Kitsune Soba. - OK.
Here you go.
What do you want?
Mister, who are you?
I've said it.
I am nobody.
Just a strong old guy.
I heard you are a cop.
How do you know that?
I didn't ask, but some loudmouth told me.
Hey cop.
I'll do games but not the gambling.
I'm not in that section.
I belong to Security Bureau and the crew of SV2...
Robot police, right?
It's called a Labor.
And you the robot police, what do you want from me?
Fight with me at video games.
Have tea with me?
Girl.
Here's your order.
I don't think I can win now...
You can't win now but...
someday you think you will.
So when that day comes, you wanna fight with me.
You can't win today but someday.
What makes you say so?
I'm sorry.
Why apologize?
Why?
If I really think what I said, I gave you some mouth.
Apology helps...
nothing.
Especially, you feel guilty for things you have done that were nothing.
It feels so bad.
Mister.
Who are you?
Wanna know?
Yes I do.
Miss, hot sandwich!
I got it.
It's been a long time since then.
I was a music school student in Paris.
Paris?
I wanted to become a top notch pianist...
so I tirelessly practiced day after day.
Chopin.
Debussy.
Chopin?
And...
that was the night of my first recital.
The lid of the piano...
fell to these hands.
It ruined three fingers.
After my dreams went south,
I barely can manage to live by playing games.
Is that...
a true story?
No. It's a movie story.
Irma Ia Douce
I guess that was Shirley MacLaine's line.
Wanna beat me?
Yes.
Girl, you are strong.
But you can't win the fight by just being strong.
To win...
I need a thought, right?
I see.
You‘ve seen that.
As a police officer, it was problematic.
I wanted to watch you more but...
I have nothing to say anymore.
What is the thought to win?
What do you think?
Overcoming myself?
I see.
Not to win against someone else, but yourself.
Do you like boxing?
If just watching.
Maybe a Japanese chess player would have that thought,
but boxers doesn't need to overcome oneself.
They only need to beat the opponent.
When you need to fight with an opponent,
you have no time to struggle within yourself.
There is no way you can win if you do two battles simultaneously.
While you are facing yourself,
you'll be beaten by your opponent.
If you say you wanna win stylishly,
wanna make a buck,
or, moreover, saying overcome yourself,
you'll lose even the game that you can win.
This is your hot sandwich.
I want you to tell me more.
Girl, you are greedy.
In one's life,
there are countless answers.
But you can only question once. Don't you know those words?
No I don't.
Life is...
nothing but one question,
it's February's seagull.
February's seagull?
Is that a movie title?
Don't be a fool!
I'm sorry.
Please continue your chatting.
Be ashamed of your ignorance.
Learn with sincerity.
Learn?
What and where?
There are numerous kinds of schools.
The place you go...
by riding a bicycle with textbooks is not the only school.
Sometimes reformatory,
bars,
or game parlors could be schools.
Wait mister.
I don't have time to waste but...
I'll wait one week.
Work hard, all right?
What's up? Ouch!
Didn't you hear something?
You‘re imagining things.
I'm sure I heard like screaming.
Don't be half awake in the morning. Go wash your face.
— I give It back to you. — Shut up.
— you stink of booze from morning. — Shut the hell up
I didn't do anything.
Yet I hear something.
You compiled tiredness.
No. It may be stress from divorce.
I'm sorry.
"We'll protect peace and smile. Come join the police force."
Isn't it coming near?
Do you wanna fight?
Stop it. Please.
Akira's beaten by old guy?
It was no contest.
I see. It must have shocked her hard.
What does it relate to her brutal behavior?
She will play a rematch against that old guy.
I heard there won't be a quiet passing, whoever wins.
But playing games has nothing to do
with her brutality.
She must be training for that fighting game.
Yuma.
You are Akira's Backup
Do something.
You tell me so...
If you let things be, it may cause troubles in your work.
It's only a problem for team 1 anyway.
— OK. I'll try to... - You will stop her?
With Akira's nature, it is impossible.
Then what you do?
We need a coach for her
to stop her indiscriminant training.
Luckily, we have one professional coach in SV2.
The SV2 Maintenance team proudly introduce...
the assistant karate master, Katsuno 4th Dan.
Hello.
Hi.
There is no first move in karate.
There is a saying the later move becomes...
Strike from later move, that is back hand blow.
At Eastern Front in WW2,
Manstein used this to get back at Kharkov.
I'll show you an example. Watch it carefully.
Making the first move is a taboo, but you shouldn't be defensive either.
You have to read the opponent's move.
Ouch.
This must be it.
Is it OK to leave things as is?
They are police officers, so it will mean something.
Not about that.
Allowing her to fight with some unknown old guy.
Doesn't it become a problem even if it's just a video game?
I think it's OK because it's just a video game.
It's over.
Left, left, left, right.
Quickly punch inside like gouging.
Hit much harder.
Five...
Six...
OK.
Next thing is this.
Put muscle to your tummy.
— Why did you dodge? — It was dangerous.
Don't move. Concentrate your mental state.
Don't be shaky.
— Can't do it. — Keep at it.
It attached to you.
Put more muscle on.
Stretch your arm!
Ready go! Grab it.
You‘ve thrown it away...
It's flown.
First of all, spinach.
Garlic. Whole piece.
Whole piece? Isn't it too much?
— Egg. - Aren't you listening?
Honey.
Milk.
Is this drinkable? And this.
— Lizard. — you put that in?
— Lastly, giant water bug. — Please don't.
— giant water bug. — Yeah, I got it.
Does the blender work?
How's the taste?
Right, left, right, left, left, left, left, right.
- Swing the arms! — Yes.
Right, left, left, left. You need to work on the left.
Right.
Right, left. Right, left.
Left, left, left, left.
Right, left.
Akira, look at this giant guy.
If the small guy wants to beat the bigger guy,
there is a cardinal rule that the small guy must be unhappier.
I am woman.
In the world where might rules, unhappiness is the strongest weapon.
Unhappiness?
Akira, are you unhappy now?
You must have something that makes you think you're unhappy.
Like humiliation during childhood that you can't tell others about.
I only have joyful memories.
How about a psychological trauma in youth?
Or you want to get back at the guy who dumped you?
— I was never dumped. — No. It can't be.
People always have a night of unhappy moments.
You need to imagine that.
Akira, you must have...
unhappy memories.
I don't have them.
Why?
Left, left, right, left, right.
Come on, hit harder. What's wrong?
Why do you give so much help to me?
Akira, I'm your Backup.
When my partner faces hardship, It's my duty to help.
Yuma.
Keep going.
Left, left, right, left, right.
Again. Left...
Revenge match of young fighting lady
This is the special event of SV2.
Akira the Iron Fist vs. Strong Old Guy.
This strong old guy is the only one
to beat invincible Akira.
This is the revenge match. 1000 yen for one betting.
Who wants to bet?
3000 to Akira.
7000 to the old guy.
The odds is 3—1, favor to old guy.
It is about time to close betting.
I question your personality as you turn your partner into a bet.
That's something you can't say.
Gambling is for losers.
— Losers? — Come on. It's just a game.
Life is just a game.
Why don't you bet some?
Life is just a game. But it is destructive.
So you'll be betting?
— 1000 yen for one betting. - I decline.
Finally the day of the fight came.
Izumino. I give you one piece of advice.
Anger is necessary for fighting,
but do not bring in hatred.
Why?
Aren't anger and hatred the same?
— No they are not. - How different?
Hatred is just the same thing as love.
Love?
Both hatred and love are born from the same relationship.
Someone who learns to hate could also learn to love sometimes.
It's so human and very fragile.
But anger is a much bigger force.
Love and hate only exist in between humans.
Anger is sometimes directed to god.
It is born from
the empty battle of humanity and nature.
That is the father of stern pathos.
Anger is the father of pathos.
Get angry, Izumino.
Angry iron fist.
I don't like women who have no luck.
Because there are no beautiful ones among them.
Like she has bags under her eyes,
or she carries children with unkempt hair.
And all unlucky women
have bad armpit smells.
They waste their lives by
imagining so many things.
Genuine power that supports women's lives exists
only in imagination.
Women who don't have imagination
can only become bored maids.
I do have imagination.
You only have delusion.
Imagination lets people fly into the sky,
but delusion only ruins them.
This letter is for you.
— For me? — Yes.
Cowardice is sincerity.
Sincerity is cowardice.
We are living in these kind of days.
I can't even deceive one girl...
So how can I deceive the country?
What is the thing lacking these days...
"Is not the winning but the thought for the winning."
And what is the thought for the winning is...
just not to lose.
So remember this well.
Never fight with anyone whom you once won against.
And never lose to the opponent
whom you beaten before.
Good bye girl.
Please do not recall me.
Because, to be recalled means
I must be forgotten.
This is the thought for winning? That old bastard!
Coward!
To be named coward is...
not decided by things you have done...
but...
by things you regret.
Girl.
Pay back our betting.
— I can't — Why?
Izumino won by default so she is the winner.
But I can't.
— you Have lost. — I can't pay back even if I want to.
Why the hell?
— I spent It all. — For what?
I bought a new plastic model.
Life is just a game.
But it‘s because life is just a game.
Certainly...
it is destructive.
The game is over.