Word: kenichi
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METROPOLIS. Director Rin Taro worked with Osamu Tezuka to adapt Tezuka’s 1949 manga, a riff on Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi classic. This adaptation is an anime film that follows Kenichi (Kei Kobayashi) and his uncle, Shunsaku Ban (Kousei Tomita), in a futuristic city in which robots do most of the work, but must live underground. Shunsaku is a detective on the trail of a fugitive who is creating a robot named Tima (Yuka Imoto), but soon Kenichi and Tima are on the run together. Since Tima is unaware of her purpose...
Tokyo seemed hurt and disgusted by the recall affair. Bridgestone bought Firestone in 1988, a decade after the American firm nearly sank in the aftermath of another recall--a record 14.5 million tires in 1978. "We spent the past 10 years trying to rebuild the image of Firestone," says Kenichi Kitawaki, Bridgestone's p.r. manager. "Then this happened...