Metropolis - Fine Art Print

Illustration format: 70 x 50 cm (or 27,56 x 19,68 inches), offset printing on high quality paper: Magno Volume 200 g/m².

The contexte

This illustration shows the production imageboard, used during pre-production to direct the artwork of the film Metropolis, beautifully written by Katsuhiro Otomo and directed by Rintarō. The poster represents the "Zone -1", the first underground level, a space for robots only.

This is one of the last scenes of the movie, featuring the illustration:

The artist - Shuichi Kusamori

(Shuichi Kusamori in his studio - photo © Yasuyuki Takagi, 2023)

Shuichi Kusamori is a Japanese art director and background illustrator, and was the background artist for Ghost in the Shell. He was also artistic director on the second instalment, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence in 2004, and other well-known Japanese anime licences such as Metropolis and the Psycho-Pass series.

Metropolis - The story

The poster