Decidedly darker than Tezuka’s manga, the movie is neither an adaptation of both that or Lang’s film but relatively an try to increase upon the inspiration of the two. Not to be perplexed with Fritz Lang’s landmark 1927 sci-fi movie of the exact same title, Metropolis is rather a unfastened adaptation encouraged by Osamu Tezuka’s 1949 manga, which alone was impressed in portion by Lang’s aforementioned opus.