Patlabor: The Movie[a] is a 1989 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Oshii and written by Kazunori Itō, with an original story by Headgear.

The largest construction site is the Ark, a huge man-made island that serves at the Project's nerve center and chief Labor[b] manufacturing facility.

As Division II goes out on the field, team commander Captain Gotoh, Sgt Asuma Shinohara, and mechanic Shige Shiba work with police Detective Matsui to find further leads on the case.

To SV2 pilot Noa Izumi's relief, no copies of the software were installed in Division II's AV98 Ingram police Labors.

Gotoh discreetly gets clearance from the TMPD leadership to destroy the Ark as Shige tries to dig up more evidence of Hoba's guilt to justify the operation.

Ingram pilots Noa and Ohta, plus Kanuka in a hijacked AV-X0 TYPE-0[3] police Labor prototype, buys time for Hiromi, Asuma and Shinshi to break into the control room and activate the Ark's self-destruct sequence.

Trapped by the TYPE-0 in one of the last remaining ledges, Noa climbs out of her damaged Ingram and fires her shotgun into the Labor’s S-RAM[4] system to finally shut it down.

Oshii also wanted to reuse part of the cancelled film's ending, but was stopped by other staff members such as Izubuchi.