Patlabor: The Movie is currently available on home video from Sentai Filmworks as part of the Patlabor The Mobile Police Ultimate Collection Blu-Ray set, which is released in the United States by their Maiden Japan imprint.
As a result, Patlabor: The Movie feels powerfully relevant, even thirty years after its initial publication.
But despite leaning heavily on the aesthetics of these war-machines, Oshii maintains very humanist sensibilities, and Patlabor: The Movie views authority through an extremely skeptical lens.