Oshii Mamoru
OSHII Mamoru (1951, Japan) is a filmmaker, writer and director. He graduated in 1976 from an art academy in Tokyo. As a student, he was already making independent films. In 1980, he continued his studies at Studio Pierrot under Toriumi Nagayuki. As well as directing anime, Oshii has been involved with writing manga scripts and with cartoon strips and novels. He has been nominated for awards, including the Palme d’Or and the Leone d’Oro.
Filmography
(selection) Tenshi no tamago (1982), Urusei Yatsura 1: onri yu (1983), Urusei Yatsura 2: buytifuru dorima (1984), Kido keisatsu patoreba (1988), In the Aftermath (1988, co-dir.), Kido keisatsu patoreba: The Movie (1990), Kido keisatsu patoreba: The Movie 2 (1993), Kokaku kidotai/Ghost in the Shell (1995), Avalon (2000), Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (2006), Kiru (2008), Assault Girls (2009), Garm Wars: The Last Druid (2014), Nowhere Girl (2015), Vlad Love (2020, TV series), I Can’t Stop Biting You (2022)
Oshii Mamoru at IFFR
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I can’t stop biting you
Celebrated anime creator Oshii Mamoru’s delightfully goofy, live-action tale about four schoolgirls and a vampire.
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Jin-Roh
Directed by Oshii Mamoru’s protégé Okiura Hiroyuki, animation coordinator of Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh offers a unique mixture of retro-science fict
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Patlabor 2 the Movie
The Special Vehicle Division is a little older, but still essential when a series of terrorist events cause chaos in the government. Captain Goto sets
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Kokaku kidotai
The mysterious and elusive computer hacker The Puppet Master turns up in Hong Kong in 2029. Fine animation and complex social vision go hand in hand,
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The Labyrinth Files: File 538
Borges-inspired animation film about a sweaty private detective who, after a break-in, finds a computer file addressed to him comprising a story of th
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Angel’s Egg
A pregnant young woman roams through an empty, post-industrial medieval landscape. A young soldier, whose musket has the shape of a cross, gives the g
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Patlabor the Movie
Ambitious, obscure animation feature in which a scientist has developed a new system to control work robots, but leaves society after suicide with a n
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Kokaku kidotai
The mysterious and elusive computer hacker The Puppet Master turns up in Hong Kong in 2029. Fine animation and complex social vision go hand in hand,
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Avalon
Unlike his previous films, among which the renowned Ghost in the Shell, Avalon is not purely animation. Nevertheless it is again a idiosyncratic film