Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer.
30 Facts About Mamoru Oshii
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Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Angel's Egg, Patlabor 2: The Movie, and Ghost in the Shell.
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Mamoru Oshii holds the distinction of having created the first ever OVA, Dallos.
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Mamoru Oshii has attracted praise from many directors, including James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and The Wachowskis, especially for his work on Ghost in the Shell.
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Mamoru Oshii was influenced by his father, who was a cinephile.
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Beautiful Dreamer was written by Mamoru Oshii with no consultation from Takahashi and was a significant departure and an early example of his contemporary style.
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Around this time, Mamoru Oshii was hired to direct a movie for Lupin the Third for summer 1985, for which he started writing a column in Animage magazine in December 1984.
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The film had been widely advertised with Mamoru Oshii's name attached to it, and with the project based around him, they could not make the film without his proposal getting approved, and it was cancelled.
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In 1995, Mamoru Oshii released his landmark animated cyberpunk film, Ghost in the Shell, in Japan, the United States, and Europe.
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Additionally, Mamoru Oshii said that creating Ghost in the Shell allowed him to "finally get over Lupin".
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Mamoru Oshii was approached to be one of the directors of The Animatrix, but he was unable to participate because of his work in Innocence.
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In 2010, Mamoru Oshii announced his next film will be an adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin-28 manga.
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In 2012, Mamoru Oshii announced that he was working on a new live-action film.
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Mamoru Oshii will be writing and directing the military science-fiction thriller Garm Wars: The Last Druid.
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Mamoru Oshii followed with the live-action film Tokyo Mukokuseki Shojo, a suspense thriller released in July 2015.
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In June 2019, Mamoru Oshii announced his newest project, Vladlove, a comedy series that he described as a "girl-meets-girl story" about a vampire.
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The project departs from the Japanese anime world's production committee system because Mamoru Oshii is backed by a single investor, real estate company Ichigo Inc.
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Mamoru Oshii is especially noted for how he significantly strays from the source material his films are based on, such as in his adaptations of Urusei Yatsura and Ghost in the Shell.
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Mamoru Oshii, in adapting the works created a slower and darker atmosphere especially noticeable in Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer.
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Mamoru Oshii wrote and directed several animated movies and live-action films based on his personal political views, influenced by the Anpo protests of the 1960s and 1970s in which he participated.
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Mamoru Oshii worked closely with screenwriter Kazunori Ito; they made five films together, beginning with The Red Spectacles and ending with Avalon.
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Kawai has composed most of the music in Mamoru Oshii's work, including ten of his feature films.
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The Kerberos saga is Mamoru Oshii's lifework, created in 1986.
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In 1987, Mamoru Oshii released The Red Spectacles, his first live-action feature and the first Kerberos saga film.
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The manga adaptation, Kerberos Panzer Cop, written by Mamoru Oshii and illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara, was serialized in 1988 until 1990.
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In 1999, the Mamoru Oshii-scripted Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, the anime feature film adaptation of the manga's first volume, was directed by Mamoru Oshii's collaborator Hiroyuki Okiura, and was released in International Film Festivals starting in France.
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Mamoru Oshii has since worked on a Seraphim Prologue, the Three Wise Men's Worship Volume, with illustrations by Katsuya Terada, released by Tokuma Shoten as another Ryu supplement.
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Mamoru Oshii wrote the screenplay of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade and is credited as a co-planner for Blood: The Last Vampire and Blood+.
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Mamoru Oshii wrote the first tie-in novel for the film entitled Blood: The Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts.
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In 2005 Mamoru Oshii served as supervisor for the Mobile Police Patlabor Comes Back: MiniPato video game.