people: Mamoru Oshii
2017
'Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence': Farewell, My Lovely February 22, 2017
Everything that was both grand and frustrating about Oshii's original 'Ghost In The Shell' film is redoubled in its follow-up, a visionary work that neglects to give its characters their own voices
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2016
Anime Roundup: July 29, 2016 July 29, 2016
Massive reissues of 'Ghost in the Shell' and 'AKIRA' manga for 2017, 'Bleach' finally set to conclude; 'Macross' shows up on Amazon Prime.
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'Garm Wars: The Last Druid': History, And Oshii, Repeating Themselves March 24, 2016
Mamoru Oshii's live-action project is a sad misfire -- ponderous, pretentious, and worst of all, nothing he hasn't done before (and done better, too)
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2015
'Patlabor: The Movie': A Lesser Oshii's Labors May 23, 2015
Before Mamoru Oshii bent our minds with the likes of 'Ghost in the Shell', he tickled our ribs with this lively entry in the action-comedy mecha series
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'Seraphim: 266613336 Wings': Oshii And Kon's Fragment February 24, 2015
An unfinished but tantalizing collaboration between two of anime (and manga's) most idiosyncratic creative personalities, Satoshi Kon and Mamoru Oshii, this book inspires a close reading -- and no end of wonder about where one man's imagination began and the other one's ended
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'Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade': I Therefore Am No Beast February 09, 2015
The best Mamoru Oshii film that Oshii never directed remains affecting and relevant fifteen years later
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2014
'Ghost in the Shell': The Dreaming Machine September 26, 2014
Twenty-five years on, one of anime's seminal groundbreakers remains as alluring, intriguing, confounding, and problematic as ever
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2013
'Angel's Egg': Mood Indigo December 01, 2013
Mamoru Oshii's enigmatic meditation on faith is an emotional work, not just an intellectual one
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