Mamoru Oshii

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Mamoru Oshii (born 8 August 1951) is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and screenwriter.

Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2: The Movie.

He also holds the distinction of having created the first ever OVA, Dallos.

For his work, Oshii has received and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or and Golden Lion.

He has also attracted praise from international directors such as James Cameron and The Wachowskis.

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Career

Mamoru Oshii was captivated by Chris Marker's film La Jetée as a student. Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jean-Pierre Melville all watched European cinema, including films by Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and Jean-Pierre Melville. These filmmakers, as well as Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, will all be influential for Oshii's own cinematic career. He was also influenced by his father, who was a cinephile.

He graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University in 1976. He joined Tatsunoko Productions in 2005 and worked on his first anime as a storyboard artist on Ippatsu Kanta-kun. During this period, Oshii appeared on several anime as a storyboard artist, the bulk of which were part of Tatsunoko's Time Bokan television show. He went to Studio Pierrot under the direction of his mentor, Hisayuki Toriumi in 1980.

Mamoru Oshii's work as the animator and storyboard artist of the animated Urusei Yatsura TV series brought him right into the spotlight. Urusei Yatsura Films (1983) and Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984), following the company's success. The first film, although an original tale, maintained a lot in the tone of the series. Beautiful Dreamer was also written by Oshii, without Takahashi's approval, and it was a major departure and an early example of his later contemporary style. Beautiful Dreamer is also known for inventing with techniques like a time loop, where a high-school class recalls the same day over and over again, as well as dreams and reality manipulation.

Oshii took on independent study and directed the first OVA, Dallos, in 1983, despite his studio Pierrot's involvement. Oshii left Studio Pierrot in 1984. Around this time, Oshii was hired to write a column in Animage magazine in December 1984. However, his plan was very eccentric, with Yomiuri TV and Toho's producers opposing his film's vision, saying it "made no sense." The film had been widely distributed with Oshii's name attached to it, and without his permission, they were unable to make the film and it was cancelled. In later films, including Angel's Egg, Ghost in the Shell, and numerous Patlabor films, he would go on to reuse themes and concepts he had come up with for the film. 009 RE:CYBORG, which was hosted by Kenji Kamiyama, a student of Oshii, was also heavily influenced by Oshii's Lupin's theories, reusing some of the plot elements.

Oshii wrote and directed Angel's Egg (1985), a strange film full of Biblical symbolism starring Yoshitaka Amano's character design. Toshio Suzuki, a film maker, later founded Studio Ghibli in Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Miyazaki and Takahata began collaborating with Mamoru Oshii on their next film, Anchor, following the film's launch. When the trio had artistic differences, the film was cancelled early in the initial planning process. Despite their differences, Toshio Suzuki and Studio Ghibli would later assist Oshii with their production of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004). Oshii's skepticism about each of Takahata and Miyazaki's films has stayed to this day. Despite being skeptical of Miyazaki's treatment of his employees, he has also stated that if both Miyazaki and Takahata stopped making films, it would be "absurd" and "it would be boring."

Oshii was invited by his colleague Kazunori Itu to join Headgear as a director in the late 1980s. The team was made up of Kazunori It (screenwriter), Masami Yuki (manga artist), Yutaka Izubuchi (mechanical designer), Akemi Takada (character designer), and Mamoru Oshii (director). They were both responsible for the Patlabor TV series, OVA, and films.

For the first time in Patlabor's film series, Oshii ventured into live-action, releasing his first non-animated film, The Red Spectacles (1987). Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991), Oshii's current Kerberos Saga, inspired another live action film titled Stray Dog. Talking Head (1992), Stray Dog Oshii's second live-action film, is a strange look at his film debut.

In 1995, Mamoru Oshii released Ghost in the Shell, Japan's first animated cyberpunk film, as well as Europe. In 1996, the first anime video to do so topped the Billboard video charts. The film, which was concerned about a female cyborg in dire need of a soul, was a critical success and is widely considered to be a masterpiece and anime classic. In addition, Oshii said that making Ghost in the Shell enabled him to "finally get over Lupin" (however, he continued to reuse themes and concepts from the film in later works).

With the Japanese-Polish film Avalon (2001), which was selected for an out-of-competition screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Oshii returned to live action after a five-year absence from directing to work on other projects. Ghost in the Shell, the long-awaited sequel to Ghost in the Shell, was his next animated feature film, Innocence. Batou is the protagonist of a four-year film about the actor as he investigates a string of horrific murders while still struggling to deal with his deteriorating humanity. Despite mixed reviews, Innocence was chosen to compete for the coveted Palme d'Or award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, making it the first (and so far) anime to be so coveted.

Oshii had hoped to be one of The Animatrix's directors, but he was unable to participate due to his involvement in Innocence. Following Innocence, Oshii had also considered directing a segment for the anthology film Paris, but ultimately turned down the opportunity. In 2005, there were also talks of a Kenta Fukasaku and Oshii cooperation. It was confirmed that Oshii would write the script for a film called Elle is Burning as well as provide CGI assistance, while Fukasaku would direct. Despite Oshii's script, the film was ultimately shelved due to other reasons, such as the large budget it would need.

The Sky Crawlers (2008), Oshii's next film, competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Oshii, a Sky Crawlers alumnate, wrote the screenplay to the Production I.G film Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai, which has been dubbed as the first ever anime film.

He wrote and produced Assault Girls, a live-action film that was produced in 2009, and he also served as creative producer for the Production I.G-produced segment of Halo Legends. In 2010, Oshii announced that his next film would be a remake of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin-28 manga. The Tetsujin-28 project turned out to be a live action film called '28 1/2'.

In 2012, Oshii revealed that he was working on a new live-action film. Garm Wars: The Last Druid will be written and directed by Robert Gordon. In September 2014, the film's trailer was released, and the premiere screening took place the following month at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival.

He followed T'ky Mukokuseki Shjo, a suspense thriller that was released in July 2015.

Sand Whale and Me, a live action micro-series directed by Oshii, premiered in Toonami in March 2017.

In June 2019, Oshii introduced Vladlove, a comedies collection he referred to as a "girl-meets-girl story" about a vampire. Since Oshii is funded by a single investor, real estate firm Ichigo Inc., the initiative also departs from the Japanese anime world's production committee system.

Oshii and his dog, a mutt named Daniel, lived in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, as of 2009.

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