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Mamoru Oshii

Highest Rated: 100% Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (2021)

Lowest Rated: 52% Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1998)

Birthday: Aug 8, 1951

Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

Renaissance man of anime, Mamoru Oshii is respected around the world for his fantastic and philosophical storytelling and stylistic flair. As a young man, the future writer/director/animator was a fan of the filmmaking greats like Fellini, Godard, and Tarkovsky. After he graduating from Tokyo Gakugei University in 1976, he was hired as an artist at Tatsunoko Productions. There he worked on the "Urusei Yatsura" TV series, and went on to direct two "Urusei Yatsura" films in the early 1980s. Soon he worked on the very first original video animation (OVA), called "Dallos"; these are series made specially for release in home-video formats, and are a major part of the anime world today. Before long, Oshii was asked by his friend Kazunori Ito to join Headgear, where he went on to direct the "Patlabor" movies/series. Throughout the early 1990s, Oshii explored directing live action films, but it was in 1995 that he made his crowning achievement, a landmark in the world of anime: "Ghost in the Shell." The feature, a cyberpunk thriller, won Oshii worldwide acclaim and helped legitimize the anime genre in the eyes of the film world. After a five-year hiatus, he helmed the Japanese-Polish feature "Avalon," before taking on the hotly anticipated sequel "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence." Since then, he has directed a number of features, including 2008's "The Sky Crawlers," which competed for the Golden Lion in the Venice Film Festival.

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Highest rated movies

100% Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist
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100% 82% Ghost in the Shell 2.0
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100% 74% Rewind This!
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95% 89% Ghost in the Shell
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83% 73% Avalon
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80% 58% The Sky Crawlers
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65% 80% Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
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52% 79% Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
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54% The Amazing Lives of Fast Food Grifters
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Urusei Yatsura: Only You
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds Unknown (Character) - 2024
100% No Score Yet Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist Self,
Director
- 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Director,
Storyboard
- 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Next Generation: Patlabor - Gray Ghost Director,
Writer
- 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nowhere Girl Director - 2015
No Score Yet 43% Garm Wars: The Last Druid Director,
Screenwriter
- 2014
100% 74% Rewind This! Unknown (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 17% Assault Girls Director,
Screenwriter
- 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai Screenwriter,
Producer
- 2009
100% 82% Ghost in the Shell 2.0 Director - 2008
80% 58% The Sky Crawlers Director - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kill (Kiru) (Rebellion: The Killing Isle) Director - 2008
No Score Yet 54% The Amazing Lives of Fast Food Grifters Director,
Writer
- 2006
65% 80% Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Director,
Screenwriter
$924.5K 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Director - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Killers Director,
Screenwriter
- 2003
83% 73% Avalon Director - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Writer - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Writer - 1998
52% 79% Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Writer $94.6K 1998
95% 89% Ghost in the Shell Director - 1995
No Score Yet 84% Patlabor 2: The Movie Director - 1993
No Score Yet 74% Talking Head Director - 1992
No Score Yet 60% Stray Dog Director - 1991
No Score Yet 82% Patlabor: The Movie Director - 1989
No Score Yet 80% Angel's Egg Director,
Screenwriter
- 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Battle for Moon Station Dallos Director - 1985
No Score Yet 91% Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer Director,
Screenwriter
- 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Urusei Yatsura: Only You Director - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Urusei Yatsura: Only You Director - 1983