Mamoru Oshii

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Mamoru Oshii ( Japanese 押 井 守 , Oshii Mamoru ; born August 8, 1951 in Ōta , Tokyo , Japan ) is a Japanese director and writer . He gained international fame primarily through the anime Ghost in the Shell . But also real films like Avalon - Game for Your Life , The Red Spectacles and the manga Kerberos Panzer Cops come from his pen.

style

Mamoru Oshii's films are more thoughtful than entertaining and show a sometimes very cynical worldview. This is where his work differs fundamentally from that of older directors like Hayao Miyazaki and others. Long shots with almost no action, which are interrupted by very fast action scenes, are characteristic.

The artistic style of Mamoru Oshii is shaped by the influences of the 1970s. His figures seem more realistic, he does without the heavy exaggeration of the eyes and gives each figure an individual look. Elaborate, very detailed and above all non-static backgrounds are combined with relatively dynamic foreground characters. The background is often stretched or compressed while the acting person speaks, whereby the spoken word is thematically reinforced by the graphics. The action is driven by dialogues, action scenes tend to take a back seat.

Together with Hisayuki Toriumi , he created the first original video animation with Dallos in 1983 .

The Japanese filmmaker competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 with Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence . In 2008 he received an invitation to compete at the 65th Venice Film Festival for The Sky Crawlers . After a creative break in 2010, he has been working mainly for real films since 2014.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Brian Ruh: Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2004, ISBN 1-4039-6334-7
  • Benedict Marko: Visual labyrinths. The image of the city in the Oshii Mamorus cinema , in: Stranger Worlds. Paths and Spaces of Fantasticism in the 21st Century , edited by Lars Schmeink and Hans-Harald Müller, DeGruyter Verlag, Berlin and Boston 2012, pp. 163–186. ISBN 978-3-11-027655-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilles Poitras: Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture . In: Mark W. MacWilliams (Ed.): Japanese Visual Culture. Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime . ME Sharpe, Armonk 2008, ISBN 978-0-7656-1602-9 , pp. 54 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ cf. Vivarelli, Nick: Venice Film Festival announces Slate ( Memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), July 29, 2008 (accessed July 30, 2008)

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personal data
SURNAME Oshii, Mamoru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 押 井 守 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese director
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōta , Tokyo , Japan