Screenplay: Mamoru Oshii

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mamoru Oshii. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

2004 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot Batou is a living cyborg. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman....

7.2

8K votes

7.2

8K votes

Angel's Egg

1985 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

1998 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroyuki Okiura

Plot Ten years after the end of World War II; anti-terror policeman Fuse gets suspended from service after the suicide by self-detonation of a young terrorist girl during an operation, as...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer

1984 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot Lum is a cheerful alien who now lives with her human fiancée, Ataru and her goods friends on earth. The night before the school festival, the world begins to change,...

6.5

159 votes

6.5

159 votes

Urusei Yatsura Movie 1: Only You

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot When everyone in town recieves invitations to Ataru's wedding, they are shocked to see that his alien sweetheart Lum is not the bride. Eventually they learn that when Ataru was...

6.4

86 votes

6.4

86 votes

Talking Head

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Cast Shigeru Chiba · Tomoko Ishimura · Yoshikazu Fujiki · Keishi Hunt

Plot In legendary director Mamoru Oshii's TALKING HEADS, the director of the most-talked about anime movie of the year disappears, and the studio desperately searches for his replacement. However, they soon...

6.1

46 votes

6.1

46 votes

Twilight Q

1987 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii · Tomomi Mochizuki

Plot {Part 1: Reflection} Mayumi is diving in the ocean, when she makes a strange find: a camera. Stranger still, the film in the camera holds a picture of herself on...

6.0

25 votes

6.0

25 votes

The Red Spectacles

1987 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Cast Shigeru Chiba · Machiko Washio · Hideyuki Tanaka · Eisei Amamoto

Plot In MAMORU OSHII'S - RED SPECTACLES, the Metropolitan Police were forced to create a police state to control the chaos that was developing around them. However, those in the elite...

5.7

45 votes

5.7

45 votes

Je t'aime (S)

2010 · Movie · 12 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

5.6

265 votes

5.6

265 votes

Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops

1991 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Cast Shigeru Chiba · Yoshikazu Fujiki · Takashi Matsuyama · Eaching Sue

Plot To combat the rising crime rate, the Japanese Government created the Kerberos (Hellhounds) Police Force. Infused with a strong sense of justice, these "super cops" set out to tame the...

5.5

38 votes

5.5

38 votes

Open Your Mind

2005 · Movie · 36 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot Mezame no hakobune (めざめの方舟?, lit. "Ark of Awakening"), aka Open Your Mind (international title), is a 2005, three-act musical drama presented on a multidisplay IMAX-like theme theater and mixing CG-animated...

5.5

70 votes

5.5

70 votes

5.3

65 votes

Ani*Kuri15 (TV Miniseries)

2007 · Series · 18 min. · Japan

Direction Shinji Kimura · Akemi Hayashi · Yasufumi Soejima · Osamu Kobayashi

Plot Ani-Kuri 15 is a series of fifteen 1-minute shorts that aired on the Japanese TV station, NHK between May 2007 and 2008. Intended as companion pieces to the Ani*Kuri program...

5.1

385 votes

5.1

385 votes

Illang: The Wolf Brigade

2018 · Movie · 139 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Jee-woon

Cast Gang Dong-won · Han Hyo-joo · Jeong Woo-seong · Kim Mu-yeol

Plot Based on a Japanese anime "The Wolf Brigade" (1999) of Mamoru Oshii. Set in the distant future where both North and South Koreas agree to establish a joint government, which...

5.0

762 votes

5.0

762 votes

The Last Druid: Garm Wars

2014 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Cast Lance Henriksen · Kevin Durand · Mélanie St-Pierre · Summer H. Howell

Plot Taking place in a world of war known as Annwn, Garm Wars sets the scene with clone soldiers from 3 military tribes, in a bloody and perpetual battle of air,...

4.9

51 votes

4.9

51 votes

Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters

2006 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Cast Mako Hyôdô · Mitsuhisa Ishikawa · Kenji Kawai · Toshio Suzuki

Plot A mockumentary bringing a critical history of Japan from the post-war until today, summed up in a prestigious collage of innovative animation techniques, courtesy of Mamoru Oshii, mythical creator of...

4.8

26 votes

4.8

26 votes

Assault Girls

2009 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Cast Yoshikazu Fujiki · Rinko Kikuchi · Meisa Kuroki · Hinako Saeki

Plot In the aftermath of a global thermonuclear war three battle tested women wage war in a virtual video game against giant mutant sand whales.

3.9

83 votes

3.9

83 votes

Project Mermaid

2007 · Movie · 1 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot A fish turns into a mermaid who swims out into post-apocalyptic city.

3.5

326 votes

3.5

326 votes

Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! (TV Miniseries)

1989 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Plot TV Miniserie (1989-1990). 6 episodes.

Not rated

Not rated

In the Aftermath

1988 · Movie · 72 min. · Australia

Direction Carl Colpaert

Cast Tony Markes · Rainbow Dolan · Kenneth McCabe · Kurtiss J. Tews

Plot On a post-apocalyptic Earth, an angel descends to help the survivors.

Not rated

Not rated