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
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
Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai
2009 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan
Direction Mizuho Nishikubo
5.3
65 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.
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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.
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