Maverick filmmaker Mamoru Oshii is the mastermind behind the original concept for this project, in collaboration with Production I.G - the team that brought you cutting edge anime such asPatlabor: The Movie(1989),Patlabor: The Movie 2(1993),Ghost in the Shell(1995),Innocence(2004) andThe Sky...
Buzz has it that the Sky Crawlers is one of Mamoru Oshii's more accessible movies. Compared to his other works in recent years, it is certainly less cofoundingly referential than Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. This isn't AS wordy as some Oshii films - there's A Camus reference, A ...
but quit after just four days to join Osaka-based studio Anime R. He then moved to Production I.G in the studio's early days. A natural talent, he became one of Mamoru Oshii's favourite artists, serving as animation supervisor in the twoPatlabormovies (1989 and 1993), the groundbreaking...