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Sequel to Ghost In The Shell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-moving-pictures dept.

News for nerds writes "Innocence: Ghost In The Shell as the sequel to Ghost In The Shell, anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, has been announced. Due out in spring of 2004 in Japan, with Mamoru Oshii as screenplay/director, produced by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa of Production I.G, and co-produced by(!) Studio GHIBLI."

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  1. About the director by SteweyGriffin · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mamoru Oshii is the director of Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Angel's Egg, both Patlabor movies, and Ghost in the Shell and its sequel (mentioned in this article).

    He was born in the early 1950s and Oshii is considered one of the leading directors of the younger generation.

    I personally feel that Oshii's movies are darker and more cynical than Miyazaki's, yet Oshii and Miyazaki are good friends. Oshii has been offered a director's job at Ghibli several times, but the projects were never realized.

  2. Oh man, I've been waiting for this by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 5, Informative

    For some time now! Behold and drool over another preview/interview.

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  3. Various quotes, links about Ishikawa by SteweyGriffin · · Score: 5, Informative

    "In the Japanese animation industry, there are three types of producers: (1) the executive producer, who collects funds for the production; (2) the line producer, who manages the production; and (3) the producer who plans the production. I do all three of those roles. I try to train the young people at I.G. who want to become producers in the same way: to manage all three categories. This production method is one strong point about Production I.G., and helps explain why we have been able to last this long while targeting solely the Japanese market."

    Ishikawa's production company: [link]

    "I definitely see the American market as part of my future. The Japanese animated films that are most commercially successful are the ones that are targeted toward the U.S. and other English-speaking territories. Seventy to eighty percent of non-Japanese profit comes from English language sales."

    Ishikawa's "Blood: The Last Vampire", which would've won an award but wasn't longer than the required 70 minutes, so it was ineligible. [link]

    From a question & answer session:
    Q: Would it be a fair prediction that your next feature will be 70 minutes or longer?
    A: (laughing) Yes. The Academy, you know...

  4. i do hope.. by mj_sf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I do hope they include or make references to the Fuchikoma's (robotic support vehicles similar in appearence to spiders with a semi-collective AI for those who havent read the manga) in this sequel, as for someone who has read the manga cover to cover, GITS was, although extremely impressive in a technical sence, a slight let down that certain key features of the original storyline had been cut / significantly altered for the anime. I have not read any of GITS 2 - Man Machine Interface, so this may be incorrect (ie. fuchikomas not featuring in it atall) but even if it is just a small reference, it would add a certain character that the first GITS anime significantly lacked.

    For me, the only characters with even the slightest hint of depth were kusanagi and Batou. The other characters just seemed fairly hollow, which was unfortunate. Personally i would have loved to have seen the original manga turned into a series (even if it had to be as short as Macross Plus 1-3) first as apposed to a fairly mixed up film. As /. reported quite a while back, GITS is being made into a series by the same production house as this release.

    Heres hoping its worth it!

  5. I need a new job by krray · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sitting here initially thinking, "Ghost in Shell" -- hhmmm view a PDF in tcsh?

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