Mamoru Oshii (押井守) is a Japanese film director best known for philosophically minded animated films such as Ghost In The Shell.

Reviews emphasize Oshii's interest in philosophical, dreamlike, and often hermetic themes (dream vs reality, religious symbolism, dystopia). He directed films based on Urusei Yatsura (including Only You and Beautiful Dreamer) and collaborated with Yoshitaka Amano on Tenshi no Tamago. His work is noted for visual ambition, slow meditative pacing, and striking soundtracks.

DeBaser reviews of Mamoru Oshii emphasize his philosophically dense, visual and dreamlike approach to animation. Critics highlight recurring themes such as cyberpunk, dystopia, and the boundary between dream and reality. Ghost In The Shell is noted for its cybernetic and Orwellian concerns; Tenshi no Tamago and Lamù films are praised for their hermetic and dreamlike qualities. The Sky Crawlers is described as a cold, melancholic anti-militarist fable.

For:Fans of thoughtful, philosophical animation, cyberpunk, and auteur anime.

 A world perpetually covered by clouds. A soldier with a cruciform weapon. An enigmatic girl wandering in a desolate and lifeless landscape, with long white hair and carrying an egg to which she seems very attached.

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 "Ghost in the shell" is born from a strongly Orwellian cyberpunk concept which, after 2001 and Neuromancer, completes the circle of interpretations on the immeasurable conflict between man and machine; that is, the first (see Major Kusanagi) in fervent search of the sidereal expansion of one’s self, and the second (project 2501) being "the perfect cognitive extension": the so-called creativity within calculation - and here intervenes the strong comparison with Hal 9000 of which there is a strong vocal resemblance - which pushes to repudiate the algorithmic malleability inherent in the computer [by its very creators, in this case the corrupt Section 6] as a bug, and as is evident from the vision, forced to find a volatile physical universe (birth – life – death – reproduction) to be able to imprint tangibly and not just psycho-cybernetically its own creative coercion.

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 Every day is the same. Spent in a gray and sterile atmosphere.

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