Word: mamoru
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Japanese anime director Mamoru Oshii has been perfecting his vision for a couple of decades now. Like the Patlabor series of videos and films and the original Ghost in the Shell (1995), his new movie takes a story of tough detectives tracking sophisticated robots and dresses it in some gorgeously painterly images. As Sky Captain is set in the proto-past, Ghost 2 is set in the retro future--Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where...
...EXECUTED. MAMORU TAKUMA, 40; convicted last year of fatally stabbing eight schoolchildren in 2001; in Osaka. Takuma, who had a history of mental illness, went on a rampage at Ikeda Elementary School, attacking students and teachers in several classrooms. Unrepentant, he told the court he could have killed more children if he had targeted a nursery school instead...
...Among the Asian movies that competed: Mamoru Oshii's Japanese anim? Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Voluptuous futuristic graphics complement an astronomical robot body count. The film was produced by the same company that provided the gorgeously gruesome anim? sequence in Tarantino's Kill Bill...
...Japanese anime - made rare appearances at Cannes. Asia's strong showing included a mainstream Korean revenge-a-thon (Park Chan-wook's Old Boy), a Hong Kong media melodrama (Johnnie To's Breaking News) with an elaborate five-minute tracking shot of a shootout, and a gorgeous animated feature (Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) from the company that did the smashing anime segment of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1. You'd almost think the films had been chosen to suit the video-store tastes of this year's jury president ? Quentin Tarantino...
...SENTENCED. Mamoru Takuma, 39, to death by hanging for murdering eight schoolchildren and stabbing 13 students and two teachers in June 2001; in Osaka. Takuma's rampage, which he said was prompted by a hatred for his father and ex-wife, was Japan's worst ever school killing...