Stray Dog Of Anime: The Films Of Mamoru Oshii

Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .

• • Author: B. Ruh
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Apr 02, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 331 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1137355670
• • ISBN-13: 9781137355676