Mamoru Oshii Cinema Trilogy - The Red Spectacles / Stray Dog / Talking Head (Sub.DVD)

Release date: 2006-11-28
Suggested retail price: $39.98
Age rating: 16+

SKU: 80270
UPC: 669198802706 669198802706
ISBN-10: 1594097364 1594097364
ISBN-13: 9781594097362 9781594097362

Description:
Hailed as one of the most prolific creative f-rces in the anime industry, Mamoru Oshii has helmed some of Japan's most celebrated motion pictures, including the internationally acclaimed movies Ghosts in a Shell, Patlabor, and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. Availbale now for the first time in one afforadable set are three of Oshii's early live action theatrical features: Talking Head, Stray Dog and Red Spectacles. Delving into the darkest depths of humanity, these tales chronicle the lives of men who are forever changed by deceit, betrayal, and murder; men who are f-rced to answer the question: is it better to live as a wolf? Or die as a sheep? Prepare yourself for a cinematic collection that delves into the mind of the legendary Mamoru Oshii.

Talking Head
It's nearly time for the debut of the most anticipated anime movie of the year, Talking Head. There's just a few minor problems: the director has disappeared, and the movie isn't even started. Desperate to meet their deadline, the studio hires a "migrant technical director" to fill for the missing director. But there's more going on here than just slipping deadlines. One by one, the staff is being murdered, and it's only a matter of time before the new director's next on the list. Explore the world of anime from a completly new angle!

Stray Dog
The Metropolitan Police's ultimate crime-fighting unit was an elite squad of men and women known as the Kerberos. A riot and uprising ensues when the unit refuses to acknowledge orders from government officials to disband. At the center of the riot is the leader of the Kerberos squad, Kouichi Todome who escpes after the fighting. Three years later, Inui is released from prison. A member of the Kerberos squad who served jail time for his participation in the riot, he wants nothing more to find his former master. However, the trail to Kouichi is a twisted one, involving a strange woman and a new and unimagined lifestyle. But when he finally finds him, he realizes that, instead of following his own path, he was following the orders of another.

The Red Spectacles
As the world decayed into chaos, the Metropolitan Police had no choice but to fight back and create and elite police unit known as Kerberos...the Watchdogs of Hell. Over time, the zeal of the police f-rce soon transformed into actions of cruelty and corruption. However, three of the elite rebelled against the system, but only detective Koichi Todome escaped. Several years later, he has now returned home. But why? What is left for him in this city that continues to decay? Kouichi must now determine who is friend and who is foe as he attempts to unravel what happened after he left.

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