* 1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director

Examples include Oshii Mamoru ’ s 1984 animated film Beautiful Dreamer, which is based on an episode of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura ( 1978-1987 ) that depicts the baku as a tapir.

Mamoru Oshii released the internationally acclaimed philosophical science fiction action film Ghost in the Shell in 1996.

In 2004, Mamoru Oshii released the anime movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence which received critical praise around the world.

The manga was first adapted into a theatrical anime film adaptation in 1995, titled Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii.

The Wachowskis, makers of The Matrix trilogy, have commented on the influence of the first Ghost in the Shell film, directed by Mamoru Oshii, on The Matrix.

Mamoru Oshii directed both movies, which were adaptations of several chapters of the original manga put to film.

* Ghost in the Shell ( 1995 ) by Mamoru Oshii

* Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence ( 2004 ) by Mamoru Oshii

* Talking Head ( film ), a 1992 film by Mamoru Oshii

* The 2001 Mamoru Oshii movie " Avalon " ( アヴァロン ) is set in a bleak future, where the population is hooked on an immersive illegal virtual reality video game called Avalon.

** Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director

Therefore the first official OVA release to be billed as such was 1983's Dallos, directed by Mamoru Oshii and released by Bandai.

The first 106 episodes were directed by Mamoru Oshii and the remainder by Kazuo Yamazaki.

Urusei Yatsura: Only You was directed by Mamoru Oshii and began showing in Japanese cinemas on February 11, 1983.

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer was also directed by Mamoru Oshii and was released on February 11, 1984.

During this period several filmmakers became famous, especially Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii.

Hols is often seen as the first major break from the normal anime style and the beginning of a later movement of " auteuristic " or " progressive anime " which would eventually involve directors such as Hayao Miyazaki ( creator of Spirited Away ) and Mamoru Oshii.

Additionally, director Mamoru Oshii has referred to Bellmer's dolls as an inspiration for the film.

Mamoru Oshii ( 押井 守 Oshii Mamoru ; born August 8, 1951 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer.

As a student, Mamoru Oshii was fascinated by the film La jetée by Chris Marker.

In 1995, Mamoru Oshii released his landmark animated cyberpunk film, Ghost in the Shell, in Japan, the United States, and Europe.

In 2008, they unveiled two other TV series, Library War and Real Drive-again in collaboration with Masamune Shirow on the latter project-and released Mamoru Oshii's latest movie, The Sky Crawlers.

is a Japanese science fiction OVA released in 1983, directed by Mamoru Oshii and created by Oshii and Hisayuki Toriumi ( who also wrote the scripts with Oshii ).

Ikuhara's post-Utena works include the manga The World of S & M ( released in English as The World Exists for Me ), on which he collaborated with Chiho Saito ; the novel Schell Bullet, which he co-wrote with Mamoru Nagano ; and the Schell Bullet-based concept album Thanaphs 68.

The film is the third adaptation of Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos saga manga, Ken-Roh Densetsu, after The Red Spectacles released in 1987 and StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops released in 1991 in Japanese theaters.

Film poster of Mamoru Oshii's landmark film Ghost in the Shell ( film ) | Ghost in the Shell.

* Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg

* 1983 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor

In 1983, they cut ties with their production company and formed their own company φ-connection with Mamoru Tsuchiya, former member of Blue Film, as their manager.

* 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

Miyazaki came out of retirement following the sudden departure of original director Mamoru Hosoda.

* 1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese convicted murderer and rapist ( d. 2004 )

* 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship in Tokyo Bay.

On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

The third generation Forester was styled by Subaru Chief Designer Mamoru Ishii.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

* August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

Sailor Jupiter's rose-shaped earring is what reminds her of her devotion to Mamoru, and she must persist through a raging snowstorm to finally meet and save him from the queen.

He built his federation party around a number of former Minseito ( one of the two main prewar conservative parties ) politicians and control bureaucrats, and made Shigemitsu Mamoru, the former Foreign Minister, its nominal leader.

The surrender was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander, with representatives of each Allied nation, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu.