BACK 【ＩＮＴＲＯＤＵＣＴＩＯＮ】 'Ghost in the Shell' has been regarded as a symbol of "Japanimation". 'Jin-roh' is a masterpiece which is made by the same creators. It tells a sad romance in the parallel history of Japan created by Mamoru Oshii. When a little riding hood falls in love with a wolf, what will happen? Hiroyuki Okiura (director), well-known animator in 'Mobile Police Patlabor 2' and 'Ghost in the shell', is one of the next generation of creators recommended by Mamoru Oshii. For realistic visuals, he has stuck to celluloid animation, which is now old-fashioned thanks to digital animation. The animation is well depicted by manual celluloid animation. This film was at the 49th Berlin International film festival, and was theatricaly released in France in 1999. Now, the theatrical release in Japan is determined. 【ＳＴＯＲＹ】 Japan had been defeated utterly. A dozen years after, the army of occupation gone, Japan tried to develop its ecomomy and to reincarnate as an international country. The policy of development had increased out-of-work men, criminals and slums. 'Shudoken Chian Keibi Keisatsu Kiku'(Capital Police Department) aka Shutokei(CAPO) was established because of protesters who armed themselves. CAPO, as an important part of the police, are armed with 'Protect Gear' and 'machine guns'. The elite force, nicknamed 'Kerberos', had been wiping out guerillas. But their role was fading out on account of the development of economy. History sentenced them to termination. The film starts with 'Fuse', a soldier of CAPO when he met a guerilla girl... 【ＳＴＡＦＦ】 Original works / Script : Mamoru Oshii Director : Hiroyuki Okiura Performance director : Kenji Kamiyama Original Character Design : Hiroyuki Okiura Character Design / Animation Director : Tetsuya Nisio Animation vice-director : Toshiyuki Inoue Art director : Hiromasa Ogura Art degign : Takasi Watanabe Gun design : Katsuchika Kise Car design : Sadahumi Hiramatsu Color coordinator : Yumiko Katayama Photography director : Hisao Shirai Film editor : Shuichi Kakesu Music : Hajime Mijoguchi Sound director : Kajuhiro Wakabayashi Animation production : Production IG Producer : Atsusi Sukita, Hidekaju Teragawa Executive producer : Shigeru Watanabe, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Distributer : BANDAI VISUAL, ING 【ＣＡＳＴ】 Kajuzi Fuse : Yosikaju Fujiki Kei Amamiya : Sumi Mutoh Atsuhi Henmi (Fuse's friend) : Hiroyuki Kinoshita Bunmei Murota (Chief of CAPO Inteligence section) : Yukio Hiroda Hajime Handa (CAPO officer) : Yukihiro Yoshida Shiro Tatsumi : Ryuichi Horibe Nanami Agawa (First red riding hood) : Eri Sendai Isao Aniya (CAPO officer) : Kenji Nakagawa CAPO Officer : Tamio Ohki Hachiro Tobe (Fuse's instructor) / Narrator : Yoshisada Sakaguchi 【ＰＲＯＦＩＬＥ】 Original works / Script : Mamoru Oshii He was born on August 8th 1951 in Tokyo. He had worked for Tatsunoko Pro and Studio Pierrot and now is a freelancer. His major works are Urusei Yatsura 2 Beautiful Dreamer(1984), Mobile Police Patlabor the Movie(1989), (1995) and so on. His talents vary from animation, live-action movie, novel-writting, manga story writting, to games. He wrote the script of "Jin-roh" which is based on the manga Kenro Densetsu (literally: 'Legend of dogs and wolves') aka 'Hellhound : Kerberos Panzer Cops. In recent years, he has been directing a live-action movie, AVALON. He loves dogs. Director / Original Character Design : Hiroyuki Okiura He was born on Octover 13th 1966 in Osaka. He worked for Anime-R and now is a freelancer. The films for which he worked are 'AKIRA(1988)', 'Run! Mellos(1992)', 'Mobile Police Patlabor 2 the Movie(1993)' 'Memories(1995)' and so on. He was a character designer and animation director in 'Ghost in the shell(1995)' and is specially important in Oshii's recent works. He makes his debut as a director of 'Jin-roh' because Oshii admitted his talent. Eventually, Oshii commented "This film is well-made beyond the idea of its original creator", and it is held in high regard in various film festivals. Music : Hajime Mijoguchi He was born on April 23rd 1960 in Tokyo. He is a cellist and composer. Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts, he made his debut composing the album 'Half Inch Dessert(1986)'. He works for commercials, sound producing, motion-picture and pop-singers. The theme music of 'Sekaino Shamadokara' (literally: 'From the car window of world') is one of his famous works. Recently he has been composing for pop singer Huyuko Mita and working for the soap drama 'Beautiful life'. Yoshikaju Fujiki as Kazuki Fuse He was born on January 20th 1964 in Toyama. He is an actor. Because of his height of 190cm, he acted as regular role in "Kamen Riders(Mask Rider) - Black RX". He also appeared in action movies and V-cinema on account of his gun-firing experience. Director Mamoru Oshii made him the hero of the live action movie "Straydogs - Kerberos Panzer Cops", which has the same concept as "Jin-roh". But he was selected once more in a public audition unconnected to his previous role. What a coincidence! Sumi Muto as Kei Amamiya She was born on May 18th in Tokyo. She is an actress. She belonged to teather troupe Wakakusa from 1982 to 1992. Graduated from Waseda University, she had acted in "Tokiwachono Seishun(Spring time in Tokiwa mantion)"(1996) and other movies. She also works for commercials, soap dramas and narration. Recently, as a voice actress she worked for "Serial Experiment Lain"(TV Tokyo) as Chisa Yomoda. BACK