Very quickly -- reader Raku sent me a link to an eiga.com article from last week about feature omnibus Kill (Kiru, 『斬〜KILL〜』) to confirm whether it mentioned the possibility of a feature version of Assault Girl. It does. Both Oshii Mamoru and star Kikuchi Rinko want to do it but the details aren't set. Oshii has already shot some location footage and should know by next May or June what the production's schedule will be.
I didn't see Kill, which closes with Oshii's own Assault Girl 2, nor did I see last year's The Women of Fast Food, which featured Oshii's original Assault Girl short. The whole concept does very little for me but I know a lot of people are excited by the prospect of 90+ minutes of Kikuchi in black leathers cutting down foes.
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It's amazing what you can do with google translate!
or it's amazing that I could understand it!
Doesn't going feature-length violate the whole concept originally behind "Kill" in the first place?
I think Oshii has found a muse in Kikuchi and come out of his "shell" in the past couple years.
In the article he says that filming live action is a question of being motivated by wanting to film the actress standing in front of him, otherwise he'd just do it in animation.
Kikuchi as a force that motivates, hardens and lengthens...oh yes.
what a mental image that last sentence gives...
Eeek... wasn't a fan of KILL, but Assault Girl was definitely the more interesting (and expensive?) of the four.
I have mixed feelings about Oshii's live-action stuff. I hated Avalon when I first saw it in the theaters many years ago, but then, I gradually felt that I wasn't being too fair with it, and I had a much shorter attention span then, hence the agony. Watching bits and pieces of Avalon again few days ago, I guess it was pretty decent, though it ain't, say, Sky Crawlers.
Assault Girl 2 is Oshii at his best: extremely slow, Van Goghish and highly allegoric....so I wouldn`t like so see the feature version of it....
Speaking of Oshii, the Shin-Bungeiza at Ikebukuro will be showing Ghost in the Shell 2.0, Innocence and the two Patlabor movies as an ooru-naito on January 24. I'm generally no fan of anime, but I do love Oshii's work and this looks like too good an excuse to miss to finally acquaint myself with both Shin-Bungeiza and Patlabor...
Good info, thanks. Here's the Google map w/street view.
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