The Basset Hound: Mamoru Oshii Fansite

Welcome to The Basset Hound, a Mamoru Oshii fansite

Mamoru Oshii is along with Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Ôtomo the reference in terms of japanimation. He also is a great figure of cinema in a broad sense. Critically acclaimed worldwide for Ghost in the Shell, he managed to stay humble and faithful to his artistic aspirations. His work tackles profound themes such as the place of human beeings in front of the technologies they developed all that imprinted with melancholy, poetry and marked by the basset hound figure.
This site is designed by a fan for the fans, so the passions unleashed by Mamoru Oshii's films can find a place to meet.

News
3/01/2006

After one year, I've deleted the forum due to a too low frequentation. Hey The Basset Hound is one year old!

10/12/2005

A game based on the mini-pato universe is beeing made by IG. Mamoru Oshii is the supervisor of the project.
Mini-pato game at productionIG.com

18/11/2005

A page dedicated to Tachiguishi Retsuden has been added on the Production IG website. More info about the project can be found there and in english please.
Tachiguishi Retsuden at productionIG.com

11/11/2005

Mamoru Oshii is the script writer of Kenta Fukasaku's next film: Elle is Burning. He also said in an interview at the Tokyo Film Festival that after Tachiguishi Retsuden, he is going to go back to animation with a love story film. Oshii-San seems to be in a changing mood.

10/11/2005

The official website for Oshii's next film Tachiguishi Retsuden is online. Nothing much to see yet. Here it is: http://www.tachiguishi.com
It's a live-action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii's novel and it's going to cast Mako Hyôdô as lead role (she gave her voice to the girl in Tenshi no Tamago). The film will also feature unsuspected actors such as Kenji Kawai (Oshii's faithful music composer), Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (the I of Production IG), Katsuya Terada (character deisgner on Blood) and Toshio Suzuki (co-producer of Innocence for Studio Ghibli) and there is probably going to be more known faces. It goes without say, Tachiguishi Retsuden is a comedy...

7/09/2005

Dark Horse comics annouced the upcoming translation of Blood: Night of the Beast, the novel based on Blood the Last Vampire. More info.

19/05/2005

It seems Mamoru Oshii is no longer part of the Paris, Je t'aime omnibus project. At least, He is no longer mentioned on IMDB. If anyone has more info, please let me know. Thanks. And for something completely different, Mamoru Oshii is working as co-planner on the new Production I.G. TV series called Blood+.

18/05/2005

The website has been down for more than a week. I changed webhost after several issues with the former one. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

2/05/2005

I changed the forum sections to make it clearer (thanks Logic for the suggestion). I'm trying to find a way to animate the forum and help the community to grow. If you have any suggestion, please go to the dedicated section in the forum. Thanks.

10/02/2005

I just wrote a new paragraph about Ash's relation to the game in Avalon. Please check the section dedicated to Avalon if you wish to read it.

7/02/2005

I added a new element in the dog's paw section (chapter 4: visual representations) about one of Mamoru Oshii's way to shoot conversations.

2/01/2005

Thanks to MikE's translations, I could improve the bibliography section. I added a few books and a lot of covers. I also found the name of Mamoru Oshii's first film, the story told in photographs I talk about in the biography section. It seems to be called Okujô (On the Roof). I also corrected a lot of spelling mistakes and typos. And I tried to fix the compatibility issues with Firefox browsers. The font size is now better.

31/12/2004

I just read that Mamoru Oshii is working on an experiential image space for the Joint Pavilion Produced by the Chunichi Shimbun at the World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture Japan (from March to September 2005).
Source: Official expo website

30/12/2004

The Basset Hound is open two days before the forcast date. May it have a long life.

17/12/2004

The Basset Hound is opening on January 1st 2005. I truly hope this site will gather interrest and grow popular. If there is anything you'd like to see here, feel free to ask on the forum or by e-mail.

3/01/2006
After one year, I've deleted the forum due to a too low frequentation. Hey The Basset Hound is one year old!

10/12/2005
A game based on the mini-pato universe is beeing made by IG. Mamoru Oshii is the supervisor of the project. Mini-pato game at productionIG.com

18/11/2005
A page dedicated to Tachiguishi Retsuden has been added on the Production IG website. More info about the project can be found there and in english please. Tachiguishi Retsuden at productionIG.com

11/11/2005
Mamoru Oshii is the script writer of Kenta Fukasaku's next film: Elle is Burning. He also said in an interview at the Tokyo Film Festival that after Tachiguishi Retsuden, he is going to go back to animation with a love story film. Oshii-San seems to be in a changing mood.

7/09/2005
Dark Horse comics annouced the upcoming translation of Blood: Night of the Beast, the novel based on Blood the Last Vampire. More info.

19/05/2005
It seems Mamoru Oshii is no longer part of the Paris, Je t'aime omnibus project. At least, He is no longer mentioned on IMDB. If anyone has more info, please let me know. Thanks. And for something completely different, Mamoru Oshii is working as co-planner on the new Production I.G. TV series called Blood+.

18/05/2005
The website has been down for more than a week. I changed webhost after several issues with the former one. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

2/05/2005
I changed the forum sections to make it clearer (thanks Logic for the suggestion). I'm trying to find a way to animate the forum and help the community to grow. If you have any suggestion, please go to the dedicated section in the forum. Thanks.

10/02/2005
I just wrote a new paragraph about Ash's relation to the game in Avalon. Please check the section dedicated to Avalon if you wish to read it.

7/02/2005
I added a new element in the dog's paw section (chapter 4: visual representations) about one of Mamoru Oshii's way to shoot conversations.

31/12/2004
I just read that Mamoru Oshii is working on an experiential image space for the Joint Pavilion Produced by the Chunichi Shimbun at the World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture Japan (from March to September 2005). Source: Official expo website

30/12/2004
The Basset Hound is open two days before the forcast date. May it have a long life.

17/12/2004
The Basset Hound is opening on January 1st 2005. I truly hope this site will gather interrest and grow popular. If there is anything you'd like to see here, feel free to ask on the forum or by e-mail.