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[The contest is closing on Wednesday so get your entries in now!]Once again, ScreenAnarchy has teamed up with Well Go USA for a massive contest. Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls hits the streets on Region 1 DVD and Blu-Ray on October...

[Everybody loves Miike.  With Crows Zero 2 playing at Fantasia, it seems like the right time to pull one of our reviews out of the archives for a second glance.  Take it away, Niels!]Miike returns with a sequel to one...

Good news everyone! Well Go USA has picked up the North American rights for Mamoru Oshii's sci-fi chicks killing worms movie Assault Girls. And they are wasting no time getting ready to dish out the goods this coming October with Japanese...

  Babes! Guns! Monsters! When you look at what output of Mamoru Oshii actually has reached English-speaking territories the last few years, you'd be forgiven for thinking him to be only making dark, brooding films. Yet when you look at...

Mark Schilling from the Japan Times talks with Assault Girls director Mamoru Oshii about his film. For example... Describing the genesis of "Assault Girls" in a recent interview with The Japan Times, Oshii denied having any master plan. Instead...

Can't get enough of attractive Asian women with great big guns doing battle with giant creatures?  Well, here's a bit more from Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls, then.  The production is favoring slightly tamer art than this for the US and...

We're more than a little curious about Mamoru Oshii's Assault Girls, his first live film since Avalon. And to tide us over until we can get our grubby mitts on it NipponCinema loaded up 13 images, which we have 'teefed'...

Miike returns with a sequel to one of his slickest films ever. The original Crows Zero was a huge box office hit in Japan, making a sequel almost inevitable. For Crows Zero II Miike takes control again, delivering what must...

So now they don't even wait for the film to generate some buzz, they go for the prey's throat right away.Anyhow, Eiga.com is reporting that, during today's press conference in Shibuya (to announce the film's completion), Oshii confirmed amongst other...

Hot girls, big guns and bigger f'n creatures.  That's the blend of ingredients for Assault Girls, the new live action feature from Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii.  With a cast that includes Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actress...

[Our thanks again to Guillem Rosset for his ongoing coverage of the Sitges festival. He's making me very sad about the things I'll miss before I get there.]Takashi Miike has grown up. He's no more that director who worked non-stop...