The Red Spectacles Review: Mamoru Oshii’s First Live-Action Film Is A Brilliantly Unique, Bizarre Diamond
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Before Patlabor, before Ghost in the Shell, and before he was known for his particular brand of philosophically minded anime, Mamoru Oshii released an utterly bizarre, wholly original science-fiction/neo-noir black comedy mashup called The Red Spectacles. A cat-and-mouse thriller if it had been directed by French New Wave-era Jean-Luc Godard and Robocop‘s Paul Verhoeven, Oshii’s […]