Mamoru Oshii

Mamoru Oshii (Japanese: Oshii Mamoru/Delicious Protect, Romanized: Oshii Mamoru, August 8, 1951 -), was born in Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Japanese animation and film director. Novelist, screenwriter, cartoonist, playwright and game designer. He also serves as a distinguished professor at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo and a visiting professor at Tokyo Keizai University. As of 2021, he lives in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Mamoru Oshii's representative works include "Fukusei Boy", "Patlabor", "Ghost in the Shell", etc. In 2004, he won the Japan SF Grand Prize for the theatrical animation "Ghost in the Shell 2: INNOCENCE".