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Oshii's Live-Action Assault Girls Feature in December
posted on by Egan Loo
The Japanese website goo Eiga has begun streaming a 43-second trailer in 56k, 500k, or 1MB bandwidth for Assault Girls, the latest live-action feature film from director Patlabor). This film will be Oshii's first live-action feature film since 2001's Avalon.
The science-fiction story is set on a post-apocalyptic desert battlefield where giant monsters named "Suna Kujira" (literally, sand whales) roam. Three beautiful female hunters — all of whom wield assault rifles and other powerful weapons — engage in battle with the monsters, including the biggest of them all, the Madara Suna Kujira (spotted sand whale). Rasen) play the three hunters Gray, Lucifer, and Colonel.
Oshii had previously said that he has plans for two live-action feature films starting this year, as well as one anime film in the 2011 timeframe.
Assault Girls opens in Japan on December 19.
Source: Nippon Cinema
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