Talking Head (film)

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Talking Head (1992) is a live action film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. Its a surreal meta-film mystery involving the production of an anime called Talking Head.

The film has many references to the anime industry with characters being named after animators such as Yasou Otsuka and Ichiro Itano, designer Yutaka Izubuchi, writer Kazunori Itoh, and composer Kenji Kawai. The director of the film with in the film is named Rei Maruwa, which was a pseudonym for Oshii on several of his projects.

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Talking Head features a short anime segment by Macross famous author Haruhiko Mikimoto.

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Talking Head at the Internet Movie Database

Japanese Cinema
Live action films by Mamoru Oshii
The Red Spectacles (1987) \| StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991) \| Talking Head (1992) \| Avalon (2001) \| Killers: .50 Woman (2003) \| Onna Tachiguishi-Retsuden (2006)