Posted: Sep 15, 2003

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UC Irvine 35mm Film Screening of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

"Outperforms most contemporary live-action films at every level!"

- Hollywood Reporter

“Jin-Roh offers…a compelling vision of what an animated feature can be"

- L.A. Times

Cypress, CA (September 15, 2003) – Bandai Entertainment announced today a special 35mm film screening of Mamoru Oshii’s animated classic, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade at the University of California, Irvine. The screening of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is organized by the UC Irvine Cal-Animage Epsilon anime club in association with the UC Irvine Film Society and will be screened on September 25th, 2003 at 7:00 PM in the UCI Film and Video Center / 235 Humanities Instructional Building. For more information please visit http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/cae/CAE.html

In his first directorial debut, Hiroyuki Okiura (Ghost in the Shell) brings to life Mamoru Oshii’s (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor) haunting tale of innocence caught in a web of politics and intrigue.

Set in an alternate history of Japan, Constable Fuse is part of an elite Special Forces unit known as the Capital Police whose mission is to maintain peace during a time of civil unrest. Battling with guerillas deep within the underground tunnels of the city, Fuse encounters a young girl armed with explosives. Hesitating to the stop the girl, the terrorist triggers the explosive killing herself and injuring Fuse. Sent for retraining, Fuse searches for the reason behind his and why her image continues to haunt him. Upon a chance meeting with the terrorist’s sister, Fuse becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and politics between the Capital Police, the government intelligence bureau, and a secret society known as Jin-Roh – the Wolf Brigade…with the lives of those he cares most at stake.

Jin-Roh © 1999 Mamoru Oshii / Bandai Visual • Production I.G.

English Adaptation 2001 Bandai Entertainment • Viz Communications

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