
THE WALL DECOR AT LANDMARK TOWER, YOKOHAMA.VISITING NIPPON MARU MEMORIAL PARK A.K.A YOKOHAMA.WALKING AROUND THE RED BRICK WAREHOUSE IN YOKOHAMA.A 2-DAY COURSE FOR JOHOR BAHRU DISTRICT ENGLISH LA.INSIDE JAPANESE OVERSEAS MIGRATION MUSEUM.CUPNOODLES MUSEUM - THE ONE OF ITS KIND.FALLING IN LOVE - WITH A JAPANESE MARKET.WHEN IN JAPAN, DO LIKE THE JAPANESE DO - PART 3.SHINJUKU - THE WORLD'S BUSIEST PEDESTRIAN CROSSING.TOYOKO INN HASHIMOTO-EKI KITAGUCHI KANAGAWA, JAPAN.NARITA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - HI AND GOODBYE.BREAKING FAST AND TARAWIKH PRAYER IN SCHOOL.VISITING THE GIRLS AT SEKOLAH TUN FATIMAH.VIDEO - THE BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY AT TAMA ZOO, TOKYO.THE "KHATAM AL-QUR'AN" EVENT IN SCHOOL FOR RAMADHA.THE LONG BREAK FOR EID HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED.It's been a while since Oshii has worked with a screenwriter other than Kazunori Ito (no relation to Chihiro, I assume). The screenwriter Chihiro Ito previously wrote the scripts for the films Crying out Love, in the Center of the World (aka Socrates in Love, in the English adaptation of the original novel) and Spring Snow ( Haru no Yuki, the recent film version of the Mishima novel). It'll be really interesting to see what they come up with for the film. "However, very few of them have earnestly depicted the reality that youngsters are actually living in." "Nowadays, there are many stories in live-action and animation that are targeting young people," producer Tomohiko Ishii explains. For the pic, in which a society of children lives in eternal adolescence, helmer Mamoru Oshii ("Ghost in the Shell") decided to work with young scriptwriter Chihiro Itou so that his message could reach his intended audience. Likewise, Production I.G's "The Sky Crawlers," which is set to unspool in Japan next year, will contain a romantic theme. Via ANN, a new article in Variety titled "Anime films follow new inspirations: Evolving format aims to reach wider audience" briefly covers some of the new developments in anime, one of which is Oshii's upcoming film The Sky Crawlers:
