The Red Spectacles: A Brutal Cop Trapped By His Own Fantasies

For a director who’s experienced great popular success, Mamoru Oshii is a remarkably eccentric artist. He’s lamented the fact that his live-actions films have been cursed to relative obscurity. But his first one, The Red Spectacles, is seeing a  new re-release, following a crowd-funded restoration. Made in 1987, it weaves influences from Franz Kafka, Seijun […]

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