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September 2007: Week 3

This week's Top Page is a frame from the fake WWII archive footage as seen in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read the our interview with Hisashi Ezura, visual effects director in Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters here.
Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters has been selected in competition at the London's 15th Raindance Film Festival. Read the details here.
Check the screening dates of Asience: Hairy Tale at Ottawa 2007 here.
Read about The Sky Crawlers, the new animation film by Mamoru Oshii here.
We added the synopsis of the TV series IGPX episode 26 here.

May 2007: Week 2

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to the Fox Game, a traditional pastime reportedly performed in soba stalls by Foxy Croquette O-Gin, as seen in Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read the third and final part of our interview with Mamoru Oshii here.
Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters will screen on June 1st at the prestigious Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. Read the details here.
We added the profile of Kiichi Inukai, the maverick ethnographer who dedicated his life to the study of the Fast Food Grifters here.
Mylene Farmer's music clip Peut-etre toi, directed by Naoko Kusumi, has been selected for Anima Mundi 2007, in Brazil. Read the details here.
And Katsuhito Ishii's CM Kirin Lemon 77 has also been selected for Anima Mundi 2007. Read the details here.
We added the synopsis of TV series IGPX episode 19 here.

April 2007: Week 3

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Moongaze Ginji and Foxy Croquette O-Gin, as seen in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters .

Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters will receive its Korean premiere at JIFF 2007. Read the details here.
Read the second part of our interview with Mamoru Oshii here.
We added the profile of the elite restaurant manager Kamiyama here.
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, president & CEO of Production I.G, is guest in a panel discussion to be held on April 21 at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Read the details here.
We added the synopsis of TV series IGPX episode 17 here.
This Month's Greeting Card is available here.

April 2007: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Ushigoro: The Fugitive, a parody of the Zatoichi movies as seen in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters will screen at the Cherry Blossom Anime Marathon in Washington DC. Read the details here.
Read the first part of our interview with Mamoru Oshii here.
We added the profile of the soba stall veteran Tokumitsu Shinada here.
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, president & CEO of Production I.G, is the guest in a panel discussion to be held on April 21 at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Read the details here.
We added the synopsis of TV series IGPX episode 15 here.

October 2006: Week 1+

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Medium Hot Sabu, the eight Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read Medium Hot Sabu's profile here.
Check Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters screening dates at Sitges here.
Read our exclusive interview about Le Chevalier D'Eon with producer Toshio Iizuka from Shochiku here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

October 2006: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Frankfurter Tatsu, the seventh Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Check about Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters Spanish premiere at Sitges 06 here.
Check the screening dates of Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters at the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival here.
Read Frankfurter Tatsu profile here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

September 2006: Week 4

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Hamburger Tetsu, the sixth Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Check the screening dates of Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters at the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival here.
Read Hamburger Tetsu's profile here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

September 2006: Week 3

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Beefbowl Ushigoro, the fifth Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Check the screening dates of Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters at the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival here.
Read Beefbowl Ushigoro's profile here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

September 2006: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Cold Badger Masa, the fourth Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read Cold Badger Masa's profile here.
Check the screening dates at Venice 63 here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Check the screening date of xxxHOLiC A Midsummer Night's Dream ad Animadrid 2006 here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

August 2006: Week 3

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Crying Inumaru, the third Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read Crying Inumaru's profile here.
Check the screening dates at Venice 63 here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

August 2006: Week 2

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Foxy Croquette O-Gin, the second Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read Foxy Croquette O-Gin's profile here.
The screening dates at Venice 63 have been announced here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Read the report from San Diego Comic Convention 2006. here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

August 2006: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Moongaze Ginji, the first Fast Food Grifter in Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters.

Read Moongaze Ginji's profile here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.
Read more about the Collaborative project between Nissan and I.G here.
Read about Mylene Farmer's animated music clip here.

July 2006: Week 4

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters, the latest movie directed by Mamoru Oshii, that has just been officially selected for the 63. Venice Film Festival.

Read Mamoru Oshii's comment here.
Go to the Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters page here.

June 2006: Week 5

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters, the new movie directed by Mamoru Oshii.

Go to the updated Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters info page here.
Read more about Mylene Farmer's videoclip Peut-etre toi here.