Talking Head (film)

1992 Japanese film

Shigeru Chiba
Fumihiko Tachiki
Keishi Hunt
Mako Hyoudou
Tomoko Ishimura

CinematographyYousuke MamiyaEdited byHiroshi MatsuoMusic byKenji Kawai

Production
company

Bandai Visual

Distributed byBandai Co., Ltd.

Release date

1992 (1992)

CountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Talking Head (トーキング・ヘッド, Tōkingu Heddo) is a 1992 live-action film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. It is 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 Yasuo Ōtsuka and Ichirō Itano, designer Yutaka Izubuchi, writer Kazunori Itō, and composer Kenji Kawai. The director of the film within the film is named Rei Maruwa, which was a pseudonym for Oshii on several of his projects.

The film features a short anime segment by famous character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto (of Macross fame).

External links

Talking Head at IMDb

Works directed by Mamoru Oshii

Feature films

Urusei Yatsura: Only You (1983)
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)
The Red Spectacles (1987)
Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
MAROKO (1990)
StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991)
Talking Head (1992)
Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Avalon (2001)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Tachiguishi-Retsuden (2006)
The Sky Crawlers (2008)
Assault Girls (2009)
The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014–2015)
Garm Wars: The Last Druid (2014)
Tōkyō Mukokuseki Shōjo (2015)

Short films

Killers (".50 Woman"; 2003)
Onna Tachiguishi-Retsuden (2006)
Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden ("Assault Girl: Hinako The Kentucky", "The Golden Fish Girl"; 2007)

OVAs/ONAs