Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
Direction
Oshii's most aggressively incomprehensible vision, and that's saying something.
Cinematography
Rain-soaked Berlin locations that feel like a memory of a place that never existed.
Score
Kenji Kawai's mournful jazz haunts every frame like a guilty conscience.
Director
Mamoru Oshii
Shigeru Chiba
Koichi Todome
Machiko Washio
Midori Washio
Hideyuki Tanaka
Soichiro Toribe
Tessyo Genda
Bunmei Muroto
Hideyo Amamoto
Moongaze Ginji
Mako Hyodo
Young Lady
Ichiro Nagai
Billiards Man
Yasuo Otsuka
Taxi Driver
Toshio Furukawa
Yakuza B
Tomohiro Nishimura
Punk
Hidetoshi Nakamura
Bunmei's Minion
Fumihiko Tachiki
Bunmei's Minion
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Oshii's 'Kerberos Saga' spanning manga, radio dramas, and two more films—he's been trying to make people understand this story since 1987 and we're still not there.
The infamous 'suitcase' was literally just a production error that Oshii decided was now symbolic because he could.
JP
