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There're some Mamoru Oshii book lists on the Internet, but they don't have detailed explanations about the contents. My Mamoru Oshii book collection is far from complete, but I'd like to write some short summaries for each of those books.
I apologize in advance for grammatical errors and misinformation.
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title: トーキングヘッド 絵コンテ集
(Talking Head: Storyboard)
release: 10/1/1992
publisher: Bandai
[contents]
storyboard
About Talking Head, Mamoru Oshii
Talking Head is an Unprecedented and Exciting FIlm, essay by Shinsuke Nakajima
staff list
[review]
This is a storyboard for Talking Head.
It was sold at theatres when the film was released.
The storyboard itself is not so different from Oshii's storyboards for other anime films. However, some say that's an important part of the book: Later, Oshii came to say that all films became like anime. It looks like this '90s storyboard retrospectively shows the origin of his idea.
He had written storyboards for other live-action films as well, but full live-action storyboard books are rare. (There's no full storyboard book for The Red Spectacles.) Plus, other storyboard writers undertakes some action parts in later projects. This book is, for now, only full live-action storyboard written solely by Oshii.
It's a very satisfying book for Oshii fans like me, but it doesn't tell any hidden information or metaphors. It includes some omitted shots as well, but they don't change the film so much. The afterwords by Oshii and Nakajima just retell the basic concept of the film.
If you want to learn storyboarding/ directing techniques, it's an interesting material for you.
