Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
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Short description
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is set in an alternate postwar Japan where the government faces a violent insurgent movement known as the Sect. To counter it, the authorities deploy heavily armored special police units. Kazuki Fuse, a member of one such unit, freezes during an operation and fails to stop a young girl carrying a bomb, who detonates it in front of him. The incident shakes him and leads to his retraining. He later meets Kei Amamiya, the dead girl's older sister, and begins a relationship with her, while rival police divisions maneuver around him and he is drawn into their internal conflict.
The film was directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, his first feature, released in 1999. He went on to direct Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, A Letter to Momo and Robot on the Road. The screenplay is credited to Mamoru Oshii and Satoshi Kon, and the film was produced by Hidekazu Terakawa and Atsushi Sugita for Bandai Visual, Production I.G and ING. The voice cast includes Yoshikatsu Fujiki as Fuse, Sumi Mutoh as Kei, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Kohsei Hirota, Yukihiro Yoshida and Ryuichi Horibe, with 25 credited cast members and 106 credited crew.
On IMDb the film holds a critics' rating of 5.8 out of 10 from 23 reviews, while on TMDB it rates 7.4 out of 10 from 593 votes, indicating that general viewers respond to it more warmly than professional critics did.
What's left behind the scenes
- A project to adapt Mamoru Oshii's manga "Legend of the Dog-Wolf" (Kenrou Densetsu), co-written with Kamui Fujiwara, had existed for a long time, dating back to the early 1990s.
- Initially, Osii was supposed to direct the anime adaptation. It was also planned as an OAV series. However, after lengthy discussions, Bandai offered the project to Okiura. Ultimately, an arrangement was agreed upon whereby Osii would write the screenplay based on one of the manga episodes, and Okiura would direct a feature film.
- This is Okiura's directorial debut. Previously, he worked as an animator and designer. Okiura is considered a student of Osii.
- Literally, 'jinro' means 'wolf-man' (not a werewolf). This is a reference to the fairy tale 'Little Red Riding Hood', the plot of which is played upon in the cartoon.
- Hiroyuki Okiura dislikes computer animation. Therefore, the film was made almost entirely using traditional animation methods.
- One of the last anime films created entirely using hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation, which required drawing over 80,000 frames.
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