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Always includes a basset hound whenever possible in each of his movies. He owns a Basset himself, and is a fan of the breed.

Fequently features a usage of guns in his movies, specifically the Mauser C96 firearm.

[Biblical quote] A conversation with one character mentioning the Bible, God, or the meaning of life.

Always works with composer 'Kenji Kawai'.

Uses a motif of reflections/mirrors and flocks of birds.

One of the co-founders of Studio Ghibli along with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata but left over creative differences. Despite their differences, Toshio Suzuki and Studio Ghibli would later help Oshii with his production of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002).Oshii maintains skeptical, but respectful, views of each of Takahata and Miyazaki's films; he has been critical of Miyazaki's attitude towards his workers, but also claims that he would feel "strangely empty" and "it would be boring" if both Miyazaki and Takahata stopped making films.

Always includes a basset hound whenever possible in each of his movies. He owns a Basset himself, and is a fan of the breed.

According to Oshii, "Kenji Kawai's music is responsible for 50 percent of [his] films' successes" and he "can't do anything without [Kenji Kawai].".

He is a member of "Headgear," a group of anime/manga writers and artists. The group was set up so that all the creators could retain full copyright to their work, achieve greater publicity for their work and sell their manga to anime sponsors for film production., it comprises of Oshii, Masami Yûki, Yutaka Izubuchi, Kazunori Ito, Akemi Takada, Kenji Kawai, Naoyuki Yoshinaga, Fumihiko Takayama, Kenji Kamiyama, and Miki Tori.

He has worked on three animes: Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell; the former was an outright comedy and the latter two were drama shows but were fairly comedic. Oshii adapted these into films; he strayed from the source material by removing their comedy and giving them a darker atmosphere, which was a point of controversy for some fans ("Urusei Yatsura" creator Rumiko Takahashi was particularly upset with what he'd done with her story).

Experiencing a world that is different from reality - somewhere other than here and now as someone who does not exist - is an essential part of living a human life, an essential experience for human beings. It is no exaggeration to say this is the essence of culture and religion. Since prehistoric times, human beings have lived fictions that are not limited to reality, and it is these experiences that have made us human. This is perhaps the only thing that will not change in any given future.

It is precisely because animation is a type of film that is only made possible through characters of a world that differs from our own that it has the potential to portray stories that can be definitively told to people of very different countries or ethnic groups with different historical processes.

It is one's profession that shapes one's personality and determines the way one looks at things. Animation, in particular, is a form that requires imagination, so perhaps I look at the world as if it were an anime.

The greatest charm of the dogs we call Basset Hounds is the way they do nothing. Bassets want nothing more than to eat and hang around people.

His early years: At the time, the Japanese film industry was in decline, so no studios were hiring, and I was unemployed and married, so I had no choice but to join Tatsunoko Productions, which just happened to be hiring mid-career workers, and because it was the beginning of the animation boom and the studio was understaffed, I became a director within three months. Everything happened as it happened, and it had nothing to do with my own intention.