Garm Wars: The Last Druid

Garm Wars: The Last Druid
Movie poster
Directed byMamoru Oshii
Screenplay byMamoru Oshii
Geoffrey Gunn
Gen Urobuchi (Japanese dub)
Story byMamoru Oshii
Produced byMakoto Asanuma
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Tetsu Fujimura
Lyse Lafontaine
Toshio Suzuki (Japanese dub)
StarringLance Henriksen
Kevin Durand
Melanie St-Pierre
Jordan Van Dyck
Summer H. Howell
Andrew Gillies
Dawn Ford
Patrizio Sanzari
Martin Senechal
CinematographyBenoit Beaulieu
Edited byAtsuki Sato
Music byKenji Kawai
Production
companies
Distributed byToho (Japan)
Arc Entertainment (U.S.)
Release dates
  • October 25, 2014 (2014-10-25) (TIFF)
  • October 2, 2015 (2015-10-02) (Canada)
  • May 20, 2016 (2016-05-20) (Japan)
Running time
102 minutes
CountriesCanada
Japan
LanguageEnglish

Garm Wars: The Last Druid is a 2014 Canadian-Japanese live action/animated science fiction adventure film directed by Mamoru Oshii.[1][2][3] It is also the first English-language film by Oshii, who is famous for his Japanese-language animated works including Ghost in the Shell and Urusei Yatsura.[4] The film tells the story of three soldiers who abandon a genocidal war between tribes to seek answers about why their world has been abandoned by its god, and why the tribes were made to fight each other in the first place.[1]

The film had two separate releases, with its English version premiering at the Tokyo Film Festival of 2014 and its Japanese version being released on May 20, 2016 .[4][5] The Japanese version was renamed "Garm Wars," and was produced by Studio Ghibli director Toshio Suzuki, with Gen Urobuchi writing the Japanese script.[4] According to Suzuki, the Japanese dub "tried to change the impression of the film without changing the content of a single line."[4]

  1. ^ a b "Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars Trailer Streamed". Anime News Network. September 30, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  2. ^ Deborah Young (October 24, 2014). "'Garm Wars: The Last Druid': Tokyo Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  3. ^ Peter Debruge (November 16, 2014). "Film Review: 'Garm Wars: The Last Druid'". variety.com. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d "Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars Film to Open in Japan on May 20". animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  5. ^ "ガルム・ウォーズ". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved May 27, 2016.