| Garm Wars: The Last Druid | |
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| Directed by | Mamoru Oshii |
| Screenplay by | Mamoru Oshii Geoffrey Gunn Gen Urobuchi (Japanese dub) |
| Story by | Mamoru Oshii |
| Produced by | Makoto Asanuma Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Tetsu Fujimura Lyse Lafontaine Toshio Suzuki (Japanese dub) |
| Starring | Lance Henriksen Kevin Durand Melanie St-Pierre Jordan Van Dyck Summer H. Howell Andrew Gillies Dawn Ford Patrizio Sanzari Martin Senechal |
| Cinematography | Benoit Beaulieu |
| Edited by | Atsuki Sato |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Toho (Japan) Arc Entertainment (U.S.) |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Countries | Canada Japan |
| Language | English |
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]
- ^ a b "Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars Trailer Streamed". Anime News Network. September 30, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ^ Deborah Young (October 24, 2014). "'Garm Wars: The Last Druid': Tokyo Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ^ Peter Debruge (November 16, 2014). "Film Review: 'Garm Wars: The Last Druid'". variety.com. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Mamoru Oshii's Garm Wars Film to Open in Japan on May 20". animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ^ "ガルム・ウォーズ". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved May 27, 2016.