Mamoru Oshii is a filmmaker whose 1985 film Angel's Egg is included in the Busan International Film Festival's new anime strand, and whose 1991 film Kerberos: The Cerberus of Hell is referenced in the trailer for Mobile Police Patlabor EZY File 1, which carries his approval credit.
The Busan International Film Festival added a curated anime strand to its 31st edition, titled Japanese Animation Special: Masterpieces of Madness, Exhilarating Prospects 12+1. The program pairs 12 anime films with one European classic, Paul Grimault's The King and the Mockingbird. Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg is among the selected titles, alongside works by Taiji Yabushita, Osamu Tezuka, Rintaro, Shingo Natsume, and Ryo Katanosaka. Rintaro, now working on a new Galaxy Express 999 feature, will appear at the festival.
Separately, the official Patlabor X account posted the trailer from the end credits of Mobile Police Patlabor EZY File 1. That trailer carries the credit "trailer approval: Mamoru Oshii." It closely follows the preview for Oshii's 1991 film Kerberos: The Cerberus of Hell, and was planted by storyboard artist Shinji Higuchi. The post connects the EZY in-joke to the ongoing daily uploads of the Patlabor TV series on the Bandai Namco Filmworks YouTube channel.
These two mentions place Oshii's work in both festival and franchise contexts. Angel's Egg appears in a curated historical survey, while the Patlabor trailer invokes his earlier film as a deliberate reference. Neither story reports any new project from Oshii himself.
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