Oshii fans rejoice - Sony Pictures has picked up North American distribution rights to Mamoru Oshii’s latest epic ‘The Sky Crawlers‘! For some reason every time I post something about Mamoru Oshii I feel the need to defend my undying affection for everything he does - as far as I’m concerned Oshii could film an eight-hour rotoscoped anime of himself sitting on the shitter feeding his beloved basset hounds and I’d be totally enthralled.

Cinema Blend, where I noticed this happy news, describes ‘Sky Crawlers‘ reception at the Venice Film Festival as tepid, but I’m fine with that. What I’m not fine with is the fact that Oshii’s best experimental workThe Angel’s Egg still isn’t available in the U.S. What’s up with that? Of course, The Angel’s Egg so obtuse it makes The Red Spectacles look like Baby Geniuses.

Guess I’ll be waiting a while for that one…