Mamoru Oshii tips: Vlad Love characters' names stem from Bin Konno's karate disciples. One of the main girls is called Nami Unten. She played a martial art stunt actor in KILL.
Hayao Miyazak wrote about his journey with Oshii. When Oshii's Lupin III was rejected, they went to Shiretoko, Hokkaido. Miyazaki wrote in this brochure that he'd like to make Oshii's Lupin into reality someday.
I found that Kumiko Yusa's contribution to Oshii's works is seldom mentioned on the Internet. The greatness of Oshii film's color design comes from her "Don't make standard color palette, change colors scene by scene" principle. She has done the same thing from the cel anime era
I hope that Kaoru Takamura's works are translated. Takamura's novels not only heavily influenced GitS SAC series, but they went beyond the genre framework. They are not Shirow's taste apparently, tho. To SAC fans, Takamura is much more important than Masachi Osawa.
