“It's a little presumption of me to make a commentary on it, but things really changed before and after Mr. Oshii's animation style.”
Kojima states that Japanese animation changed before and after Oshii’s style: contrasted with Disney’s full animation exemplified by Blancanieves, which moves everything even with a fixed camera and is impossible for Japanese hand drawing, and contrasted with Miyazaki’s care for movement, Oshii introduced a cinematic awareness of framing and camera — the layouts and lens work with that distorted fisheye effect that Kojima says even Hideaki Anno imitates. Kojima bought Oshii’s book The Pat Labour Method while he was making adventure games in which the camera could not move, and considers Oshii the first person to really think layouts in service of storytelling. He adds that Oshii fought the period’s prejudice that anime is bad education until he created a new culture that now influences creators worldwide; Kojima says Robocop 2 copied the final scene of Patlabor, and that the Wachowski sisters and Guillermo del Toro copied him as well.
“things really changed before and after Mr. Oshii's animation style […] with Mr. Oshii, he's aware of cinematic camera work and layouts, like his lens work with that really distorted fisheye lens. Even Hideaki Anno imitates it. I bought Mr. Oshii's book, The Pat Labour Method […] I think Mr. Oshii was the first person to really consider layouts and storytelling. […] But Mr. Oshii fought and fought and finally made it through, ultimately creating a new culture. […] Robocop 2 copied him. That scene at the end of Pat Labor. And the Wachowski sisters have copied everything too. And so did Guillermo.”