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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

1999 Japanese animated film by Hiroyuki Okiura

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Jin-Roh , also known as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade in its American release, is a 1999 Japanese anime action political thriller film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura and written by Mamoru Oshii. Based on the first chapter of volume 1 of Oshii's manga Kerberos Panzer Cop, it is the third film in the Kerberos Saga after 1987's The Red Spectacles and 1991's StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, and is the only fully animated film in the saga. The film stars Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Sumi Mutoh, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Kousei Hirota, and Yoshisada Sakaguchi.

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“Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade” enters the record as 1999 Japanese animated film by Hiroyuki Okiura. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jin-Roh, Wolf and Brigade can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 1987, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jin-Roh, Wolf and Brigade.
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