Production I.G. has announced that director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence) will release his next anime feature, Tachigui -- The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (Tachiguishi Retsuden) in the spring of 2006.  Oshii is both writing and directing the film, based on his own novel, which was serialized in Japan between 2000 and 2003.  One of Japan's top producers, Studio Ghibli's Toshio Suzuki (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle) is producing the film for Production I.G.

In Japanese Tachigui literally means 'standing and eating' so it is the natural term used in Japan to correspond with the English 'fast food.'  As Japan rose phoenix-like from the ashes of the devastation caused by its defeat in World War II, the nature of the 'street food' available to the denizens of Japanese city underwent numerous changes as dietary fads came and went, but whatever the variety of fast food someone always figured out ways to eat on the street without paying -- and these 'fast food grifters' are the subject of Oshii's latest film, which is currently in post-production.