The Sky Crawlers [Movie]

Directed by Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell (Movie).

The Sky Crawlers is set in an alternate history where, although the world is at peace, in order to ease the tension of a populace accustomed to war and aggression, private corporations contract fighter pilots to engage in actual combat operations against each other. The film introduces a mystery involving characters called Kildren (????, Kirudore /“kill-dolls”?), humanoids genetically designed to live eternally in adolescence.