Koukaku Kidoutai


Ghost in the Shell

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Synonyms: Ghost in the Shell
Japanese: GHOST IN THE SHELL(攻殻機動隊)
English: Ghost in the Shell
German: Ghost in the Shell
Spanish: Ghost in the Shell
French: Ghost in the Shell
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Nov 18, 1995
Producers: Bandai Visual, Kodansha
Licensors: Manga Entertainment
Studios: Production I.G
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, Award WinningAward Winning, MysteryMystery, Sci-FiSci-Fi, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, DetectiveDetective, MechaMecha, PsychologicalPsychological
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 1 hr. 22 min.
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 8.271 (scored by 340318340,318 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #3102
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #336
Members: 656,881
Favorites: 13,316

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Synopsis

In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is now more interconnected than ever before, and the city's Public Security Section 9 is responsible for combating corruption, terrorism, and other dangerous threats following this shift toward globalization.

The strong-willed Major Motoko Kusanagi of Section 9 spearheads a case involving a mysterious hacker known only as the "Puppet Master," who leaves a trail of victims stripped of their memories. Like many in this futuristic world, the Puppet Master's body is almost entirely robotic, giving them incredible power.

As Motoko and her subordinates follow the enigmatic criminal's trail, other parties—including Section 6—start to get involved, forcing her to confront the extremely complicated nature of the case. Pondering about various philosophical questions, such as her own life's meaning, Motoko soon realizes that the one who will provide these answers is none other than the Puppet Master themself.

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Background

Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell was the first film to adapt Masamune Shirow's manga of the same name. It heavily condenses the original storyline, reducing the original material's comic relief and sexual content in favor of a more serious tone and changing the setting from Japan to a city modelled after Hong Kong. The artwork within the animated film was produced using an innovative mix of cel animation and digital effects.

Ghost in the Shell is one of the world's most famous Japanese animated films, being the first to reach #1 on Billboard magazine's video best-seller list, and also served as a major inspiration for the Wachowskis in their creation of the Matrix movies. A special edition titled Ghost in the Shell: 2.0 was released in 2008, which features scenes reanimated with additional CGI to match the style of the 2004's sequel, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence.

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Staff

Iyadomi, Kenichi
Producer
Oshii, Mamoru
Director, Storyboard


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"Making of a Cyborg" Kenji Kawai
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Reviews

Sep 7, 2024
The fact that I finished GitS today is magnificent. I really liked the film, at such applied standards you can tell that he worked hard on it. The year it was launched is just a number and I realize that anything is possible regardless of time and space. The film is a work of animation, story and sound, also inspiring my favorite combat game (Oni Bungie).

Certainly all this in a super movie with action, adult cast and much more, of course, the movie is an art in the anime industry and should not be forgotten by anyone. Transposing the Cyborg world into such a ...
Feb 22, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Ghost in the Shell is visually and aurally stunning. Its animation is smooth, its music is gorgeous, its art holds up to the test of time, and its futuristic setting is captivating. However, watching it for the first time in 2024 clearly left me with different thoughts than someone who might've seen it for the first time at its release nearly thirty years ago.

That is to say, this movie failed to have any actual substance in its characters or plot. It is purely a vehicle for existential philosophy. Which is painfully ironic considering it's literally a movie called "ghost in the shell".

Of course ...
Aug 21, 2024
FunnyFunny
God damn this is boring I wish there was a powerpoint presentation of screenshots from this movie because the art is the only masterful part of it. The film drags through it's story like a little child from checkpoint to checkpoint before you can even realize what's happening. Plot jumps all over the place, It's also extremely uninteresting I had even forgotten what it was about half way through. The themes are spoonfed to you as if insulting your intelligence, "you are here to watch a film not think! What did you think this classic from '95 was about?".

God damn what is the minimum ...

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