“the best movie since Akira” - SELECT “simply dripping with colour and style” - PREMIERE “rattling pace, intriguing concepts and lush visuals” - SFX “inspired use of cutting-edge animation techniques” - TIME OUT Ghost in the Shell In a world caught up in the grip of information overload, where art... “the best movie since Akira” - SELECT
“simply dripping with colour and style” - PREMIERE
“rattling pace, intriguing concepts and lush visuals” - SFX
“inspired use of cutting-edge animation techniques” - TIME OUT

Ghost in the Shell

In a world caught up in the grip of information overload, where artificial intelligence is more than the real thing, and cyborg cops spend their lives surfing on an electronic sea of living data, only the Ghost – the indestructible soul of a human existence – exists to determine who is alive and who is purely a creation of the Net.

Major Motoko Kusanagi is an elite officer in Section 9, the Section 9 security force: a cybernetic agent so heavily modified that little more than her human consciousness remains. With cyborg partner Batou and human Togusa, Kusanagi is set on the trail of a computer-criminal known as the Puppet Master, a super-hacker skilled enough to hack into the very minds of his victims. His human marionettes live out existences that are nothing more than the super-generated fantasies, while the hacker commits his master’s crimes while the world waits helpless in the darkness.

But as Kusanagi delves into the web of secrecy surrounding the case, it appears that the Puppet Master has much bigger things in mind. As the investigation unfolds, Kusanagi finds herself on the edge of a vast and lethal political conspiracy.

Seamlessly merging traditional cel animation with the latest computer graphic imagery, Ghost in the Shell is a complex and violent cyberspace adventure from Masamune Shirow – creator of Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police.

PRODUCTION REPORT

The Ghost in the Shell production report is an in-depth look at the production work behind this year’s biggest anime release. We follow the story from the pages of the Manga to the premiere of the film, which includes interviews with the Director, Mamoru Oshii, the Japanese voice actors who played Batou and Kusanagi, the Original Author, Masamune Shirow, Musical Directors, Kenji Kawai, Character Designers, and many more.

Feature Film: 82 mins approx.
Production Report: 24 mins approx.