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Ghost in the Shell
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*Ghost in the Shell* is a 1995 Japanese film directed by Mamoru Oshii. The movie was produced by Production I.G and released by Bandai Visual, Kodansha, and Manga Entertainment. It has a runtime of 83 minutes and was released in Japan and the United Kingdom on November 18, 1995. The film’s budget was 3,000,000, and it generated 10,000,000 in revenue.
The film is categorized as a mystery, sci-fi, and suspense movie with themes including detective, mecha, and psychological elements. It carries the tagline, "It found a voice... Now it needs a body." Various sources have assigned it different scores, including 7.9/10, 7.8/10, 76/100, and 95%. On Jikan, it holds a score of 8.27 based on 363,384 ratings.
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Film · TMDB
7.9In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
Cast
- Atsuko Tanaka as Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
- Akio Otsuka as Batou (voice)
- Iemasa Kayumi as Puppetmaster (voice)
- Koichi Yamadera as Togusa (voice)
- Yutaka Nakano as Ishikawa (voice)
- Tamio Ohki as Aramaki (voice)
Themes
- android
- man vs machine
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- computer virus
- cyborg
- dystopia
- implantat
- fugitive
- female protagonist
- cyberpunk
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Ghost in the Shell
- Score
- 8.27/10 (363,384 votes)
- Rank
- #356
- Popularity
- #336
- Type
- Movie
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studios
- Production I.G
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 Sectio…
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Key facts
- Kanji
- GHOST IN THE SHELL/ 攻殻 機動隊
- Literal meaning
- GHOST IN THE SHELL/Armored Shell Mobile Unit
- Revised hepburn
- Gōsuto in za Sheru/Kōkaku Kidōtai
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Directed byMamoru Oshii Screenplay byKazunori Itō Based onGhost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow
Produced by Yoshimasa Mizuo
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghost in the Shell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.