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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: March 31, 1998
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Manga Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Single Side - Single Layer
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Surround - Japanese
- Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes/Outtakes
- Featurette: THE MAKING OF GHOST IN THE SHELL
- Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Production Notes
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Mamoru Oshii | |
| Screenwriting by | Kazunori Ito | |
| Original story by | Shirow Masamune | |
| Composition by | Kenji Kawai | |
| Story by | Masamune Shirow | |
| Produced by | Kodansha | |
| Voice: | Akio Otsuka |
Entertainment Reviews:
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4 stars out of 5 -- It really is one of the most futuristic and strange movies imaginable and its status as animation, occupying its own exotically precise universe, means that it has arguably aged better than live-action movies like BLADE RUNNER or TOTAL RECALL.
The Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell will always strike a chord with those directly affected by bodily displacement.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 3/4 --
The drawing style is remarkable in a story that reveals a Japanese preoccupation with roboticized culture and hard-edged sexuality.
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Chicago Tribune
... Oshii's dazzling science fiction work mixes adventure, mystery, and metaphysics in a future where humans are routinely augmented with bionics and electronic implants, and then follows it into the next evolutionary step.
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Seanax.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
An excellent science fiction story that has a lot to say about human nature. [Full review in Spanish]
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Me gusta el cine
Rating: 4/5 --
For sheer mind-expanding sci-fi strangeness this is hard to beat
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Time Out
Conjures up a dazzling, futuristic cityscape that, sadly, is not matched by the human landscapes at the heart of the story.
Time Out
Product Description:
The makers of "Akira" present another milestone Japanimation epic in this futuristic odyssey about an elite half-cyborg female agent sent out to apprehend a cyber-genius data thief who is plundering the very contents of people's minds. Contains nudity and violence. The Collector's Edition includes a special 30-minute documentary on the making of the film.
Plot Synopsis:
Another visually sensational animated film from the producers of the acclaimed "Akira."
Major Motoko Kusanagi is a beautiful cyborg who works for Section 29, Japan's secret police force, in the year 2029. Motoko's supervisor, Aramaki, orders her to find Puppet Master, a sinister computer terrorist created by a rival organization.
Helping her is fellow cyborg Bateau and the almost entirely human agent Togusa. Because their prey has the ability to hack into the minds of his enemies, the evil villain must be stopped as soon as possible.
But as the tough cops close in on their target, Motoko realizes that she and Puppet Master seem to have a lot in common.
Major Motoko Kusanagi is a beautiful cyborg who works for Section 29, Japan's secret police force, in the year 2029. Motoko's supervisor, Aramaki, orders her to find Puppet Master, a sinister computer terrorist created by a rival organization.
Helping her is fellow cyborg Bateau and the almost entirely human agent Togusa. Because their prey has the ability to hack into the minds of his enemies, the evil villain must be stopped as soon as possible.
But as the tough cops close in on their target, Motoko realizes that she and Puppet Master seem to have a lot in common.
Keywords:
Animation
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Thieves
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Futuristic
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Cops
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Film Noir
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Robots / Cyborgs
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Anime
Production Notes:
- Shown at the 1996 Berlin and South by Southwest Film Festival.
- Released theatrically in New York City March 29, 1996.
- Produced by Kodansha in association with Bandai Visual and Manga Entertainment.
- James Cameron, who directed such science fiction movies as "The Abyss" and both "Terminator" films, had this to say of "Ghost in the Shell": "Stunning... the first truly adult animation film to reach a level of literary and visual excellence... an important visionary work."
- Voices: Richard George (Bateau); Mimi Woods (Major Motoko Kusanagi); William Frederick (Aramaki); Abe Lasser (Puppet Master); Christopher Joyce (Togusa); Mike Sorich (Ishikawa); Ben Isaacson (Nakamura); Hank Smith (Minister); Steve Davis (Diplomat); and Phil Willimas (Willis).
- Copyright 1995 Masamune Shirow/Kodansha Ltd./Bandai Visual Co., Ltd./Manga Entertainment. English Language Version Copyright 1996 Kodansha Ltd./Bandai Visual Co., Ltd./Manga Entertainment Inc.
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- UPC: 780063552929
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