Ghost in the Shell 2.0 [Blu-ray]

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Overview

Touted as the most expensive Japanese anime thriller ever created, this futuristic extravaganza features vibrant computer generated graphics, special effects and vividly drawn comic-book style characters give the film a surreal look. The story is set in the early 21st century. Tokyo has become a megalopolis and a computer network has created a world without borders. The yakuza run rampant and to stop them, the government has devised special cyborg agents out of pieces of human brains, and electronic parts. These machines can then download information at any point in the city. Beautiful Major Kusangi is one such agent. Though built like a beauty queen, inside she is all machine, but for a few hunks of organic brain matter. Still those biological parts are enough to start an identity crisis within. Still she has a job to do and that is to locate Project 2501, a powerful but formless virtual reality creature designed to access any system. The Project, code named "Puppet Master" has become independently intelligent and decides that it is a self-determined life form, beholden to no one. As he goes off in search of a suitable host body, Kusangi pursues him.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/24/2009
UPC:	0013138309587
Original Release:	1996
Rating:	NR
Source:	Manga Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:23:00
Sales rank:	23,174

Special Features

Ghost in the Shell (original movie); Making of Ghost in the Shell: production report; Theatrical trailer; Character profiles; Creator biographies

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mimi Woods	Kusanagi
Richard George	Bateau
William Frederick	Aramaki
Abe Lasser	Voices
Christopher Joyce	Voices
Mike Sorich	Voices,Actor
Ben Isaacson	Voices
Hank Smith	Minister
Steve Davis	Voices
Phil Williams	Voices
David Conrad	Voices
Tom Carlton	Voices
Doug Stone	Voices
Richard Epcar	Actor
Atsuko Tanaka	Kusanagi Motoko
Akio ?tsuka	Bat?
Iemasa Kayumi	Ningy? tsukai
K?ichi Yamadera	Togusa
Yutaka Nakano	Ishikawa
Tamio ?ki	Aramaki
Tessh? Genda	Nakamura buch?
Masato Yamanouchi	Gaimu daijin
Shinji Ogawa	Gaik?kan
Mitsuru Miyamoto	Daida Mizuho
Kazuhiro Yamaji	Seis? kyokuin
Shigeru Chiba	Seis? kyokuin
Takashi Matsuyama	Jikk?-han
Y?ji Ueda	Ts?shin no koe
Maaya Sakamoto	Sh?jo (Kusanagi)
Tania Torrens	Voices
Daniel Beretta	Voices
Gilles Tamiz	Voices
Pascal Renwick	Voices
Pierre Hatet	Voices
Tamio Ohki	Aramaki
Lia Sargent	Actor
Peter Spellos	Actor
William Knight	Aramaki
Richard Cansino	Diplomat
Kenji Kawai	Composer

Technical Credits

Shirow Masamune

Kazunori It?

Kazunori Ito

Andy Frain	Executive Producer,Producer
Toshio Hasegawa	Special Effects
Hoshiba	Special Effects
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	Producer
Ken Iyadomi	Producer
Ken Matsumoto	Producer
Teruo Miyahara	Executive Producer,Producer
Yoshimasa Mizuo	Producer
Mutsu Murakami	Special Effects
Noriyuki Ota	Special Effects
Shigeru Watanabe	Executive Producer,Producer
'Matrix' Yutaka	Special Effects
Shirow Masamune	Screenwriter
Kazunori It?	Screenwriter
Makoto Ibuki	Producer
Yasushi Sukeof	Producer
Hiroshi Yamazaki	Producer
Kodansha	Producer
Kazunori Ito	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Based on a manga by Masamune Shirow and directed by Mamoru Oshii, Ghost in the Shell marries the best aspects of both creators' styles. As in Appleseed, Shirow's tale is set in a near-future that should, by rights, be a utopia, yet still has a need for specialized police and military. Once again, Shirow uses his characters to pose questions about the nature of humanity -- how we regard each other, how societies form, and how we can expect to cope when technology pervades every aspect of life to the point where the line between man and machine blurs. Oshii, who has turned even the most popular of properties into personal, pensive films (Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor 2), runs with Shirow's world of high-tech thrills and armchair philosophy and makes it his own. He adds layers of luscious, CGI-enhanced visuals and a dark, moody soundtrack, and paces it all in a way that makes even the most pulse-pounding action scenes seem dreamlike.