Mamoru Oshii
Kazunori Itô (screenplay),
Masamune Shirow (comic)
Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka
Anime Expo Cinema Nights invites you to return to the visually stunning and poignant classic GHOST IN THE SHELL. 2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of "The Puppet Master," a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity. Director Mamoru Oshii's award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Shirow Masamune, is lauded as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.
1995
Japan
Japanese
English
98 mins
Action,
Adventure,
Animated
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