Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Oshii; an adaptation of the manga Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, produced by Production I.G, and written by Kazunori Itō. A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, was released in 2004. Major Motoko Kusanagi, lead operator of Section 9, is tasked with locating an elusive hacker known as "The Puppet Master," whom they've managed to track to a small area. The hacker turns out to be a garbageman, who is going through a divorce and thinks he is ghost-hacking his wife using a program provided to... him by an individual who met him in a bar in order to find his daughter. Batou and Ishikawa capture him and his supplier, but both are revealed to have also been ghost hacked by the Puppet Master, and neither remembers their real identities. One night, a female cybernetic body is suddenly assembled at Megatech without approval, and the cyborg escapes into the city where it is run over. Section 9 gets the body to try and determine why it was built.
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| Release date: | November 18, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Mamoru Oshii |
| Runtime: | 82 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ken Iyadomi, Ken Matsumoto, Yoshimasa Mizuo, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Shigeru Watanabe |
| Editor: | Shuichi Kakesu |
| Music by: | Kenji Kawai |
| Cinematography: | Hisao Shirai |
| Screenplay by: | Kazunori Itô |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Animation, Action, Fantasy, Thriller |