Japan, UK, 1995
82m
35mm film, Eastmancolor, 1.85:1
Dolby Digital, Dolby SR, Japanese
A Japanese/British animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Oshii.
Premise
In the year 2029 the line between Man and machine has become blurred, with minds connected directly into computer networks that span the globe. Combating rising hi-tech crimes are the cyborg police of Section 9. But having human minds in machine bodies, ghosts in their shells, can bring problems of their own as Major Motoko Kusanagi finds when she goes up against the mysterious hacker known as Puppet Master.
Credits
Crew
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Bandai Visual Co Ltd, Kodansha Ltd, Manga Entertainment, Production I.G.
Executive Producers: Andy Frain, Takashi Mogi, Teruo Miyahara
Producers: Ken Iyadomi, Ken Matsumoto, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Shigeru Watanabe, Yoshimasa Mizuo
Associate Producers: Hiroshi Yamazaki, Laurence Guinness, Makoto Ibuki, Yasushi Sukeof
Script: Kazunori Itô
Comic: Shirow Masamune
Character Designer: Hiroyuki Okiura
Key Animation Supervisors: Hiroyuki Okiura, Kazuchika Kise
Animation Director: Toshihiko Nishikubo
Mechanical Designers: Atsushi Takeuchi, Shôji Kawamori
Weapons Designer: Mitsuo Iso
Background Designer: Takashi Watabe
Computer Animation: Omnibus Japan; Prisms
Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai
Editor: Shuichi Kakesu
Music: Kenji Kawai
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Special Effects: Mutsu Murakami, Marix
Video Effects: Naoki Kanazawa, Shigeyuki Tsuchida
Production Designer: Takashi Watabe
Cast
Atsuko Tanaka (Major Motoko Kusanagi)
Akio Ôtsuka (Batô)
Tamio Ôki (Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki (JPN))
Iemasa Kayumi (Project 2501/The Puppet Master)
Namaki Masakazu (Dr Willis)
Kôichi Yamadera (Togusa)
Masato Yamanouchi (Foreign Minister)
Maaya Sakamoto (Motoko as a girl)
Tesshô Genda (Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura)
Kazuhiro Yamaji (garbage collector A)
Shigeru Chiba (garbage collector B)
Takashi Matsuyama (terrorist)
Mitsuru Miyamoto (Daita Mizuho)
Shinji Ogawa (notorious diplomat)
Yûji Ueda (assault-unit operator)
English language version voices
Mimi Woods (Major Motoko Kusanagi)
George Richard [real name: Richard Epcar] (Batô)
Abe Lasser [real name: Tom Wyner] (Project 2501/Puppet Master)
Ben Isaacson [real name: Simon Prescott] (Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura)
William Frederick [real name: William Knight] (Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki)
Mike Sorich [real name: Michael Sorich] (Ishikawa)
Steve Bulen (Section 9 staff cyberneticist/coroner)
Christopher Joyce (Togusa)
Phil Williams (Dr Willis)
Steve Davis [real name: Richard Cansino] (diplomat)
Tom Carlton (garbage collector A)
Doug Stone (garbage collector B)
George Celik (old man)
Stephen Davis (diplomat)
David Conrad[real name: Peter Spellos] (bad guy)
Hank Smith [real name: Skip Stellrecht] (minister)
Murray Williams [real name: Richard Barnes], Roger Canfield [real name: Steven Jay Blum], Toni Burke, Gina Connell, Dorothy Gabriel, Michael Porter [real name: Dougary Grant], Leo Gray, Meg Hamilton, Joan Mason, Joe Michael, Gilbert Navarro, Gloria Oldman, Ben Parks, Scott Prensor, S.J. Charvin [real name: Debra Rogers], Joe Michaels [real name: Joe Romersa], Donald Salin, Lia Sargent, Sam Sheffer, Stephen Platt [real name: Jimmy Theodore], Amy Wong (additional voices)
Alternative Titles
Aaveääni – Finnish title
O Fantasma do Futuro – Brazilian title
Ghost in the Shell – German/UK/US title
Szellem a kagylóban – Hungarian title
Links
Remake
Ghost in the Shell (2016)
Sequels
Innocence (2004)
Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2005)
See also
Akira (1988)
Blade Runner (1982)
Hackers (1995)
RoboCop (1987)
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Yôjû toshi (1987)
References
Books
- BFI Screen Guides: 100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant pp.73-74
- The Rough Guide to Anime by Simon Richmond p.52-53
