Ghost in the Shell 2.0
MOVIE · 1 episodes · 83 min/ep · Production I.G
Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can "ghost hack" (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, "born in sea of information," and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators. (Source: Manga Entertainment, edited)
Motoko Kusanagi
Main
Atsuko Tanaka
Japanese
Batou
Main
Akio Ootsuka
Japanese
Togusa
Main
Kouichi Yamadera
Japanese
Daisuke Aramaki
Supporting
Ningyoutsukai
Supporting
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Japanese
Shouji Kawamori
Mechanical Design
Masamune Shirow
Original Creator
Kazunori Itou
Script
Mamoru Oshii
Storyboard
Mamoru Oshii
Director
Kenji Kawai
Music
Mizuho Nishikubo
Animation Director
Hiroyuki Okiura
Character Design
Kouji Yamazaki
Associate Producer
Atsushi Takeuchi
Mechanical Design
