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Monday, February 28, 2000
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.
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An absolute classic
MacDara from Galway, 23 Jun 2008
Due for a live-action remake by James Cameron, this (along with Akira) is probably the best Manga movie I've seen. The inspiration The Matrix took from it is apparent throughout, as is William Gibson's influence on Ghost... itself. Set in a future when cybernetic implants are de rigeur and internet access is used almost as a sixth sense, government agents are on the hunt for a terrorist. You'll forget it's an animated film as you get into it. It's that good.
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A True Manga Classic
Steven from Dublin, 06 Dec 2007
What can I say!!?-I love Manga and Anime pics and this is a classic. Apparently this movie laid the foundations for the Matrix Trilogy-and when you see Ghost in the Shell you can see why. This is a must see for any manga lover-obviously the 'ground-breaking' effects have to be put into account for the time that it was released-mid 90's, but still-it's pretty cool
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Disappointed
Eamon from Meath, 14 Mar 2011
Maybe it was the hype, but I was expecting more. Very slow even though it's only 80 minutes long.
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ghost in the shell
naomi from Cork, 18 Nov 2008
a classic, well worth watching.
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Sci-fi
alan from Dublin, 13 Mar 2011
Not for me
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