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Cyborg super agent Major Motoko Kusanagi reporting for duty! Charged with rooting out dangerous "ghost hackers" to prevent a criminal cyber takeover, can Kusanagi and her elite team track down the Puppet Master and save the day? 30th anniversary screening.
The year is 2029. A 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 cyborg-human hybrids and using them as 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 tech noir cyperpunk thriller, based on the breakthrough manga by Masamune Shirow, has established itself as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time. [83 min; thriller, crime, drama; Japanese with English subtitles]
"Top-notch animation, soundtrack and a story full of action and thought-provoking ideas, this 90-minute film from 1995 is still just as good now as it was then. A must-watch." — David Hogan, Hogan Reviews
"Oshii is able to knit together action sequences with extraordinary power and conviction ... Ghost in the Shell is absolutely terrific." — Stephen Hunter, Baltimore Sun
"Ghost in the Shell is a true masterpiece, the epitome of the heights an anime can reach and in that fashion, a classic of Japanese and world cinema." — Panos Kotzathanasis, Asian Movie Pulse
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