Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006)

A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new ... See full summary »

Director:

Kenji Kamiyama

Writers:

Shirow Masamune (comic) (as Masamune Shirow), Kenji Kamiyama (screenplay)

Stars:

Atsuko Tanaka, Osamu Saka, Akio Ôtsuka

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Atsuko Tanaka	...	Motoko Kusanagi / Kuroma (voice)
Osamu Saka	...	Daisuke Aramaki (voice)
Akio Ôtsuka	...	Batou (voice)
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Togusa (voice)
Yutaka Nakano	...	Ishikawa (voice)
Tôru Ohkawa	...	Saito (voice)
Takashi Onozuka	...	Paz (voice)
Tarô Yamaguchi	...	Borma (voice) (as Taro Yamaguchi)
Sakiko Tamagawa	...	Tachikoma (voice)
Oki Sugiyama	...	Proto (voice)
Masahiro Ogata	...	Azuma (voice)
Eri Oono	...	Operator (voice)
Eiji Sekiguchi	...	Akafuku (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	Kayabuki (voice)
Tesshô Genda	...	Nakamura Bucho (voice)

Storyline

A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker nicknamed the "Puppet Master" is behind the entire series of events.

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Plot Keywords:

tough woman | tough girl | driving | year 2034 | gunshot | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

As part of the Nissan sponsorship, the movie features two concept cars designed by Nissan. The character Togusa drives a white Nissan's Sport Concept hatchback, and both Togusa and Aramaki travel in Nissan's six seater Infiniti Kuraza. Nissan's six seater Infiniti Kuraza's license plate is 3923 which read as san-kyuu-ni-san (in Japanese) or "Thank you Nissan".

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Quotes

Daisuke Aramaki: Batou! Are you listening to me Batou?
Batou: Yeah, I'm listening.
Daisuke Aramaki: Just where are you?
Batou: We found the body of the 13th tattooed man.
Daisuke Aramaki: Is it another suicide?
Batou: Yeah.
Batou: The place looks a lot like our own safe houses. It's probably one of their hideouts.

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Connections

References Ghost in the Shell (1995)

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Soundtracks

Player
(Opening theme)
Performed by Origa with Heartsdales
Music and arrangement by Yôko Kanno
Lyrics by Origa

User Reviews

OK, but for me a big let down

Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society, is probably the weakest in the Ghost in the Shell series of films and TV shows and is the third entry into the Stand Alone Complex series.

The anime is a good as any of the Stand Alone Complex series though doesn't quite match up to the two feature films. The drawing and shading has improved greatly over the series and is at its best here, there are moments when I noticed flickering but this is rare and again better than the two series of Stand Alone Society.

Where the story falls, compared to the rest of the Stand Alone Society is story, which I didn't find nearly as engaging as with previous efforts. Solid State Society is very slow to get going and really never builds the tension that it really should. Too much time seems to be spent on explaining what has happened over between the previous series and this film, which could have worked with a complete series but bogs the film down, with its much shorter running time.

Whilst I didn't hate the film, I must say that I was very disappointed, It is trying to be clever but for me was a let down in what is a very good series.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

23 November 2012 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society

Box Office

Budget:

JPY360,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,055,431

Company Credits

Production Co:

Production I.G.

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1