Credited cast: | |||
Atsuko Tanaka | ... | Motoko Kusanagi (voice) | |
Akio Ôtsuka | ... | Batou (voice) | |
Kôichi Yamadera | ... | Togusa (voice) | |
Tesshô Genda | ... | Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura (voice) | |
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Masato Yamanouchi | ... | Foreign Minister (voice) |
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Shinji Ogawa | ... | Diplomat (voice) |
Yoshiko Sakakibara | ... | The Puppet Master (voice) | |
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Kazuhiro Yamaji | ... | Garbage Collector A (voice) |
Shigeru Chiba | ... | Garbage Collector B (voice) | |
Maaya Sakamoto | ... | Motoko Kusanagi (young) (voice) | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Steve Bulen | ... | Section 9 Staff Cyberneticist / Coroner (voice) | |
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Gina Connell | ... | Additional Voices (voice) |
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Stephen Davis | ... | Diplomat (voice) |
Dorothy Elias-Fahn | ... | (voice) (as Dorothy Gabriel) | |
Richard Epcar | ... | Batou (voice) |
A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).
GITS is one of my favourite films, and one of the first DVD's I bought when the format was new on the scene. After watching Innocence (which looked great), I was quite ready to see something totally awesome in this update. I was wrong.
As another comment said, they should have re-done the whole film, instead of a bit here and there. I couldn't enjoy the movie when it kept switching from CGI to cel-shaded animation. Also, considering this was made FOUR years after Innocence, the CGI is awful. Most of the time Motoko looks like a plastic doll. Not cool.
The music and sound effects were re-done, sometimes better, most times not. In the original GITS if somebody was getting beaten up, you would hear them scream. In 2.0, a guy gets his ankle broken and doesn't even let out a whisper. Stupid. The main theme song (the choral piece) was re-recorded and it too lost a lot of impact.
Don't bother with this. Just watch the original.