Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)

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).

Director:

Mamoru Oshii

Writers:

Shirow Masamune (manga) (as Masamune Shirow), Kazunori Itô (screenplay)

Stars:

Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera

Cast

Credited cast:
Atsuko Tanaka	...	Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
Akio Ôtsuka	...	Batou (voice)
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Togusa (voice)
Tesshô Genda	...	Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura (voice)
Masato Yamanouchi	...	Foreign Minister (voice)
Shinji Ogawa	...	Diplomat (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	The Puppet Master (voice)
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)
Gina Connell	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Stephen Davis	...	Diplomat (voice)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn	...	(voice) (as Dorothy Gabriel)
Richard Epcar	...	Batou (voice)

Storyline

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).

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Plot Keywords:

hacker | cyborg | philosophical | police officer | police chief | 

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Taglines:

The cyberpunk classic that inspired 'The Matrix', reworked for today!

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

12 July 2008 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Ghost in the Shell 2.0

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$489,807

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bandai Visual Company, Manga Entertainment, Production I.G.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

DTS-ES Dolby Digital EX

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The following dialogue from the film is a direct quotation from the Bible (I Corinthians 13): "When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete-as complete as God's knowledge of me".

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Goofs

When the Section 9 members discuss about the "host shell" female cyborg, there's a shot with the brain hologram out of focus in the foreground. In this shot, the original (1995 movie) hologram is shown, instead of the new CGI one.

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Quotes

Batou: Get out of the fucking way!

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Connections

References Blade Runner (1982)

User Reviews

Unnecessary and invasive

There is not much to say. 2.0 is an unnecessary, invasive and generally destructive "remaster" which violates the tone, breaks the immersion and adds strange 3D scenes, attempting to unite the original with the sequel in style, all the while their stylistic differences were so important to highlight the advancement of the story.

Avoid this and watch the original 1995 Ghost in the Shell.