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Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie

Original title: 攻殻機動隊 新劇場版.

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When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source.

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The first installment, Ghost Pain (released on 22 June 2013), starts in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear world war. 501st Secret Unit agent Motoko Kusanagi looks into the death of her mentor, Lt.Col. Mamuro, after accusations arise of his involvement in arms dealing. During her investigation, Motoko meets Public Security Section 9 chief Daisuke Aramaki and JGSDF Ranger Batou, the latter of which suspects Kusanagi of having a bigger role in the case than she lets on. Unbeknownst to Kusanagi, the Secret Unit's head, Kurutsu, and the unit's elite cyborg agents have placed her under surveillance.

The second installment, Ghost Whispers (released on 25 November 2013), takes place after Kusanagi leaves the 501st Secret Unit and forms her own team. When someone hacks into the Logicoma, Motoko supervises a transport of the machines for an abnormality scan; along the way, an armed unit attacks the transport and specifically targets Motoko. Not long after the attack, Motoko meets up with Batou, Ishikawa (an Army hacker and a longtime Batou's associate), and Borma (an electronic warfare expert), and recruits them into Section 9.

The third installment, Ghost Tears (released 28 June 2014), follows Section 9's investigation on the terrorist organization, whose symbol is the Scylla, an ancient sea-monster. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation. His findings are connected to Motoko and Section 9's case and it all leads to someone who is in a relationship with Motoko.

The fourth and final installment, Ghost Stands Alone (released 6 Sept 2014) takes place in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection released by the terrorist "Fire Starter." Section 9 entrusts the suppression of the situation. As they investigate further, the group discovers a deeper revelation regarding the terrorist.

A manga adaptation of Arise released simultaneously with each OVA episode. In the spring 2015 anime season, a 10-episode TV series called Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture aired. Alternative Architecture is the original 4 OVA episodes split up into two episodes each for TV broadcast; the final two episodes are a new arc called Pyrophoric Cult , which concluded the Fire-Starter Myth Arc .

The Arise continuity was concluded with the release of Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie on June 20, 2015.

An anime VR movie known as Ghost In The Shell Virtual Reality Diver was released in English and Japanese in July 13, 2018 for Apple and Android smartphones.

Funimation licensed the show for release in North America; initially releasing a Limited Edition subtitled Blu-Ray. The dub of Episode 1 and 2 was released in October 2014. Episodes 3 and 4 followed suit in October 2015, and Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie was released in April of 2016.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise contains examples of the following tropes:

• Actor Allusion : Anastasia Mu�oz has played a well-known person who dabbles on the side as a secret arms dealer .
• Adaptation Expansion : The original manga's first chapter started off with all of Section 9's members undergoing a mission that would also serve as a test. They had to prove their worth to the government so that they could be established as an official operation. These OVAs show Motoko eventually being recruited by Aramaki in order to form Section 9 in the first place. In the manga, the character's backgrounds are never shown or reflected upon.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us / The Siege : The UN PKO base at the Republic of Kuran before and after rogue Kuran Air Force fighters bombed the base.
• Alternate Continuity : Kenji Kamiyama confirmed that he was not involved in this project, which itself was confirmation that it is not part of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex continuity (Kamiyama was the head of the entire SAC series.) Motoko's origin story in this series completely contradicts her backstory in SAC, making it impossible for them to be connected. Batou's, Ishikawa's, and Saito's backstories are also completely contradictory.
• Anachronic Order : Alternative Architecture starts off with the "Ghost Stands Alone" arc, turning the other three OVA arcs into a Whole Season Flashback.
• Armies Are Evil : The JSDF in general and the JGSDF in particular are shown to be pretty damn shady. True, they're in rather awkward situation ( and financial black hole ), what with the grand reorganization and mass downsizing after the war, but it's not really a justification for putting their cyborgs into debt peonage , engaging in illegal arms deals, street murder, covert foreign interventions , general corruption and whatnot.
• Colonel Mamuro's attempts to blow a whistle on this drive the whole plot of the first OVA.
• One of the main political conflicts on the postwar Japan in the Arise world is whether the military development (and, naturally, sales) should be domestically based, or outsourced to the Third World.
• Avengers Assemble : The main premise of the OVA where Motoko recruits the men who would be the future members of Public Security Section 9.
• Big Bad : The New Movie reveals that Kurutsu was the perpetrator of the entire storyline, right from the moment she and Motoko first met when they were children. She's the Firestarter, she created the Altered Memories Virus, she was responsible for the Prime Minister's assassination and her own so-called "death" .
• Boxed Crook : The Major recruits half her team this way.
• Brainwashed and Crazy : Motoko spends the first episode inadvertently infected with a virus that produces Fake Memories , causing her to obsess over proving Mamuro's innocence, while unconsciously following impulses the memories instruct her to, which winds up incriminating her for the murder.
• Car Fu : A Big Damn Heroes with an armored Toyota Koukidousha.
• Cramming the Coffin : The first episode opens with Public Security disinterring the grave of a military officer whose cyber brain they need to access. Instead they find the coffin empty except for an android that tries to kill them . Later Motoko goes back to the gravesite and finds another coffin buried underneath the first, with the officer's body.
• Creepy Doll : The landmines definitely look the part. Especially when Motoko starts seeing them everywhere because of the virus .
• Curtains Match the Window : Motoko's hair and eyes are different shades, but still close enough to count.
• "Die Hard" on an X : Episode 2, "Ghost Whispers". Unlike most examples, the " Die Hard " here isn't isolated to a single building, but is more reminiscent of "Die Hard With A Vengeance": All of Niihama's transportation is held hostage, and Motoko, cut off from reinforcements and supplies, is forced to play a game of cat and mouse against a JGSDF military unit gone renegade across the frozen city.
• Dissonant Serenity : Border 4 begins with cyber-hacked riot police opening fire on peaceful protesters before turning the guns on themselves. All while "Jingle Bells" plays through the streets .
• Does This Remind You of Anything? : Motoko's JGSDF uniform closely resembles those worn by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II . This isn't a coincidence in the slightest.
• Dramatic Thunder : The scenes at the cemetery.
• Dream Team : Motoko scouts out 6 potential members to join the team that Aramaki and Section 9 is allowing her to create. He thinks it's pretty absurd that she's setting her standards impossibly high, yet everyone she recruits fits her expectations perfectly.
• Elites Are More Glamorous : Well, Section 9 and the JGSDF's Ranger-trained soldiers for starters.
• Every Car Is a Pinto : Motoko lets the Logicoma shoot the tires of a Jeep, drives past it and then suddenly go kablooey.
• In the first OVA, a computer virus which infected both Mamuro and Motoko. This somehow messes up Motoko's memories as she investigates Mamuro's death which prompts other investigators, including Batou, to believe that she's responsible for his death.
• In the second OVA, this also happens to Batou, Ishikawa, Borma and their squad leader, Col. Soga, where they're led to believe that Soga didn't massacre the refugees in Qhardistan. Though it turns that the refugees are armed guerrillas. The child Batou remembers giving water to was a deadly child soldier gunning for him .
• In the third OVA, a mysterious hacker involved in Qhardistan underground movement and whose ghost gets dubbed onto Akira Hose's mind, turns out to be Motoko herself, then on a mission from the 501st, and made to forget about it by installing fake memories into her cyberbrain .
• In the fourth OVA, the virus makes a riot police unit to see the armed terrorists within the largely peaceful demonstration, massacring it as a distraction for an assassination attempt on a runaway hacker and a head politician .
• The most devastating use of this is in The New Movie : the prime minister's son was infected with the Firestarter virus. He was the one who delivered the explosive briefcase that killed his father. He goes into a Heroic BSoD when the Major cures his infection and he realizes what he did .
• Frame-Up : Motoko doesn't believe that Mamuro is involved with arms dealing and then, she also got accused for his death. But it turns out it's a gambit to expose the Defense Vice Minister's corruption and Mamuro and Motoko are just pawns .
• Googling the New Acquaintance : The manga starts off with Aramaki prepping the team with a new mission, but they're waiting on Batou to finish bringing some supplies back to HQ. Motoko figured it'd be best to let a pro handle it, revealing that Batou worked in a delivery service before he joined the military. Batou was not amused.
• Government Agency of Fiction : Possibly for the actual National Security Agency. The series has the name of the agency as the "National Secret Agency" and the logo is taken from the actual FBI.
• Hack the Traffic Lights : Organized by rogue JGSDF Rangers in order to prove that they are serious when they want their imprisoned CO freed of false charges.
• Heavy Sleeper : Saito is constantly napping throughout Borders 3 and 4, even inside Motoko's cyber lobby.
• Inhumanable Alien Rights : In this version, Motoko's pregnant mother was killed in a chemical accident, and they saved Motoko by giving her a full-prosthetic body right out of the womb through an emergency procedure. While technically she's a full citizen, her bodies were paid for by the JGSDF and legally belong to them. She's emancipated at the end of the first episode and promptly resigns her commission to work for Aramaki.
• Interservice Rivalry : The 501st and the Rangers in the manga are shown not to get along at all. And both hate Military Intelligence with a passion.
• It's Personal : In the first OVA, Motoko investigates Mamuro's death which goes with disregarding her superior's orders to not get involved. Batou digs in the case because his Ranger friend who was killed is connected to Mamoru.
• Just Between You and Me : Motoko gets a ready confession from a corrupt politician, but only because his cyborg mooks are waiting outside his vehicle. Unfortunately Motoko is talking remotely via a fem-bomb under her optical camouflage, so he gets a nasty surprise.
• Kaiju Defense Force : In-Universe , Motoko used to be with the JGSDF's 501st Secret Unit. Batou was in the Rangers, taken from the SAC universe. Pazu and Aramaki were in the JGSDF military police, though Aramaki was in the Investigations Department, not enforcement, and was later transferred to the Military Intelligence (which is a plot point in "Ghost Stands Alone"). Ishikawa, Saito and Borma are said to be with the Rangers in the Arise 'verse, while other incarnations have not made it clear which part of the JGSDF they belong in.
• Karma Houdini : Unit 501 in general and Lt. Col. Kurutsu in particular, who were never taken to task for all the treachery, confusion, and destruction they've caused.
• Karma Houdini Warranty : Colonel Hozumi gets her comeuppance in Pyrophoric Cult . Unit 501 gets wiped out in The New Movie , notably Ibachi is killed by the Major, and Raizo gets shot dead by a Logicoma. Meanwhile, Kurutsu is revealed to have been a sickly girl all along who decides to leave the physical world behind and join the Net.
• Let's You and Him Fight : Happens twice with Batou and Motoko, before he's forcibly recruited into her squad.
• Lonely Bachelor Pad : Young Motoko Kusanagi's apartment is pretty sparse - consisting of a four walls, a bed, a bathroom, and a chair. This is in stark contrast to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend in the original manga, which is more decorated - at least until it's blown up.
• Loss of Identity : In Ghost Tears , Motoko admits to suffering from this while she was using the "Scylla" identity in the Republic of Kuzan's civil war and constantly switching bodies. The mental trauma she experienced from this is why she sticks with only one body upon returning to Japan.
• MacGuffin : "Pandora" in Ghost Whispers , a database that allegedly contains all kinds of classified government information. Colonel Kazuya Soga is attempting to hack into it to clear his name regarding a massacre he and his unit participated in during the Qhardistani conflict. In reality, Soga was being manipulated by an official in the Defense Ministry, who in turn was playing into a situation that was engineered by the AI impersonating the American agent VV in a desperate ploy for it to find some kind of meaning to its existence after it attained sentience.
• Made a Slave : The JSDF essentially puts its cyborgs into indentured servitude, due to astronomic costs of their prosthetic bodies and dire financial straits the military is in. It's bad enough that by default their every expense has to be authorized by an assets board, unless given a waiver by a superior officer. Once they've paid out their cost they could be their own person again, though.
• Madness Mantra : The Lt. Col. is innocent. The Lt. Col. is innocent.
• Also happened in the first OVA when Motoko confronts armed public security officers at a military cemetery. Also crosses to Motoko Is About To Shoot You .
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self : Motoko keeps getting Mirror Scare moments of the fem-bomb being in the room with her. Turns out she's been there all the time, but the virus kept editing her out.
• New Tech Is Not Cheap : The JSDF funneled enormous amount of money into the research and production of military cyborgs during the war in Kuran. This is the main reason for their current Perpetual Poverty . The issue is brought up in The New Movie where it is stated that technology continues to advance at such a fast rate, that production lines move from one thing to the next, and cyborgs are outdated and become incompatible with new tech. They can't continue doing anything productive to society at large.
• Motoko pretty much coerces Saito to join Section 9. She threatens to hack his bank account and give back all the money he's accrued from gambling over the years if he didn't. She at least pointed out that he would still be paid for his work though.
• Batou was given a more merciful offer. Either he joined Section 9, or go to trial for his crimes and be left at the mercy of a court that would be unquestionably stacked against him.
• Older Than They Look : In Border 3, Akira takes Motoko to a wedding. She doesn't see anything unusual about it, just a bunch of young people getting married and enjoying the celebration. He points out that nearly all of them are around 70 years old, and how prosthetic bodies are able to give them a renewed life.
• Omniscient Council of Vagueness : The assets board that manages military cyborgs in Episode 1.
• Origins Episode : Following along with the first chapter of the manga, this series covers an aspect of Motoko's life right before she is recruited to Aramaki's Section 9 project. He had to make sure that such a team could work out first before having it officially approved by the government.
• Overranked Soldier : Both Motoko (a Major ) and Batou (a Commander note  Though why he uses a Naval rank and wears Navy uniform while being established as a Ranger is quite inexplicable. ) were wa-a-a-ay above the missions both did in the Kuran Republic.
• Parental Substitute : Lt. Colonel Mamuro is implied to be this for Motoko, and apparently transferred this responsibility to Aramaki, whose friend he was.
• The Plan : Kurutsu and Unit 501 plotted to expose the Defense Vice Minister's illegal arms trade by letting Mamuro take the fall for the crimes of the Vice Minister. Of course, they didn't anticipate the memory virus installed in Mamoru's cyberbrain and Motoko, attempting to analyze his cyberbrain and getting infected herself .
• Posthumous Character : JGSDF Lieutenant Colonel Giichi Mamuro, the former Unit 501 commander and Motoko's superior officer. His murder basically starts the whole plot of the first episode.
• Prequel : To Ghost In The Shell in general. The formation of Section 9 is something that isn't even covered in the manga aside from the first chapter, and this series goes much beyond that in detail . However, this trope is zigzagged , as while 2027 is the earliest setting in the Ghost in the Shell franchise, this series quickly establishes itself in its own Alternate Continuity from everything else.
• Private Military Contractors : The New Movie begins with Kurutsu and the 501st becomming PMCs, believing that corporations have already reached the point of overtaking governments.
• Aramaki drives high end Infiniti cars rather prominently.
• Promoted to Scapegoat : Kurutsu and Unit 501 had to let Mamuro take the fall for the Vice Minister's crimes so they can expose the latter. Motoko is not pleased with this .
• Really Gets Around : In Ghost Tears Motoko was said to go through six boyfriends in six months. In the same conversation Paz says that he never sleeps with the same woman twice as well.
• The Rival : Batou and Motoko to each other in their army days. After joining Section 9, they've settled into the more familiar Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge : Noroshi has this in the 1st manga chapter after JGSDF officers assigned to the Kuran PKO base evacuated without the Rangers to avoid being killed or captured by armed guerrillas when the base was attacked by rogue Kuran Air Force fighters. He didn't get a chance to bomb the hotel where the officers were since Batou told him that it won't bring back the dead civilians or their fellow Rangers from the dead.
• Room Full of Crazy : Motoko's room winds up ripped up and scrawled with a Madness Mantra as her mind subconsciously obsesses over the directives of her Fake Memories . In a twist, Motoko herself doesn't realize she did this, because of her self-censoring vision.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! : Aramaki's main tool on implementing the following trope. During his long and varied career he did a lot of favors to a lot of people, and he's not shy to call in on them.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! : Both Aramaki's and Major's team note  they were technically still independent of each other until the very end of the series modus operandi , for which Aramaki was even called out by one of his less scrupulous former colleagues. In fact, making this official (removing the Section 9 from the oversight of the blatantly corrupt Ministry of Interior) and setting it up as an independent agency is the main political conflict of the series.
• Showing Up Chauvinists : Batou often shows disapproval of being ordered around by the Major, who gave him the only option of joining her team instead of rotting in jail . When he finally confronts her about her leadership style, he takes a swing at her, but she easily dodges and lays him out in a single punch. In a later incident, she hacks his cyberbrain and make him punch himself out for saying something chauvinistically stupid.
• Batou's pistol strongly resembles a M1911A1 in the tie-in manga.
• Shout-Out : In the movie, a Unit 501 contractor shoots the Major with a WA2000 sniper rifle at close range, similar to how Sho Kanaya fatally wounds Yu Ominae in Spriggan .
• Signature Move : Motoko's hacking, which is how she beats enemies that are stronger than her.
• Sleazy Politician : Everyone with even a tiniest bit of political connection, except Section 9 chief , Daisuke Aramaki, though he's more of a bureaucrat than politician in the strict sense.
• Technical Pacifist : Aramaki is at least 60 years old, and when he was in the Military Police he was a detective, not an enforcer , but he's still the only member of his team not incapacitated by and fighting back against the booby-trapped gynoid in the supposed Lt.Col. Mamuro's casket.
• Throw-Away Country : The Republic of Kuran is where the main conflict of the war took place in the manga. The series adds that Qhardistan ended up getting devastated in the conflict as well.
• Tomato in the Mirror : A lot of many characters' memories and visuals aren't real, but rather phantoms induced by various viruses and hacks, such as those that were used to make Mamuro drop his investigation, which Motoko got from his cyberbrain; or fake memories installed into Col. Soga and his men about their op in the -stans .
• Trail of Blood : Batou and Togusa follow a red blood trail when they were investigating a suspect behind a series of bombing attacks involving prosthetic limbs. While it led to a crumpled bullet head, the two detectives were caught in an ambush from the back.
• 20 Minutes into the Future : 2027, placing it closer to now than the rest of the franchise.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension : It starts with the Belligerent Sexual Tension in the manga, where Batou and the Major are still major rivals , through their usual Vitriolic Best Buds and Well, Excuse Me, Princess! dynamic, to the pretty blatant last scene of the fourth OVA.
• Vitriolic Best Buds : Batou and Motoko, as usual. Batou is still fond of telling racy jokes about Major and her love life, while she likes hacking him to punch his own face for that. They still have an incredible chemistry together.
• In the first episode, Unit 501 is used as a cover for illegal arms running under the nose of its supposed commander. When said commander tried to blow a whistle on that, it ended in his death and intra -unit civil war, not to mention the shootouts with various other branches like the JGSDF's Rangers and Public Security.
• In the second, the corrupt Defense Ministry official created a long and convoluted Batman Gambit installing fake memories into Col. Soga and his men, and then setting him as a scapegoat for a civilian massacre, all in hopes that he will use a stolen American military computer he was given access to in order to hack into the secret ministry database in an attempt to clear his name. The official in question then intended to sell his own military's dirty underwear to the outside world and flee Japan.
• In the third episode, the Military Intelligence unit in support of the outsourcing the weapons development to the third world enters into the illicit deal with a foreign company producing the cyborg parts, in which it uses the sales of water from an impoverished Third World country to finance the production of booby-trapped prosthetics. Then MI smuggles the limbs into Japan and the uses a strung-out former military cybernetics expert (and the Major's current boyfriend ) to install them on various high-placed officials to blackmail them.
• In the fourth episode, the Unit 501, which supports the domestic military development, tries to kidnap a runaway hacker (a 17 y.o. war orphan girl involved into the aforementioned MI unit schemes) until it all runs into Section 9 trying to investigate both. It ends with the said MI unit disbanded, its colonel arrested, Unit 501 getting off scot-free , Section 9 emerging as an independednt investigative agency, and the poor hacker girl (and her boyfriend) dying and dispersing their Ghosts over the 'Net.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist : Her efforts were to find a way for mankind to transcend physical bodies and exist as data on the net. Kurutsu fabricated the entire Arise storyline from the moment she first met Motoko as a child .
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness : The Rangers who were left behind by their officers after the PKO base was attacked by rogue Kuran Air Force fighters despite strong objection from a JASDF crewman. This was the reason why Noroshi wanted to assassinate them.
• Zeerust : While still taking place in the future, instead of the creators adapting the technology to reflect upon what we have in today's world, such as smart phones and the like, it takes elements from the original manga from back in 1988. The most notable example are the huge and numerous cables plugged into Motoko as she learns how to use her body in the trailer.

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Ghost in the shell arise: border 4 -- ghost stands alone   photos.

Motolo tracks down a terrorist know as Fire Starter after an infection affecting cyberbrains is released in the city.

Genre: Action, Sci-fi, Anime

Original Language: Japanese

Director: Kazuchika Kise

Writer: Tow Ubukata

Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016

Runtime: 58m

Production Co: Bandai, Anime Network

Cast & Crew

Maaya Sakamoto

Motoko Kusanagi Voice

Kazuchika Kise

Tow Ubukata

Screenwriter

Keigo Oyamada

Original Music

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• Public Security Section 9

Motoko Kusanagi/Arise

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• 1.1 Early life
• 2 Appearance

History [ ]

Early life [ ].

Motoko Kusanagi's birth and upbringing occurred under unusual circumstances. Her mother died in an accident while she was still pregnant with Motoko, but doctors were able save the fetus's brain and implant it in a cyborg body, meaning that Motoko was effectively cyberized from birth. As cyborgs were extremely expensive and the procedure could not be covered by health insurance, the government placed Motoko in the care of the JGSDF 's Unit 501 , where she was raised by the unit's leader, Lieutenant Colonel Mamuro . Eventually, she entered active duty and employed her skills as a wizard-class hacker in the service of Unit 501, attaining the rank of major.

Appearance [ ]

Motoko is completely redesigned in Arise . Her cybernetic body is shown as far younger in appearance and shorter in height to other versions, resembling a teenager or young adult and not much taller than Chief Aramaki . Her hair is blue and cut in a close, straight bang form, and she is usually shown wearing full red leather pants and jackets and high heel boots.

Gallery [ ]

• 1 Motoko Kusanagi
• 2 Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045
• 3 Laughing Man

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• There's really 3 universes:
• There's two main ways to start watching it:
• There are also three additional "movies" called ( Laughing Man , Individual Eleven and SAC_2045 Sustainable Warfare ) but I don't think they're particularly worth watching.
• There is also a TV series " ARISE : Alternative Architecture " but it's just ARISE OVA collected together as 10 episodes show .(unnecessary to watch)
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1. Ghost in the Shell (1995)

TV-MA | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka , Iemasa Kayumi , Akio Ôtsuka , Kôichi Yamadera

Votes: 151,889 | Gross: $0.52M

the original movie

2. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)

TV-14 | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime

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 | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka , Akio Ôtsuka , Kôichi Yamadera , Tesshô Genda

Votes: 15,013

(the same movie as the original but with some "enhanced CGI" ) [unnecessary to watch]

3. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (I) (2004)

PG-13 | 100 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.

Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Akio Ôtsuka , Atsuko Tanaka , Tamio Ôki , Kôichi Yamadera

Votes: 39,724 | Gross: $1.04M

a sequel to the original movie

4. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2005)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.

Stars: Shirô Saitô , Atsuko Tanaka , Osamu Saka , Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Votes: 20,537

the TV show season 1 & season 2 (2nd GIG)

5. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006 TV Movie)

108 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

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 | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka , Osamu Saka , Akio Ôtsuka , Kôichi Yamadera

Votes: 7,382

a sequel movie to Stand Alone Complex tv show

6. Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 (2020– )

TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Crime

Hired as a mercenary unit, the former members of Japan's elite Section 9 are faced with the sudden appearance of "Post-Human," a being with tremendous intelligence and physical capabilities.

Stars: Richard Epcar , Mary Elizabeth McGlynn , Melissa Fahn , Dave Wittenberg

Votes: 2,836

a sequel 3D animated netflix TV show after Solid State Society movie

7. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005 Video)

TV-14 | 160 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A compilation movie featuring scenes from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Director: Kenji Kamiyama | Stars: Alison Matthews , Russell Roberts , David Kaye , Trevor Devall

Votes: 2,160

a movie made from a collection of scenes from SAC season 1 [unnecessary to watch]

8. Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006 Video)

Not Rated | 162 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A new terrorist organization known as the Individual Eleven is bent on mass destruction. Will the cyborg detective heroine and her elite anti-crime unit be able to stop them?

Votes: 3,241

a movie made from a collection of scenes from SAC season 2 [unnecessary to watch]

9. Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D (2011)

130 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.

Director: Kenji Kamiyama | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka , Akio Ôtsuka , Kôichi Yamadera

a 3D remake of S.A.C. Solid State Society movie (it's the same movie ) [unnecessary to watch]

10. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 - Sustainable War (2021)

119 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

In the year 2045, cybernetic mercenary Motoko Kusanagi returns to Section 9 to face a dangerous new threat: the posthumans. A feature-length recut of the first season of Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045.

Directors: Shinji Aramaki , Michihito Fujii , Kenji Kamiyama | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka , Osamu Saka , Akio Ôtsuka , Kôichi Yamadera

a movie made from a collection of scenes from Netflix SAC_2045 season 1 [unnecessary to watch]

11. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)

TV-MA | 58 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

In this prequel set one year after the fourth World War, cyborg and hacker extraordinaire Motoko Kusanagi from the military's 501st Secret Unit finds herself wrapped up in the investigation of a devastating bombing.

Directors: Masahiko Murata , Kazuchika Kise | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto , Ikkyû Jaku , Ken'ichirô Matsuda , Tarusuke Shingaki

Votes: 4,273

ARISE prequel OVA part 1

12. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013)

TV-MA | 57 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

Witness the formation of the legendary Public Security Section 9. When a clandestine organization hacks every car in the city, Kusanagi recruits a lethal team of cyber operatives to clamp down on the chaos and make the city safe again.

Directors: Atsushi Takeuchi , Kazuchika Kise | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto , Ikkyû Jaku , Ken'ichirô Matsuda , Tomoyuki Dan

Votes: 3,149

ARISE prequel OVA part 2

13. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)

TV-MA | 55 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scylla. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.

Director: Kazuchika Kise | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto , Ikkyû Jaku , Ken'ichirô Matsuda , Tarusuke Shingaki

Votes: 2,857

ARISE prequel OVA part 3

14. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)

TV-MA | 59 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

When the riot squad starts shooting citizens during the holiday season, the Major and her team must track down a terrorist hacker who operates under the name Fire-Starter.

Directors: Susumu Kudô , Kazuchika Kise | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto , Ikkyû Jaku , Ken'ichirô Matsuda , Tarusuke Shingaki

Votes: 2,278

ARISE prequel OVA part 4

16. Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015)

TV-MA | 100 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

Newport-City 2029: Major, an advanced female cyborg, is in charge of the anti-terrorism etc. unit reporting directly to the government. Taking out terrorists and freeing hostages at an embassy doesn't go smoothly. Major investigates why.

Directors: Kazuchika Kise , Kazuya Nomura | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto , Ken'ichirô Matsuda , Ikkyû Jaku , Kazuya Nakai

Votes: 4,048 | Gross: $0.10M

ARISE Sequel movie

17. Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture (2015)

275 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A recompilation of the 4 original Ghost in the Shell: Arise movies plus 2 episodes that tie in the story with Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015).

Stars: Miyuki Sawashiro , Maaya Sakamoto , Ken'ichirô Matsuda , Yôji Ueda

it's just ARISE OVA collected together as 10 episodes show [unnecessary to watch]

18. Ghost in the Shell (2017)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson , Pilou Asbæk , Takeshi Kitano , Juliette Binoche

Votes: 223,858 | Gross: $40.56M

a live action remake of the original movie

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Ghost in the Shell is an American science fiction action picture based on the Japanese Manga of the same name. The story follows the main protagonist, Major Motoko Kusanagi, or "Major", an enhanced cyborg supersoldier working for the Public Security Section 9, investigating her past. The Major was portrayed by Scarlett Johansson .

The following weapons were used in the film Ghost in the Shell :

• 1.1.1 Thermoptic Glock
• 1.1.2 Non-Thermoptic Glock 19
• 1.2.1 Section 9 Glock 17
• 1.2.2 Hanka Glock 17
• 1.3 Heckler & Koch VP70
• 1.4 IWI Jericho 941 PL
• 1.5 Izhmekh MP-446 Viking
• 2.1 Smith & Wesson Model 29
• 2.2 Chiappa Rhino 60DS
• 3.1 Section 9 Submachine Gun (Heckler & Koch MP5K)
• 3.2 IMI Micro Uzi
• 3.3.1 Briefcase Mini Uzi
• 3.3.2 Yakuza Shooter Mini Uzis
• 3.3.3 Skinny Man Uzi
• 3.4 Thompson M1A1
• 3.5 Sterling L2A3 Mk.4
• 3.6 Fictional SMG
• 4.1 Crye Precision SIX12
• 4.2 Remington 870
• 5.1 Major's Police Bike Tavor SMG (IWI X95)
• 5.2 Fictional M4A1
• 5.3 CSA Sa vz. 58 Compact
• 5.4 Hanka Carbine
• 6.1 Saito's Rifle
• 6.2 S6 Sniper Rifle

Major's Pistol (Glock 19)

The Major ( Scarlett Johansson ) uses a Glock 19 pistol in a futuristic shell. She also uses a white and transparent version of the pistol when using her thermoptic camouflage suit.

Thermoptic Glock

Non-Thermoptic Glock 19

Section 9 Glock 17

All members of Section 9 excluding the Major and Togusa carry Glock 17s with customized grips and an underbarrel attachment.

Hanka Glock 17

Hanka-hired mercenaries also uses Glock 17s, put in a futuristic shell.

Heckler & Koch VP70

IWI Jericho 941 PL

In the bar, a Yakuza gunman uses a IWI Jericho 941 PL with a threaded barrel, which is commandeered by Major. This was more or less Batou's sidearm in the 1995 animated film. Cutter ( Peter Ferdinando ) also uses one with what appears to be a underbarrel laser sight attachment, as do Hanka bodyguard bots in the opening shootout.

Izhmekh MP-446 Viking

A Izhmekh MP-446 Viking is used by a Yakuza gunman to hold Batou ( Pilou Asbæk ) at gun point before Batou takes it for himself. A suppressed version is seen at the start of the movie.

Smith & Wesson Model 29

A Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver is used by Chief Daisuke Aramaki ( Takeshi Kitano ).

Chiappa Rhino 60DS

Togusa ( Chin Han ) wields a Chiappa Rhino 60DS in the film. This is the modern (and much more accessible) equivalent to the Mateba style revolvers he carries in the animated films, which share the same designer and many design elements.

Submachine Guns

Section 9 submachine gun (heckler & koch mp5k).

Various members of Section 9 including Batou ( Pilou Asbæk ), Togusa ( Chin Han ), Saito ( Yutaka Izumihara ), Ishikawa ( Lasarus Ratuere ) and Ladriya ( Danusia Samal ) carry submachine guns resembling the Heckler & Koch UMP . However, on closer inspection of the ejection port these submachine guns are actually Heckler & Koch MP5Ks inside a futuristic shell. Saito's submachine gun is fitted with an ACOG and suppressor.

IMI Micro Uzi

Kuze ( Michael Pitt ) uses a pair of Micro Uzis to fend off Batou.

Modified Mini Uzis

As in the 1995 film , gunmen use submachine guns disguised as briefcases. However, instead of Steyr SPPs , the weapons are now modified IMI Mini Uzis . A gunman wields a pair of unmodified ones, save for wraps on the handguards, and a character named Skinny Man fires a highly modified Mini Uzi in a shell, likely designed to strengthen the gun's frame for use with High-Velocity rounds.

Briefcase Mini Uzi

Yakuza Shooter Mini Uzis

Skinny Man Uzi

Thompson M1A1

At least one of the briefcase guns is a modified and shortened Thompson M1A1 .

Sterling L2A3 Mk.4

A Yakuza gunman at the bar uses a Sterling L2A3 Mk.4 submachine gun.

Fictional SMG

Crye Precision SIX12

The shotgun used by Batou ( Pilou Asbæk ) is a modified Crye Precision SIX12 , fitted with the enlarged handguard of the integrally suppressed variant and a cover over the top rail. This shotgun is also used by Borma ( Tawanda Manyimo ).

Remington 870

The Bartender uses a slightly decorated pistol-gripped Remington 870 .

Assault Rifles

Major's police bike tavor smg (iwi x95).

The Major ( Scarlett Johansson ) also uses a "Police Bike Tavor SMG", which is based on the IWI X95 . It seems like this weapon is meant to represent the fictional CZN-M22 used in the 1995 film, which was primarily based on the FN P90 . Despite being identified as a submachine gun, the props used for the film presumably still fired 5.56x45mm NATO intermediate cartridges, rather than handgun cartridges.

Fictional M4A1

When Batou and Major go to Hanka Robotics, a large robot guard stands watch with a slightly fictional M4A1 .

CSA Sa vz. 58 Compact

One of the Garbage Men uses a CSA Sa vz. 58 Compact in what seems to be a hardened shell used to bolster the gun's frame while using High-Velocity rounds.

Hanka Carbine

Hanka-hired mercenaries use a completely custom carbine, similar in appearance to the 9A-91 .

Sniper Rifles

Saito's rifle.

Saito uses an anti-materiel rifle that seems to be made from a Remington Model 700 Tactical Chassis rifle put into a futuristic shell.

S6 Sniper Rifle

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Burger King and Jack in the Box's spooky mini-movies seek to scare up Halloween sales

Fast food chains aren't just bringing out spicy foods as Halloween treats , they are backing them up with Hollywood-quality teaser trailers and mini-movies.

Burger King teamed up with director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon ( "The Current War" and "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" ) and its brand agency partner Dentsu Creative to create a 60-second film called "The Call," to scare up excitement about the limited time items – the Ghost Pepper Whopper and Ghost Pepper Chicken Fries – added to the restaurants' menu Thursday.

The short film, which is available to view on YouTube , will also play in select movie theaters Friday ahead of feature presentations.

Gomez-Rejon, who has also directed and produced some episodes of the "American Horror Story" TV series, said in a statement, "I love short films and I love horror, so I jumped at the chance . … I had a blast revisiting the genre for the first time since my ("American Horror Story") days, and directing a horror short starring the Ghost Pepper Whopper.”

If the video isn't scary enough, you can visit TheCall.BK.com and give your name and phone number to get your own creepy phone call before Halloween.

Jack in the Box also dropped a horror short on Friday to celebrate the return of its Monster Tacos and Angry Monster Tacos until Nov. 19. "Feeding Time," with running time of 7½ minutes, has an Angry Monster food truck confronting some Halloween bullies.

Among Hollywood talent who worked on the short: writer/director Marcus Dunstan and writer Patrick Melton ("The Collection," "Saw 3D" ) and writers Asha Michelle Wilson ("American Horror Story") and Kara Lee Corthron ("You, The Flight Attendant"). Developed during the writers strike, "this project allowed writers to find a creative storytelling outlet," the company said in a statement.

Viewers can watch for an Easter egg that unlocks free Monster Tacos on the Jack app.

Sam's Club: Warehouse retailer offers up to 70% discounts on new memberships through the weekend

Wait, Burger King has Ghost Pepper Whoppers?

Burger King has brought back the Ghost Pepper Whopper, first made available for a limited time in 2022. The burger (suggested price, $6.99, available while supplies last) is a Whopper dressed with spicy queso, jalapeños, bacon and ghost pepper cheese, on a toasted orange bun topped with black sesame seeds.

New this year are Ghost Pepper Chicken Fries, which will be available in 4-piece (suggested prices $1.99), 8-piece ($3.99) and 12-piece ($4.99) orders with a choice of dipping sauce (barbecue, buffalo, sweet and sour, honey mustard, ranch and zesty).

Burger King surveyed customers earlier in the year and asked whether restaurants should bring back the Ghost Pepper Whopper or introduce Ghost Pepper Chicken Fries, Burger King North America chief marketing officer Pat O’Toole said in a press release announcing the items . But the result was split so the chain is offering both.

“We’re excited for fans to have a new way to enjoy our signature Chicken Fries and bring back the Ghost Pepper Whopper with an eye-catching orange bun achieved with the use of paprika, showing that spook-tacular innovations don’t mean you have to sacrifice quality or flavor,” he said.

Beginning Friday and through Halloween, members of the Royal Perks loyalty program can order a meal with a Ghost Pepper Whopper, 4-piece Ghost Pepper Chicken Fry, small French fries, small fountain beverage and Hershey Sundae Pie for $13 (on bk.com or in the Burger King app). Want to skip the heat? The deal is also available with an original Whopper and Chicken Fries.

Ghost Pepper Whopper and Ghost Pepper Chicken Fries, nutrition information

Here are nutrition details on Burger King's Ghost Pepper Whopper, according to the restaurant chain.

• Calories: 850
• Total fat: 48 g (62% of daily value)
• Cholesterol: 115 mg (38%)
• Sodium: 1,670 mg (73%)
• Total carbohydrates: 62 g (23%)
• Protein: 44 g (80%)

Here are nutrition details on Burger King's Ghost Pepper Chicken Fries (8 pieces), according to the restaurant chain.

• Calories: 280
• Total fat: 17 g (22% of daily value)
• Cholesterol: 30 mg (10%)
• Sodium: 770 mg (33%)
• Protein: 44 g (88%)

What are Monster Tacos at Jack in the Box?

Monster Tacos (two for $3), which are larger than standard tacos, are a regularly returning limited-time menu item, and the new Angry Monster Tacos (two for $3), spicier tacos in "angry" red shells, are available until Nov. 19.

Here are nutrition details on Jack in the Box tacos (2 tacos), according to the restaurant chain.

• Calories: 340
• Total fat: 19 g (24% of daily value)
• Cholesterol: 25 mg (8%)
• Sodium: 720 mg (31%)
• Total carbohydrates: 33 g (12%)
• Protein: 12 g (24%)

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