Ghost In The Shell Details

1996

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70
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Starring	Richard George, Mimi Woods, William Frederick, Abe Lasser
Director	Mamoru Oshii
Genres	Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Ghost In The Shell

Mamoru Oshil's futuristic animated masterpiece, Ghost In the Shell, is the perfect film to experience on DVD. Seamlessly merging traditional cel animation with the latest computer graphic imagery, this stunning sci-fi spectacle has broken the boundaries of mainstream animation with its detailed artistic direction and uniquely intelligent story line. Ghost In the Shell took the world by storm in 1996, introducing a new wave of Japanese animation through its mesmerizing cinematic expression. A movie that questions our own human existence in the fast-paced world of the information age, this remarkable, award-winning, cyber-tech thriller has gone on to become one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.

Starring	Richard George, Mimi Woods, William Frederick, Abe Lasser, Christopher Joyce, Michael Sorich
Director	Mamoru Oshii
Studio	MANGA ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 51 mins
Certificate
Genres	Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	Japanese
Dubbed	English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	English
Released	DVD: 28 Feb 2000 Production year: 1996
Format	DVD

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Spectacular-looking Japanese animated film, but one that, like so many of its kind, involves a confusing narrative and peculiar metaphysics that reduce interest in its depiction of a corrupt future.
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
"...Richly imagined....Slick and visually dazzling..."
- Sight and Sound
- Posted 11 Mar 2005
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I stopped watching after a few minutes, hated it. If this is the best Anime has to offer, I guess it's just not for me. The frame rate, for starters, was shockingly low! What was that, 5 frames per second??? It gave me headaches straight away! The animation has a few short good moments at important bits where they took extra care but is generally poor, no matter how you put it (unless, maybe, if you measure it against other cr*p Anime)!!! The other problem was the language; I just couldn't get into it with Japanese (I tried) and the American voices are laughable because the acting is so terrible! All this made me withdraw from the action and I was having to make a huge effort to understand what was going on so I just stopped wasting my time and sent it back.
- - pEst31 from London
  - Posted 12 May 2008 14:50
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Ghost

Not as good second time around.
- - GADGET213 from Birmingham
  - Posted 01 Jul 2009 20:44
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Speilberg sees 3-D Ghost
- 15 Apr 2008
Dreamworks grand fromage Steven Spielberg has personally led the company's bid to acquire the rights to Japanese magna classic Ghost In The Shell and the legendary Jaws director now plans to turn it into a 3-D live-action thriller, according to reports. Showbiz newspaper Variety says Spielberg, whose other credits include cinema classics ET, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, saw to it that his production company secured the rights to the project over rivals Sony and Universal. Ghost In... Read more
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