Ghost in the Shell

Director: Mamoru Oshii

1995 / 83min / DCP

“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, yielding to entropy and technocracy. Cyborg Major Kusanagi, a perfect specimen of human-brained computer engineering is on the case to track and destroy an omnipotent entity known as The Puppet Master—a hacker? a virus?—who threatens world order. Her physical and existential journey deftly detailed by Oshii’s animation, combining traditional hand-drawn cells and computer-generated graphics, creating a haunting, awe-inspiring magnum opus.

Distributor: Lionsgate