Ghost in the Shell will be screening on Februaty 24,2012 at Cinema A. Ghost in a Shell literally is a”Mobile Armoured Riot Police,a Japanese multimedia franchise composed of manga, animated films, anime series video games and novels that focuses on the activities of counter terrorist organization.
The manga series has been adapted into two anime films,
Ghost in the Shell and Ghosy in the Shell 2: innocence, two anime television series,
Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic
police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motuko Kusinagi a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety known as Section 9 that specializes in fighting technology-related crimes. The setting of
Ghost in the Shell is cyberpunk. Kusanagi and her colleagues face external threats and also suffer internal conflict over their own natures.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known simply as
Innocence in Japan, is a 2004
science fiction film and sequel to
Ghosy in the Shell. The story was based on the original
Ghost in the Shell manga chapter,
Robot Rondo, albeit heavily modified from the original story. The story begins in the year 2032.
Batou, originally partnered with
Major Kusanagi, who disappeared at the end of the first film is now teamed with Togusa.
Public Security Section 9 investigates a cyborg-corporation called
LOCUS SOLUS and its gymoids—androids made in the form of young women and used as sex dolls—that have killed eight people. The dolls possessed a "ghost" that was created by using an illegal method using a "ghost-dubbing" machine that produces "information-degraded, high-volume copies", but killing the original in the process. Young girls were kidnapped by the Yakuza and sold to
LOCUS SOLUS for this process. Two of the girls conspire with a
LOCUS SOLUS shipping inspector, named Volkerson, to cause the malfunctions, and thus draw official attention to their plight.
In the climax of the film, when Batou is being overwhelmed by Locus Solus guards and gynoids killing each other, Kusanagi and Batou are reunited in the middle of a firefight when she downloads a part of her consciousness into an empty gynoid. After "Kusanagi" has fulfilled her task, she reassures Batou that she'll always be with him right before the gynoid deactivates. Yet, victorious Batou, when confronted with one of the girls he saved, doesn't share her joy and sternly remarks that she and Volkerson had no regard for "innocent" dolls they doomed to have personalities ("ghosts"), kill people and finally die from the hands of the law.
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