GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995 PUPPET MASTER SOFTWARE

It is surprisingly short on the usual qualities that anime junkies go for in terms of all-out action and massively scaled vistas of devastation. Ghost in the Shell is a certainly triumph of cerebral science-fiction over the visually spectacular for once.

The film is adapted from The Ghost in the Shell (1989-97) from Masamune Shirow who also created Appleseed (1985-9), which has fueled a number of other film adaptations. It is an interesting film, although one that perhaps falls a little short of the high praise that was lavished on it. Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese anime that crossed over to wow audiences and become a considerable cult success in the West. In a massive armed battle, Motoko discovers that The Puppet Master is a programme originally created by the Foreign Ministry to conduct covert diplomatic assignments but that it has instead become self-aware and is now claiming political asylum. It is discovered that she is a cyborg body that has been taken over by The Puppet Master. A woman is brought in after being found wandering naked on a highway.

GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995 PUPPET MASTER SOFTWARE

Section 6 operatives Batou and his partner Major Motoko Kusanagi, who has had her body 100% replaced by cyborg parts, trace the source of the hacking to a sanitation engineer who has been given software by someone he met in a bar and told that it will help him to locate his estranged wife, only for him to realise that the memories of his wife and child are entirely artificial implants. Section 6, the Japanese special forces, attempt to stop a super-hacker known as The Puppet Master who has hacked into the cyber-brain of one of the translators at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ghost in the shell 1995 puppet master