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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2014)
The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
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The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
Rating:R
Genre:Action, Animation, Crime, Science Fiction
Written By:Tow Ubukata
In Theaters:10/28/2014
Box Office:
Runtime:58 minutes
Studio:Bandai Visual, TOHO, Production I.G, Kodansha, FlyingDog, dentsu
Cast
Masahiko Murata, Kazuchika Kise
Director
Maaya Sakamoto
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
Ikkyu Juku
Daisuke Aramaki (voice)
Kenichirou Matsuda
Batou (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Borma (voice)
Shunsuke Sakuya
Ishikawa (voice)
Tomoyuki Dan
Ishikawa (voice)
Takuro Nakakuni
Saito (voice)
Tarusuke Shingaki
Togusa (voice)
Miyuki Sawashiro
Logicoma (voice)
Kenji Nojima
Tsumugi (voice)
Yoji Ueda
Paz (voice)
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