Tag: Ghost in the Shell

NEW ON BLU-RAY: “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man,” “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig: Individual Eleven,” “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society”  (Bandai) Animation historian Charles Solomon takes a look at three TV incarnations of the “Ghost in the Shell” universe. Mamoru Oshii’s landmark film “Ghost in the Shell” (1995) largely defined the cyberpunk genre and influenced the Wachowski Brothers‘ “Matrix” films. The movie follows cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi — who resembles a cross between the Terminator and a Playboy centerfold — as she fights and plots her way to the super-hacker known as the Puppet Master. At the end of the film, she vanishes into the cyberworld of the Net to explore the possibilities of existence without a physical body. The broadcast series “Ghost in the Shell: ...