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The groundbreaking anime movie directed by Mamoru Oshii came out in 1995, adapted from Masamune Shirow's seminal manga It's probably the most complete and complex realization of the Cyberpunk genre as originated by William Gibson in his first novel Neuromancer The anime TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex premiered in 2002 and[...]

You could say that the anime movies of Akira and Masamune Shiro's Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii, did for anime in the West what Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns did for graphic novels in the same period in the 1980s, changing pop culture forever. "Akira" 4K UHD Blu-Ray cover art courtesy of Funimation Equipped[...]

Director Mamoru Oshii's award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Shirow Masamune, is lauded as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RF09G8YmqgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ghost in the Shell (1995 Movie) Official IMAX Trailer – Mamoru Oshii, Masamune Shirow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RF09G8Ymqg) The film has been remastered in visually[...]

Directed by Mamoru Oshii, the film follows a female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, as she hunts down a computer virus called The Puppet Master that can effect human hosts There will be a new deluxe edition of the remastered film released on March 7th on Blu-ray and digital HD.   The new adaptation of the[...]

Kazunori Itó is a writer who's comfortable with hardcore Science Fiction themes, having previously scripted Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor movies and Ghost in the Shell, and Shusuke Kaneko is a writer-director with a thoughtful, revisionist approach to genre, whether thrillers, Science Fiction or Horror He would go on to direct the live action movie version of[...]