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Mamoru Oshii has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Ghost in the Shell.
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
2013
Action · Animation
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Iemasa Kayumi
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Koichi Yamadera
In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Keiichi Noda, Mako Hyodo, Jinpachi Nezu
A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi
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The year is 2030, and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the "Individual Eleven." With a sadistic intent of mass destruction, will they triumph in victory or discover the gloomy pitfalls of defeat?
Dir. Kenji Kamiyama · With Atsuko Tanaka, Osamu Saka, Koichi Yamadera
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.
Dir. Hiroyuki Okiura · With Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Sumi Mutoh, Hiroyuki Kinoshita
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Małgorzata Foremniak, Władysław Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko
A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Koichi Yamadera
As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Toshio Furukawa, Fumi Hirano, Akira Kamiya
Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, because they fight a war as entertainment, organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the reality they are faced with, they live their day-to-day lives to the full.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase, Shosuke Tanihara
