Movies

Ghost in the Shell is the landmark 1995 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, adapting Masamune Shirow's manga. Slower and more contemplative than its source, it follows Major Motoko Kusanagi's pursuit of the elusive Puppet Master, a hunt…

A digital overhaul of the 1995 feature, issued in 2008 to mark the debut of The Sky Crawlers. The project rebuilt the original animation with newer tools including 3D computer graphics, while Kenji Kawai's score was rearranged and recorded…

Ghost in the Shell is the 2017 live-action adaptation of the franchise, directed by Rupert Sanders and led by Scarlett Johansson as the Major. It reframes the source material as the story of Mira Killian, a woman rebuilt by Hanka Robotics…

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is Mamoru Oshii's 2004 follow-up to the original anime film, a meditation on lifeless objects and figures as forms of artificial life. With the Major gone, a lonely, fully cybernetic Batou and a reluctant…

A live theatrical production drawn from the Arise continuity, staged in Tokyo across November 2015. It presented itself as the first Japanese show to weave 3D video into the live performance, handing audiences 3D glasses to watch actors…

A feature-length reassembly of the first season of the SAC_2045 series, brought to Netflix in 2022. It compresses the show's opening arc into one film that follows Major Kusanagi and Section 9 as they square off against a fresh menace.

A 2006 television feature in the Stand Alone Complex line, directed by Kenji Kamiyama. Set in 2034, it follows a reshaped Section 9 under Togusa as the team unravels a wave of suicides and child abductions tied to an elusive hacker known…

A theatrical recut of the Individual Eleven thread from the second Stand Alone Complex season, first shown in 2006. The film compresses the arc in which Section 9 pursues a terror cell whose attacks collide with a volatile refugee crisis.

A 2005 compilation feature that stitches the Laughing Man arc from the first Stand Alone Complex season into a single film. It retraces Section 9's hunt for a phantom hacker behind a chain of corporate extortion.

A 2015 science-fiction anime tied to the Arise reboot, carrying over that project's production team and most of its voice cast. Picking up after Arise, it drops Major Kusanagi's unit into a politically charged assassination case.

A single-date stage production that fused Ghost in the Shell with traditional Japanese Noh theatre and virtual-reality staging. It played once in Tokyo in October 2023, pairing classical performance with layered projection technology.