Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain 2013

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R
Action Animation Crime Science Fiction

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.

Release Date 2013-06-22
Runtime 58m
Directors Masahiko Murata, Kazuchika Kise, Koji Tanaka, Eiji Inomoto, Yoshikazu Iwanami, Tetsuya Nishio
Producers Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Kimikazi Ueyama, Takuya Matsushita, Shinjiro Yokoyama, Ken Okawara, Junichiro Tsuchiya, Yoshihiro Furusawa, Tôru Kawaguchi, Kengo Abe, Mitsutoshi Arimoto, Tomohisa Nishimura, Yoshimoto Ishikawa
Writers Masahiko Murata, Tow Ubukata, Masamune Shirow