Arthouse: Ghost in the Shell (35mm)

JP 1995, 79 min., Director: Mamoru Oshii, OmU (original version with subtitles), FSK 16

"Newport City", Major Motoko Kusanagi, a female cyborg, is a member of an elite fighting force of the State Security Service and hunts down the "Puppet Master", a hacker who penetrates other people's consciousnesses and manipulates them at will. When the squad gets hold of him, the State Department also lays claim to the torso from which the "Puppet Master" operates. In order to find out its origins, Motoko penetrates its data memory. In the process, their personalities merge ...

Every month until the end of the year, we will be showing an anime film in cooperation with schauraum: comic+cartoon. As the second part of the series, we are presenting Ghost in the Shell, a classic science fiction anime on 35mm. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow.

You can find the reasons for the FSK classification HERE.