![]() The story is loosely based on Ghost in the Shell manga chapter " Robot Rondo" (with elements of " Phantom Fund"). and a related novel called Ghost in the Shell: Innocence - After the Long Goodbye was released on February 29, 2004. The soundtrack for the film was released under the name Innocence O.S.T. It was also in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, making it the first and only anime in history to compete for the Palme d'Or. Innocence received the 2004 Nihon SF Taisho Award. The film's US box office performance had exceeded Go Fish Pictures' expectation. It was released in Japan on March 6, 2004, and was later released in the US on Septemby Go Fish Pictures. The film was co-produced by Production I.G and Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Toho and D-Rights, and distributed by Toho. The film serves as a standalone sequel to Oshii's 1995 film Ghost in the Shell and is loosely based on the manga by Masamune Shirow. It’s a thrillingly sordid world I can’t wait to revisit.Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known in Japan as just Innocence ( イノセンス, Inosensu), is a 2004 Japanese animated cyberpunk film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. Peel back the neon and artifice and there is a maze of cancerous concrete, cyborg chop shops and street dealers peddling implant upgrades. Both take Hong Kong as inspiration, but looming over this technotropolis are giant holographic figures, as imposing as gods, extorting the people below to buy a lifestyle. But most of all, Sanders pays tribute to the original anime. References include everything from Blade Runner to Chris Cunningham’s music video for Björk’s All Is Full of Love. The main selling point here is the film’s breathtaking visual impact. The Danish actor Pilou Asbæk is a solid presence as the Major’s partner, Batou, delivering an unexpectedly soulful turn for a muscle-bound lunk with metal eyes. Johansson dives deep into a tricky role, a character who is as much a sentient weapon as she is a human consciousness. And, crucially, it’s not so dumbed down that it loses the ghost of the original’s chilly techno-dread. The result may be a more conventional film, but it’s also a more accessible one. To this end, director Rupert Sanders has dialled down the introspection, beefed up the action and tweaked the enigmatic plot with a Wolverine-style origins story that sees augmented cybernetic cop Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson, a controversial piece of casting that drew accusations of “whitewashing” a Japanese character) delving into her own memory to learn the truth about her creation. That’s not a route this live-action Hollywood remake can afford to take. The film’s cult success came later, with the video release and slow-building word of mouth. The cerebral element and the languid pacing initially scared off the non-Japanese audience. What is the nature of identity when the brain is souped up with cyber-implants and the soul is reduced to a series of electrical impulses? (Incidentally, the question of why a cyborg would need a gigantic pair of knockers in the first place was left unanswered.) ![]() For every shot of a generously breasted naked cyborg plummeting from the top of a building, there was a scene in which characters grappled with knotty philosophical questions. But Ghost in the Shell was a challenging watch. ![]() Its influence was far-reaching – most notably on The Matrix. H ow do you improve on one of the greatest anime films ever made? The groundbreaking 1995 original Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on a manga series by Masamune Shirow, was a masterpiece. ![]()
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