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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

Animation · Action · Thriller · 2007

The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.

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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

2007 Animation · Action · Thriller 1h 45m

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TMDB

7.5 / 10

Community rating

The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Kenji Kamiyama

Written by

Kenji Kamiyama · Taiki Sakurai · Shoutarou Suga

Atsuko Tanaka

Atsuko Tanaka

Motoko Kusanagi (voice)

Osamu Saka

Osamu Saka

Daisuke Aramaki (voice)

Koichi Yamadera

Koichi Yamadera

Togusa (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Akio Otsuka

Batou (voice)

Yutaka Nakano

Yutaka Nakano

Ishikawa (voice)

Takashi Onozuka

Takashi Onozuka

Paz (voice)

Toru Okawa

Toru Okawa

Saito (voice)

Court is in session

Put Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Big-Idea Head

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.