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| Atsuko Tanaka | ... | Major Motoko Kusanagi (voice) | |
| Richard Epcar | ... | Bateau (voice: English version) (as Richard George) | |
| Akio Ôtsuka | ... | Batô (voice) | |
| Tamio Ôki | ... | Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki (JPN) (voice) | |
| Iemasa Kayumi | ... | Project 2501 aka 'The Puppet Master' (voice) | |
| Kôichi Yamadera | ... | Togusa (voice) | |
| Tesshô Genda | ... | Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura (voice) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Richard Barnes | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Murray Williams) | |
| Steve Blum | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Roger Canfield) | |
| Steve Bulen | ... | Section 9 Staff Cyberneticist / Coroner (voice: English version) | |
| Toni Burke | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Richard Cansino | ... | Diplomat (voice: English version) (as Steve Davis) | |
| Tom Carlton | ... | Garbage Collector A (voice: English version) | |
| George Celik | ... | Old Man (voice: English version) | |
| Shigeru Chiba | ... | Garbage Collector B (voice) | |
| Gina Connell | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Stephen Davis | ... | Diplomat (voice: English version) | |
| Dorothy Gabriel | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Dougary Grant | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Michael Porter) | |
| Leo Gray | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Meg Hamilton | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Christopher Joyce | ... | Togusa (voice: English version) | |
| William Knight | ... | Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki (voice: English version) (as William Frederick) | |
| Namaki Masakazu | ... | Dr.Willis (voice) | |
| Joan Mason | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Takashi Matsuyama | ... | Terrorist (voice) | |
| Joe Michael | ... | (voice: English version) | |
| Mitsuru Miyamoto | ... | Daita Mizuho (voice) | |
| Gilbert Navarro | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Shinji Ogawa | ... | Notorious Diplomat (voice) | |
| Gloria Oldman | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Ben Parks | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Scott Prensor | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Simon Prescott | ... | Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura (voice: English version) (as Ben Isaacson) | |
| Debra Rogers | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as S.J. Charvin) | |
| Joe Romersa | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Joe Michaels) | |
| Maaya Sakamoto | ... | Motoko (Girl) (voice) | |
| Donald Salin | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Lia Sargent | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Sam Sheffer | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) | |
| Michael Sorich | ... | Ishikawa (voice: English version) (as Mike Sorich) | |
| Peter Spellos | ... | Bad Guy (voice: English version) (as David Conrad) | |
| Skip Stellrecht | ... | Minister (voice: English version) (as Hank Smith) | |
| Doug Stone | ... | Garbage Collector B (voice: English version) | |
| Jimmy Theodore | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Stephen Platt) | |
| Yûji Ueda | ... | Assault-Unit Operator (voice) | |
| Phil Williams | ... | Dr. Willis (voice: English version) | |
| Amy Wong | ... | Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Amy Wong) | |
| Mimi Woods | ... | Major Motoko Kusanagi (voice: English version) | |
| Tom Wyner | ... | Project 2501 / Puppet Master (voice: English version) (as Abe Lasser) | |
| Kazuhiro Yamaji | ... | Garbage Collector A (voice) | |
| Masato Yamanouchi | ... | Foreign Minister (voice) | |
Directed by | |||
| Mamoru Oshii | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Kazunori Itô | writer | |
| Masamune Shirow | comic | |
Original Music by | |||
| Kenji Kawai | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Hisao Shirai | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Shuichi Kakesu | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Takashi Watabe | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Hiromasa Ogura | |||
Production Management | |||
| Ryuji Mitsumoto | .... | production manager | |
Art Department | |||
| Makiko Kojima | .... | ink and paint: Production I.G. | |
Sound Department | |||
| Arman Boyles | .... | sound mix assistant | |
| Les Claypool III | .... | additional sound effects (as Les E. Claypool) | |
| Les Claypool III | .... | post-production sound supervisor (as Les E. Claypool) | |
| Sean England | .... | foley recordist (2008 special edition) | |
| Shuji Inoue | .... | sound recording engineer | |
| Kurt Kassulke | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Hironori Ono | .... | sound effects assistant | |
| Paul Ratajczak | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Kazutoshi Satou | .... | sound effects | |
| Kazuhiro Wakabayashi | .... | sound director | |
| Akira Yoda | .... | sound associate | |
| Masatoshi Yokomizo | .... | sound associate | |
Special Effects by | |||
| Mutsu Murakami | .... | special effects | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Tetsuo Kaneko | .... | opticals | |
| Masao Shibata | .... | opticals | |
Animation Department | |||
| Masahiro Andô | .... | animator | |
| Koichi Arai | .... | animator | |
| Shinji Arakawa | .... | animator | |
| Miho Asatani | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Hisashi Eguchi | .... | animator | |
| Toyoaki Emura | .... | animator | |
| Masumi Ezaki | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Akiyo Fujiwara | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Keiko Hagimori | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Hideki Hamazu | .... | animator | |
| Takashi Hashimoto | .... | animator | |
| Sachiyo Hiraide | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Kazuya Hoshi | .... | animator | |
| Katsuki Ikeda | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Seong-kim Im | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Toshiyuki Inoue | .... | animator | |
| Akiharu Ishii | .... | animator | |
| Mitsuo Iso | .... | animator | |
| Yoshiyuki Itô | .... | animator | |
| Hiroyo Izumi | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Yûko Kami | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Shôji Kawamori | .... | mechanical designer | |
| Kumiko Kawana | .... | animator | |
| Hiroshi Kawasaki | .... | animator | |
| Moon-hee Kim | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Soon-ah Kim | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Yoon-sook Kim | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Kazuchika Kise | .... | animator | |
| Kazuchika Kise | .... | key animation supervisor | |
| Kôji Komurakata | .... | animator | |
| Yûko Koyama | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Jae-sook Lee | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Seok-min Lee | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Nobuko Mizuta | .... | cel checker | |
| Namiko Mori | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Yasushi Muraki | .... | animator | |
| Kayoko Nabeta | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Akiko Nagashima | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Mika Nakabayashi | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Rieko Nakai | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Tamaki Nakatsu | .... | assistant to animation director | |
| Toshihiko Nishikubo | .... | animation director | |
| Yasuhiro Ohshima | .... | animator | |
| Tensai Okamura | .... | animator | |
| Hiroyoshi Ôkawa | .... | animator | |
| Hiroyuki Okiura | .... | animator | |
| Hiroyuki Okiura | .... | character designer | |
| Hiroyuki Okiura | .... | key animation supervisor | |
| Tetsuhito Saitô | .... | animator | |
| Mamoru Sasaki | .... | animator | |
| Masahiro Satô | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Kanami Sekiguchi | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Mitsumi Shitani | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Itsuko Takeda | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Kyôko Taketani | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Atsushi Takeuchi | .... | animator | |
| Atsushi Takeuchi | .... | mechanical designer | |
| Yuichi Tanaka | .... | animator | |
| Manabu Tanzawa | .... | animator | |
| Takashi Watabe | .... | background designer | |
| Keiko Watanabe | .... | inbetween artist: DR Movie | |
| Sawako Yajima | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Yayoi Yamashita | .... | cel checker | |
| Yoshio Yamazaki | .... | inbetween artist: Production IG | |
| Miyako Yatsu | .... | animator | |
| Masayuki Yoshiwara | .... | animator | |
| Kumiko Yusa | .... | color setter | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Hiroaki Hirabayashi | .... | color timer | |
| Takeshi Imai | .... | assistant editor | |
| Yayoi Ohtake | .... | assistant editor | |
| Shigeyuki Yamamori | .... | assistant editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Mamoru Akimoto | .... | production scheduler | |
| Paul C. Halbert | .... | translator: English | |
| Nobuhiro Hayashi | .... | translation coordinator | |
| Mitsuo Iso | .... | weapons designer | |
| Naoki Kanazawa | .... | video effects | |
| Hirokazu Karasawa | .... | weapons advisor | |
| Yumiko Katayama | .... | color section | |
| Ayako Koike | .... | title designer | |
| Megumi Maeda | .... | production scheduler | |
| Yutaka Maseba | .... | translation coordinator | |
| Mary Mason | .... | adr script | |
| Haruo Mizuno | .... | production coordinator | |
| Kikuo Notomi | .... | weapons advisor | |
| Toru Nozaki | .... | advertising | |
| Shuichi Satou | .... | color section | |
| Kevin Seymour | .... | adr script (as Quint Lancaster) | |
| Kevin Seymour | .... | voice director | |
| Teruhisa Tajima | .... | title designer | |
| Shigeyuki Tsuchida | .... | video effects | |
| Taro Yoshida | .... | translation coordinator | |
| Taro Yoshida | .... | translator: English | |
| Tomio Yoshioka | .... | international coordinator | |
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"Ghost in the Shell" is an intricate masterpiece of cyber-punk fiction and storytelling, successfully melding intriguing philosophical ideas with a coherent, well thought-out (albeit) confusing plot.
Even more, it's a nightmarish vision of a society that's dominated by cyberspace and looking back now, is eerily prescient of today's computerized times. Many of the characters in the film are enhanced, someway or another by machines, to help them get the advantage in a vastly changing society.
I'll avoid going real deep into the plot simply because there's a whole lot to grasp and even I got more than a little confused trying to follow it. The story is that a team of high-level government operatives are hot on the trail of a notorious computer hacker called the "Puppet Master," who is wanted for various crimes in cyberspace and has taken a particularly fond interest in the team's tough, female cyborg leader.
Not surprisingly, as with the stigmas surrounding Anime', "Ghost in the Shell" is not short of nudity and graphic violence. But it's far from being gratuitous, and does not slow down the movie at all.
"Ghost in the Shell" was one of the first Anime' films to skillfully blend traditional drawn animation with computerized imagery. This helps to give the film a surreal, yet beautiful look. And the dialogue helps sometimes too, with helping to sort out the confusing plot and many of its mythical ideas about personal identity and human evolution.
This film is also even more revered today, in 2004, since some of this film's core themes helped to develop the plot basis of the insanely popular "Matrix" films, and some scenes from "Ghost in the Shell" were even homaged to in the first "Matrix" movie. The Wachowski Brothers certainly do owe a lot to this movie for the success of their work in America.
I think that to understand "Ghost in the Shell," it would help to accept that Anime' is much more complex and daring than traditional American animation. Most Japanese animation films, like this one, "Akira," or Mayazaki's "Spirited Away," are on a level of sophistication that will never be matched in America.
It has been said that the majority of American audiences would be afraid of Anime' because of the many stereotypes surrounding it, but that's why it's boundless - it's been given free reign to use those stigmas to its advantage in developing truly remarkable pieces of art that have gone largely ignored here in the U.S. "Ghost in the Shell" could very well be a mere reflection or a parable of a doomed society that's probably already accepted its dark fate. Most American animation would never touch up on this sort of subject matter.
"Ghost in the Shell" is my #3 choice Anime' film (behind "Spirited Away" and "Akira") because it's so full of ideas and is masterful in telling a dark story about our times.
10/10