Ghost in the Shell

Mamoru Oshii’s beautifully animated and disturbingly prophetic anime classic about the hunt for a supreme hacker in a transhumanist dystopia.

  • Director

    Mamoru Oshii

  • With

    Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Koichi Yamadera and Yutaka Nakano

  • Japan 1995. 89min

  • IMAX with laser

  • Certificate

    15

  • Japanese with English subtitles

Director Oshii’s stunning animated 2029-set anime classic centres on Public Security Section 9’s hunt for supreme hacker The Puppet Master. This is a world where governments are dependent on computer controlled systems, and cyber terrorists pose the biggest threat to global stability.

Ghost in the Shell remains one of the most influential anime films of all time, partly made in response to Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal 1988 Akira, and inspiring a continuing franchise as well as a Hollywood live-action remake with Scarlett Johansson. Yet it’s Oshii’s original vision that remains the most powerfully prophetic, raising philosophical questions around transhumanism that are more relevant than ever.

We are delighted to screen the remastered IMAX with Laser digital 4K Ghost in the Shell on the UK’s largest screen.