James Cameron, whose fingerprints will forever be imprinted on modern sci-fi, called Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell " the first truly adult animation film to reach a level of literary and visual excellence."
James Cameron, whose fingerprints will forever be imprinted on modern sci-fi, called Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell " the first truly adult animation film to reach a level of literary and visual excellence." Anime stans will surely take issue with such a sweeping statement, but his endorsement speaks to both the film's crossover appeal and the magnetism of its ideas. It follows Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg public-security agent in 2029 Japan, as she pursues a hacker known as the Puppet Master, but the film isn't about the hacker's threat so much as our fear of it. What happens when technology overwhelms humanity? Is it to be feared or embraced?