#Ghost in the shell 1995 putlockers series#
It’s worth mentioning that I still haven’t read the original manga, which may or may not shed light on this unhelpfully, Stand Alone Complex, the anime series also adapted from the same source, is explicitly set in Japan. Every sign is in hanzi, without a scrap of hiragana or katakana that might suggest a Japanese setting. Despite the abundance of Japanese characters – Kusanagi, Ishikawa, Aramaki, et al – it clearly takes place in a Chinese-language location. I say “the territory in which the film is set” very carefully, as I’ve never been sure where exactly Ghost in the Shell takes place. Watching it again, I was struck by how in my memory I had entirely glossed over some of the details, like the preponderance of basset hounds or the subplot with Mares a foreign military colonel apparently defecting or escaping into the territory in which the film is set, who is accused or suspected of being the Puppet Master. Visually and narratively, it’s overstuffed with ideas and suggestions and implications. Ghost in the Shell is such an incredibly dense film.
The following review contains minor spoilers about the identity and goals of the film’s antagonist I recently had the opportunity to see it in a cinema for the first time, which presents a perfect moment to discuss the film here. Since then I’ve revisited it several times, with the original Japanese audio, both before and after I learned to speak the language.
I first saw Ghost in the Shell (1995) in the late ‘90s, on a probably-rented VHS, with the American dub (which, to my recollection, actually held up as one of the better dubs I’ve heard, though I haven’t tested that in years).
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