Directed by legendary anime director Mamoru Oshii, it is an award-winning film that has established itself as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.

Um so toller ist es, dass die Collectors Edition neben dem Film in UHD und als Standard-Blu ray auch den Soundtrack enthält. For a synopsis and appreciation of the film, please see Jeff Kauffman's review of the standard 4K edition, which also contains links to several other entries in the franchise's history. The bustling streets come alive with traffic and crowd noises, and the 'Net sequences buzz with immersive intensity, drawing you into the futurescape nicely, whilst latter actions scenes boom with the punishing power of that unstoppable tank, as countless shells are expended. Ghost in the Shell tells the tale of a female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations, who are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts.Ultra HD , Blu-ray , Dolby Atmos , Dolby Vision , Funimation , Funimation Limited Edition , Ghost in the Shell , HDR , Mamoru Oshii , Manga Entertainment , Manga Entertainment Collector Sets , Production I. Ghost in the Shell was shot mostly on 35 mm photochemical film using traditional hand-drawn animation techniques, with some CG animation and digital post production. All of the hand-painted cels and background layouts look spectacular, offering more image detail than ever (and more than you might suspect). Back in 1995, I was only three years old, the very first Sony PlayStation entered the console war internationally, and Windows released an operating system whose programs are still running parts of the NHS to this day. The whole wonderful future-world that Shirow imagined and Oshii realised - and the iconic character of Motoko Kusanagi herself - remain indelible, landmark images in the sci-fi landscape.

For the week that ended on September 12th, Warner Home Entertainment's Superman: Man of Tomorrow took at the number-one spot on the Blu-ray-only and overall package-media sales charts. version for it's updated digital technology, though the difference is not night and day visually speaking except for some scenes. For the rest of you, this disc represents Ghost in the Shell looking and sounding better than you have ever seen or heard it before… and by no small margin.

In 1995, Ghost in the Shell, based on the popular manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow, took audiences by surprise, tackling existential themes and philosophical dilemmas that were novel and subversive at the time.