Ghost in the Shell : Episode 15
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | RSS
Stream the movie:
iTunes | Amazon
Get the Blu-ray:
Amazon
Get the DVD:
Amazon
Ghost in the Shell
What: In 2029 a special cybernetically-enhanced police force goes after a brain hacker.
Directed by: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Tamio Ôki, Akio Ôtsuka
Recommended and Related Media
Ghost in the Shell (Original Manga)
The source material is much longer and sexier. The “Puppermaster” storyline from the movie was but one piece of the manga.
Get the thing Amazon
Ghost in the Shell – All the Other Movies and TV Shows
Since the original came out in 1995, there’s a whole huge giant pile of more stuff, and it’s all really good!
Start with Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex iTunes | Amazon
The Matrix
You know this movie. Takes a lot stylistically form GitS.
Get the thing iTunes | Amazon
Show Notes
Anime
We watched a lot of it in highschool. How this film transcends the norm. Timeline of anime and the cyberpunk aesthetic.
Influence
The influences that went into this movie. The huge influence this movie had on everything after.
Plot
For once we have to lay out the plot of the movie in detail, because it’s kind of complicated!
The Opening Scene
Awesome. Exploding heads. Japanese pornography laws. Encryption as armament.
Cybernetics/Cyborgs
The spectrum on jacked-in-ness in the movie. Taxonomy of androids, cyborgs, and robots.
The Soul/Ghost
Mind-body dualism. The treatment of consciousness in the film.
Evolution in Binary
Emergent AI. What is life? Evolution of digital life forms.
Goodbyes
And where shall I go now?
The net is vast and limitless.
Feedback? Please Contact Us
Amazon and iTunes links include our affiliate codes. If you wouldn’t mind helping us out a tiny bit, go ahead and use them to buy/stream something. Thanks! 🙂