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Nine years ago, writer/director Mamoru
Oshii’s widely influential Ghost in the Shell burst onto the
international film scene, becoming one of the most successful anime films of all
time. Now, Oshii returns with the long-awaited sequel Ghost in the Shell 2:
Innocence.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is set in 2032, when the line between
humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. Humans have
virtually forgotten what it means to be entirely human in both body and spirit,
and the few humans that are left coexist with cyborgs (human spirits inhabiting
entirely mechanized bodies) and dolls (robots with no human elements at all).
Batou is a cyborg. His body is artificial: the only remnants left of his
humanity are traces of his brain… and the memories of a woman called The Major.
A detective for the government’s covert anti-terrorist unit, Public Security
Section 9, Batou is investigating the case of a gynoid—a hyper-realistic female
robot created specifically for sexual companionship—who malfunctions and
slaughters her owner.
As Batou delves deeper into the investigation, questions arise about humanity’s
need to immortalize its image in dolls. Together, Batou and his partner must
take on violent Yakuza thugs, devious hackers, government bureaucrats and
corporate criminals to uncover the shocking truth behind the crime.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is the story of a solitary cyborg who
desperately wants to hold on to what’s left of his humanity in a world where the
worth of the human soul is fading almost into obscurity.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence was written and directed by Mamoru
Oshii based on an original story by Shirow Masamune. Mitsuhisa
Ishikawa and Toshio Suzuki produced the film. It is the second anime film to be
released under the banner of Go Fish Pictures, a division of DreamWorks
Pictures.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence was the first anime film ever to compete
for the Cannes International Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or. It also joined
the ranks of such animated classics as “Dumbo” (1947), “Peter Pan” (1953),
“Fantastic Planet” (1973), “Shrek” (2001) and “Shrek 2” (2004) to become only
the sixth animated film to compete at Cannes.
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