2013 · Japan
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
- police
- explosive
- cyborg
- arms dealer
- memory loss
- cyberpunk
- false memory
- seinen
- anime
The bill

Maaya Sakamoto
Motoko Kusanagi (voice)

Ikkyu Juku
Daisuke Aramaki (voice)

Kenichirou Matsuda
Batou (voice)

Kazuya Nakai
Borma (voice)
- Shunsuke Sakuya — Ishikawa (voice)
- Tomoyuki Dan — Ishikawa (voice)
- Takuro Nakakuni — Saito (voice)
- Tarusuke Shingaki — Togusa (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro — Logicoma (voice)
- Kenji Nojima — Tsumugi (voice)
- Yoji Ueda — Paz (voice)
- Directed
- Kazuchika Kise, Masahiko Murata
- Written
- Tow Ubukata
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 238 ratings
- Studio
- Bandai Visual, TOHO, Production I.G, Kodansha, FlyingDog, dentsu
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
2013 · You’re hereGhost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
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