Director: Mamoru Oshii
Scriptwriter: Kazunori Ito
after Masamune Shirow's manga
Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai
Production Design: Takashi Watabe
Animation Director: T. Nishikubo
Editor:
Sound: K. Wakabayashi
Music: Kenji Kawai
Cast:
Production:
I.G.
Distribution:
Metropolitan Filmexport
116 bis Champs Elysées
75008 Paris
France
Tel.: 0033 1565923
Fax.: 0033 156592310
Year: 1995
Screening: 2001
35 mm, Colour, 85 min, OV Japanese with French Subtitles.
Around year 2020 , thanks to advanced technology, the world is now without borders. Society is entirely dominated by the web and is kept under the control of a totally new form of police. The secret agent of the future is not human anymore. He gets his powers from the high ways of information. This is how Puppet Master becomes the perfect international spy. But soon he feels he is a/lve and makes his claim for a real physical existence, which is refused by his creators. A chase is organised to capture him. On his way, he meets major Motoko Kusanagi, a police woman who is the only one to decide whether Puppet Master will reach his aim: to become a human and live outside the web.