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Released
1995 · FILM

Ghost in the Shell

Major Motoko Kusanagi leads her elite cyber‑ops unit to stop a rogue hacker who’s hijacking augmented minds and threatening a high‑stakes diplomatic summit, forcing her to confront a shadowy mastermind before the city’s fragile peace collapses.

“It found a voice... Now it needs a body.”

Directed by
Mamoru Oshii
Written by
Shirow Masamune, Kazunori Ito
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
83 min
Language
JA
ActionAnimationCrime

Synopsis

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 40

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tsuyoshi ImaiShot by Hisao ShiraiScored by Kenji KawaiDesigned by Takashi Watabe

Box Office

1995 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.0M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Ghost in the Shellde
  • Ghost in the shellen
  • Ghost in the Shelles
  • Ghost in the Shellfr
  • Ghost in the Shellit
  • Kôkaku Kidôtaija

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