TY - ADVS AU - Itō,Kazunori AU - Oshii,Mamoru AU - Shirow,Masamune ED - Kōdansha. ED - Bandai Visual Co. ED - Manga Entertainment, Inc. TI - Ghost in the shell U1 - DVD 912A PY - 2004///?] CY - Lincolnshire, IL. PB - Manga Entertainment KW - Shirow, Masamune KW - Cyborgs KW - Drama KW - Computer hackers KW - Animated films KW - Detective and mystery films N1 - Based on the Manga by Masamune Shirow; Japanese version originally produced as a motion picture in 1995 ; English dubbed version produced in 1998; Special features include: The making of Ghost in the shell (30 min.) ; theatrical trailer; Screenplay, Kazunori Ito ; animation director, Toshihiko Nishikubo ; music Kenji Kawai; Contains graphic violence, language and brief nudity. PG 15 N2 - In a world caught in the grip of information overload, Major Kusanagi is an elite officer and heavily modified cybernetic agent. She is on the trail of a computer-criminal who turns people into human marionettes, controlled by computer. She discovers that his true identity lies at the center of a vast and lethal political conspiracy ER -