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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.
Movie Tagline:
It Found A Voice... Now It Needs A Body
Title: Kokaku Kidotai
Release Date: March 29, 1996
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thriller
Languages: Japanese, English, Spanish
Country: Japan, USA
Colors: Color, Color
Sound: Dolby
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Brimstone Pit Rating: 8.8 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With K
MPAA Rating: 12
Director(s):
Mamoru Oshii
Cast:
Atsuko Tanaka ...Major Motoko Kusanagi (voice)
Richard Epcar ......
Akio Otsuka ...Bato (voice)
Tamio Oki ...Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki (JPN) (voice)
Iemasa Kayumi ...Project 2501 aka 'The Puppet Master' (voice)
Koichi yamadera ...Togusa (voice)
Tessho Genda ...Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura (voice)
Richard Barnes ...Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as...
Steve Blum ...Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as...
Steve Bulen ...Section 9 Staff Cyberneticist / Coroner (voice:...
Toni Burke ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Richard Cansino ......
Tom Carlton ...Garbage Collector A (voice: English version)
George Celik ...Old Man (voice: English version)
Shigeru Chiba ...Garbage Collector B (voice)
Gina Connell ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Stephen Davis ...Diplomat (voice: English version)
Dorothy Gabriel ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Dougary Grant ...Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as...
Leo Gray ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Meg Hamilton ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Christopher Joyce ...Togusa (voice: English version)
William Knight ...Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki (voice: English...
Namaki Masakazu ...Dr.Willis (voice)
Joan Mason ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Takashi Matsuyama ...Terrorist (voice)
Joe Michael ... (voice: English version)
Mitsuru Miyamoto ...Daita Mizuho (voice)
Gilbert Navarro ...Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Shinji Ogawa ...Notorious Diplomat (voice)
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
Andy Frain
Laurence Guinness
Makoto Ibuki
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Ken Iyadomi
Ken Matsumoto
Teruo Miyahara
yoshimasa Mizuo
Takashi Mogi
yasushi Sukeof
Shigeru Watanabe
Hiroshi yamazaki
Writer(s):
Kazunori Ito
Masamune Shirow
Composer(s):
Kenji Kawai
Trailer(s):
Kokaku Kidotai Horror Film Trailer 1
Kokaku Kidotai Horror Film Trailer 2
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"See You Everyday"
"One Minute Warning"
More Movie Taglines:
- It Found A Voice... Now It Needs A Body
- Humans love machines in 2029 A.D.
- Mamoru Oshii's Animated Thriller
- Who are you? Who slips into my robot body and whispers to my ghost?
- It found a voice... now it needs a body
Movie Quote(s):
- Major Motoko Kusanagi: I mean, have you ever actually seen your brain?
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Major Motoko Kusanagi, Puppet Master: And where does the newborn go from here? The net is vast and infinite.
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Puppet Master: I refer to myself as an intelligent life form because I am sensioned and I am able to recognize my own existence, but in my present state I am still incomplete. I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms: reproducing and dieing. Major Motoko Kusanagi: But you can copy yourself. Puppet Master: A copy is just an identical image. There is the possibility that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems and copies do not give rise to variety and originality. Life perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information, only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.
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[last lines] Major Motoko Kusanagi: I wonder where I'll go now. The net is vast and infinite.
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Puppet Master: Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
Movie Trivia:
- First anime film to be released at the same time in Japan, Britain, and the United States. Its intended goal was to bring anime to a more mainstream audience in the UK and the US. It didn't, but it did become a sleeper hit on video and DVD.
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Director Trademark: [Mamoru Oshii] Basset Hound.
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The lyrics to the title song "Making of a Cyborg" were written in ancient Japanese. The romanized Japanese lyrics are as follows: A ga maeba, kuwashime yoini keri A ga maeba, teru tsuki toyomu nari Yobai ni kami amakudarite Yoha ake, nuedori naku. Tôkamiemitame (x4). English translation: When you are dancing, a beautiful lady becomes drunken. When you are dancing, a shining moon rings. A god descends for a wedding And dawn approaches while the night bird sings. God bless you (x4).
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The following dialogue from the film is a direct quotation from the Bible (I Corinthians 13): "When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete as complete as God's knowledge of me".
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In ordinary anime, characters would at least blink to create the feeling of "being animated", but in this movie, Motoko's eyes intentionally stayed unblinking many times. Director Mamoru Oshii's intention was to portray her as a "doll".
IMDB Links:
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Keywords:
Cyborg, Hacker, Dystopia, Blood, False Memory ...[more]
Keywords All:
Implanted Memory, Major, Police Raid, Future, Diving, Robot, Watermelon, Helicopter, Market, Exploding Head, Artificial Intelligence, Based On Manga, Erased Memory, Race Against Time, Soul, Deliberate Cruelty, Splatter, Virtual Reality, Cyberspace, Invisibility, Yakuza, Virtuality, Violence, Nudity, Female Nudity, Computer, Garbage Truck, Explosion, Surrealism, Based On Comic, Science Runs Amok, Paranoia, Crime Fighter, Computer Cracker, Soldier, Basset Hound, Cult Cartoon, Cult Favorite, Cyberpunk, Half Human, Bare Breasts, Doppelganger, Synthetic Human, Machine Gun, Robot As Pathos, Anime
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Rating: 8.8 out of 10.0 - 53 votes cast total
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