The government is not to be trusted, not at present and certainly not in the trippy future Japan of Ghost in the Shell.
The latest trailer for the upcoming rework of the seminal anime dropped this morning, evincing a vibe closer to The Bourne Identity than the far-out sci-fi from which the original drew inspiration. Kusanagi’s a rogue agent, on the loose and turning against her federal handlers, trying to recover all her memories so she can figure out whose hindquarters are most in need of kicking.
Ghost in the Shell comes to theaters on March 31 — whether that’s cause for celebration or panic among anime nerds will only become clear in time.
Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) has been led to believe that she endured some manner of terrible accident in life, and the police department salvaged her body by augmenting it with cybernetic implants.