If you loved Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers, try Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
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What they share
Both films are directed by Kazuchika Kise, and they both carry the neon soaked mood tag, and they sit in Action / Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain is
You're Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg mercenary in a war-torn city. An arms-dealing scandal erupts, and then a bombing. But you're soon a suspect. Kusanagi's past and future blur. The film considers what remains of humanity when so much is mechanized.
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