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 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

2008 Japanese anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii

1999 film by Hiroyuki Okiura

1985 OVA film by Mamoru Oshii

其中第一话《交错的时空》由望月望月智充，第二话《迷宫物件FILE538》由押井守监督，主题是时间和迷宫的无限循环。 《迷宫物件》是日本动画大师押井守的早期作品集。迷宫物件是一部实验性质很重的作品。这点不但可以从其内容看出，更反映在这部动画的制作方式。基本上本片大部分的画面都是静止的，完全靠著声优千叶繁的独白来带领观众——这点跟天使之卵是完全相反。更值得注意的是，大部分的静止画面根本就是拿照片经过高反差处理后再涂色而成。所以有人看完戏说：原来用幻灯片就可以拍成动画啊。这种颠覆动画制作的方式在之后被庵野秀明发扬光大，无论是从EVA中开始出现写实照片，到男女翘翘版的完全废弃赛璐络片的演出都可以看出。

2000 film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo

A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.

In 2030 AD, even if the intention to run around as light and electrons is concentrated in one direction as the computerization becomes generalized and the information network becomes more sophisticated, by the time the "lonely person" becomes an "individual" as a complex. Is an era when it is not computerized. It depicts the activities of the "Public Security Section 9" (commonly known as "Ghost in the Shell"), which was established as an independent counterintelligence unit under the direct control of the Ministry of Home Affairs to counter complicated crimes. There are a wide variety of top-secret missions such as cybercrime investigation, terrorism deterrence / arrest, VIP protection, and corruption detection, but one incident emerges as it is carried out.

The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze...