Ghost
in the Shell is 1995 Japan/US anime by Mamoru Oshii.
The 2.0 Redux Version was passed 15 uncut for the 2009 cinema release
and 2009 Manga DVD/Blu-ray.
The 2.0 Version has had mixed review from fans.
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article
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version
of its original 1995 counterpart. For the films Version 2.0 release, all
the original animations were re-produced with latest digital film and
animation technologies, such as 3D-CGI. The original soundtrack was also
re-organized and re-recorded.
Japanese music composer Kenji Kawai, who
orchestrated the score for the original 1995 production, remixed the
Version 2.0 soundtrack in 6.1 Channel Surround.
To complement the new soundtrack, Japanese
voice dialogue was also re-recorded, with some variation from the
original script to make use of more recent colloquial phrases in modern
speech. Notably, the original male voice actor for the character of the
Puppet Master, Iemasa Kayumi, has been replaced by the female
voice actor Yoshiko Sakakibara
Previously the Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for
the 1995 cinema release and 1996 Manga video.
Review from
US Amazon:
Nicely cleaned-up
A 1995 movie based on the manga that was called
by some the second coming of Akira. I can't help but agree with
that.
So here we are almost 15 years later and we now
have Ghost in the Shell 2.0, which is not a sequel but a redone
version of the first movie. The colors have been changed and some CG has
been brought in to replace the old animation.
The animation has been nicely cleaned-up. This
is one of the best animated Blu-rays out there, up there with Cars,
Wall-E, and Akira. While consistency is off
thanks to the new computer graphics, new colors and old animation, but
this is not the fault of the transfer.