Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society (2006)
dir: Kenji Kamiyama
The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead. Section 9 is confronted by the mysterious suicides of thirteen operatives of the disbanded Siak Republic in Indonesia, remnants of which found asylum in Japan. At the airport, they manage to catch up to Ka Gael (a former Siak colonel and son of Ka Rum, the exiled dictator of the Siak Republic) who has taken a hostage in the hope of gaining safe passage out of the country. Ka Gael says fearfully that "Kugutsu Mawashi", or "Puppeteer"Kugutsu Mawashi can be roughly translated to "Puppeteer". This is a different character from the Puppet Master of the original movie, whose consciousness merged with Motoko's. For the rest of the article, "Puppeteer" will be used in reference to "Kugutsu Mawashi"., is coming before shooting himself in the head.
Cast:
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Atsuko Tanaka
Motoko Kusanagi / Kuroma
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Osamu Saka
Daisuke Aramaki
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Akio Ôtsuka
Batou
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Kôichi Yamadera
Togusa
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Yutaka Nakano
Ishikawa
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Tôru Ôkawa
Saito
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Takashi Onozuka
Paz
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Taro Yamaguchi
Borma
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Sakiko Tamagawa
Tachikoma
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Oki Sugiyama
Proto
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Masahiro Ogata
Azuma
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Eri Oono
Operator
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Eiji Sekiguchi
Akafuku
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Yoshiko Sakakibara
Kayabuki
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Tesshô Genda
Nakamura Bucho
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Taimei Suzuki
Kubota
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Keisuke Ishida
Munei
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Masuo Amada
Ka Gae-Ru
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Ken Uo
Ma Shaba
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Mantarô Iwao
Raj Poot
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Nana Yamaguchi
Togusa Musume
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Kazuya Tatekabe
Tonoda
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Yuya Uchida
Koshiki
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Eiji Maruyama
Rojin
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Tarusuke Shingaki
Higaki
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Tôru Nara
Soga
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Tomomi Watanabe
Musen
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Tsuguo Mogami
Kenkei
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Atsushi Ono
Cyborg
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Bob Buchholz
Paz
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Richard Epcar
Batou
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Crispin Freeman
Togusa
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William Knight
Daisuke Aramaki
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Mona Marshall
Child - Episode 'Portraitz'
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Michael McCarty
Ishikawa
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Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Motoko Kusanagi
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Joshua Seth
Child - Episode 'Portraitz'
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Dean Wein
Boma
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Dave Wittenberg
Saito