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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man is a compilation film of the Laughing Man storyline in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Story[]

"The Laughing Man Incident" started off with a kidnap of Ernest Serano, the CEO of Serano Genomics in 2024, followed by blackmails targeting manufacturers of micromachines and medical equipment. It was just the first of a series of terrorist incidents aimed at corporations, and it's been speculated that the number of corporations targeted was the highest in the post-war period. Several conjectures circulated regarding the final purpose of the criminal: terrorism against cyber and prosthetics technology, a corporate conspiracy or simply a blackmailing scheme for money. But the reality was that nothing was identified concerning the incident: nothing about the criminal's nationality, sex, age, or even whether there was an accomplice or objective. The only clear fact was that the Laughing Man was a top-notch hacker.

One day, Police Investigator Yamaguchi, who was tracking the Laughing Man Incident, calls Togusa in Section 9. Yamaguchi dies mysteriously immediately afterwards. A few days later, the Laughing Man hijacks the broadcast of a police news conference to express regrets about the incident. Section 9 is dispatched to investigate the intentions of the invisible hacker known as "Laughing Man," who finally broke his silence.

Staff[]

  • Based on the Manga by: Shirow Masamune
  • Executive Producers: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Shigeru Watanabe
  • Director/Chief Writer: Kenji Kamiyama
  • Screenplay: Shotaro Suga, Junichi Fujisaku, Dai Sato, Yoshiki Sakurai
  • Sequence Director: Toshiyuki Kono
  • Layout: Hisaki Furukawa
  • Chief Animation Director: Takayuki Goto
  • Animation Directors: Kyoji Asano, Ryota Niino, Satoru Nakamura, Toshiharu Murata, Kenichi Yamaguchi, Shigeyuki Suga
  • Character Design: Makoto Shimomura
  • Mechanical Design: Kenji Teraoka and Shinobu Tsuneki
  • Art Director: Yusuke Takeda
  • Background Artist: Hiroshi Kato
  • Color Coordinator: Yumiko Katayama
  • Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami
  • Director of Photography: Koji Tanaka
  • 3D Director: Makoto Endo
  • Editing: Junichi Uematsu
  • Music: Yoko Kanno
  • Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
  • Animation Production: Production I.G
  • Production Adviser: Shirow Masamune
  • Produced by: Production I.G, Bandai Visual, Bandai Entertainment, Dentsu, Nippon Television Network, Victor Entertainment, Tokuma Shoten, Manga Entertainment

Cast[]

  • Motoko Kusanagi: Atsuko Tanaka
  • Batou: Akio Otsuka
  • Togusa: Koichi Yamadera
  • Daisuke Aramaki: Osamu Saka
  • Ishikawa: Yutaka Nakano
  • Saito: Toru Okawa
  • Paz: Takashi Onozuka
  • Boma: Taro Yamaguchi
  • Tachikoma: Sakiko Tamagawa

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