Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

* Closed Shell Syndrome, a fictional disease in the Ghost in the Shell television series

Mamoru Oshii released the internationally acclaimed philosophical science fiction action film Ghost in the Shell in 1996.

In 2004, Mamoru Oshii released the anime movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence which received critical praise around the world.

Two anime television series, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: S. A. C.

In 2003, Kodansha published Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, a collection of manga chapters previously unreleased by Shirow.

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

Since the film's success abroad, most Ghost in the Shell media has been translated and released in English-speaking territories, including the anime series, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, and the United Kingdom's AnimeCentral.

Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission known as Section 9.

The setting of Ghost in the Shell is cyberpunk or postcyberpunk.

The first entry in the franchise was Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga, first published in 1989 in Young Magazine.

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

The manga was first adapted into a theatrical anime film adaptation in 1995, titled Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii.

The film was followed by a theatrical film sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, produced in 2004, which was also directed by Oshii and places the character of Batou in the lead role.

The new version premiered on 12 July 2008 in Japan as Ghost in the Shell 2. 0.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama and produced by Production I. G, airing on Animax from 1 October 2002 to 25 March 2003 with a total of 26 episodes.

* Patrick Drazen: A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition: from Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga.

WOWOW mostly rebroadcasts movies, but is also well known for showing ( and even co-producing and / or assisting in the production of ) original anime series such as Big O, Brain Powerd, Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran, Trinity Blood, Cowboy Bebop ( the complete uncut version ), Shinreigari / Ghost Hound, Crest of the Stars, Ergo Proxy, X / 1999, SHUFFLE !, Paranoia Agent, and Le Chevalier d ' Eon, as well as the Anime Complex block.

* Patrick Drazen: A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition: from Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga.

She was a Guest of Honor at Anime Expo 2007, Long Beach, and won the 2007 American Anime Award for Best Female Voice Actress for her role as Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

In the Manga / Anime Ghost in the Shell, people who have had their bodies damaged or people who can simply afford it have their normal bodies replaced with a full prosthetic replacement.

* In the United States, Sentai Filmworks has announced that they have licensed the Ghost Sweeper Mikami anime, presenting it via Video on demand on the Anime Network starting December 2, 2010.

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

He has remained active well into his nineties, with roles in recent films such as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer.

Sinatra starred in three teen musicals ( otherwise known as ' beach party ' films ) — For Those Who Think Young ( 1964 ), Get Yourself a College Girl ( 1964 ) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini ( 1966 ) — the latter of which featured her in a singing role.

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Other popular films he starred during these decade were Falling Down, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Game ( directed by David Fincher ), and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic – Dial M for Murder – titled A Perfect Murder.

His most successful films included The Ghost Goes West ( 1935 ), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), for which he received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ).

Among their most popular films are Buck Privates, Hold That Ghost, Who Done It ?, Pardon My Sarong, The Time of Their Lives, Buck Privates Come Home, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man.

After working as Allen's summer replacement, Abbott and Costello joined Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1941, while two of their films ( Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost ) were adapted for Lux Radio Theater.

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He has also starred in the independent films Mr. Fix It and Suffering Man's Charity ( released on DVD as Ghost Writer ), as well as the direct-to-DVD sequel The Crow: Wicked Prayer in which he starred alongside Tara Reid.

Gervais has also starred in Hollywood films, Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying.

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The coffee shop in the beginning of the film, called Quality Cafe, appears in many films, including Old School, Se7en, Ghost World, Sex and Death 101, Gone in 60 Seconds, and Catch Me If You Can.

It also enabled filmmakers to enhance the visual quality of animation, resulting in films such as Ghost in the Shell ( 1995 ) from Japan, and The Iron Giant ( 1999 ) from the US.

An associate member of the renowned experimental theater company The Wooster Group, Buscemi has starred and supported in successful Hollywood and indie films including New York Stories, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Con Air, Armageddon, The Grey Zone, Ghost World and Big Fish ; and the HBO television series The Sopranos.

Nupen made other films featuring du Pré, including Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto, a documentary featuring a live performance of the Elgar ; and The Ghost, with Barenboim and Zukerman in a performance of the " Ghost " Piano Trio in D major, by Beethoven.

She continued to make occasional film appearances, usually in supporting roles, including such popular films as The Nun's Story ( 1959 ), Tom Jones ( 1963 ) and Scrooge ( 1970, as the Ghost of Christmas Past ).

First released on 15 May 2003, the same day as The Matrix Reloadeds North American release, Enter the Matrix gives players control of two of the supporting characters in that film, Ghost and Niobe, members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo, the protagonists in the films.

Unlike Frankenstein and Dracula, and other, later Universal horror films, this film had no sequels, but rather was semi-remade in the 1940's b-film The Mummy's Hand ( 1940 ), and its sequels, The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ), The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ), which were later spoofed in 1950's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.

Though the title suggests Universal Pictures ' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two later Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost.

Douglas is known for her part in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear ( 1991 ) – one of four Scorsese films in which she has appeared – plus her starring role as singer-songwriter Denise Waverly in Allison Anders ' Grace of My Heart ( 1996 ) and supporting roles in To Die For ( 1995 ) and Ghost World ( 2001 ).

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.