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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