Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

About Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013) is an animation crime film directed by Kazuchika Kise and Masahiko Murata. It runs 58 minutes and was released in June 2013.

Its themes are cyberpunk, memory loss, cyborg, and seinen.

Maaya Sakamoto takes the lead as Motoko Kusanagi (voice), Ikkyu Juku as Daisuke Aramaki (voice), Kenichirou Matsuda as Batou (voice), and Kazuya Nakai as Borma (voice). The screenplay is by Tow Ubukata. It streams on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel in the United States.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears, Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven make useful companions to Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain, all filed under false memory. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 246 votes and it carries a R rating.