Director: Mamoru Oshii
Script: Mamoru Oshii
Original idea: Masamune Shirow
Animation Director: T. Nishikubo, Naoko Kusumi
Artistic Director: Shuichi Hirata
Cinematographer : Sakuma Miki
Settings: Taneda Yohei
Music: Kenji Kawai
Production:
IG
Minami Bldg 3-22-31
Minami-cho
Kokubunji-shi
Tokyo 185-0021 - Japan
Distribution:
UIP
1 rue Meyerbeer
75009 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.40.07.38.38
Fax: 01.40.07.38.39
www.uipfrance.com
Year: 2004
Screening: 2005
35 mm, Colour, 100 min
OV Japanase with French Subtitles
Japanese Animation
Cannes Film Festival 2004
We are in 2032. Batou is a living cyborg. His entire body is man made. He has only kept bits and pieces of his brain and the memory of a woman. In a world where the boundaries between the human and the machine have become lesser and lesser definite, the human beings have forgotten they are human. Here is the debauchery of the "ghost" of a lonely man who nevertheless tries to retain his humanity. Innocence... that’s what life is.
Innocence is established as the sequel to Ghost in the Shell released nine years ago. In 2004, for the very first time an animation film was selected for the official competition at Cannes Festival. Let’s listen to the director’s instructions: "A piece of good advise for those who discover the film: allow yourselves to be carried away by sound and image, without necessarily reading the subtitling, and keep one image within you, whatever it is, deep inside you..."
