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Johansson dives deep into a tricky role, a character who is as much a sentient weapon as she is a human consciousness. And, crucially, it’s not so dumbed down that it loses the ghost of the original’s chilly techno-dread. The result may be a more conventional film, but it’s also a more accessible one.

To this end, director Rupert Sanders has dialled down the introspection, beefed up the action and tweaked the enigmatic plot with a Wolverine-style origins story that sees augmented cybernetic cop Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson, a controversial piece of casting that drew accusations of “whitewashing” a Japanese character) delving into her own memory to learn the truth about her creation.

That’s not a route this live-action Hollywood remake can afford to take. The film’s cult success came later, with the video release and slow-building word of mouth. The cerebral element and the languid pacing initially scared off the non-Japanese audience. What is the nature of identity when the brain is souped up with cyber-implants and the soul is reduced to a series of electrical impulses? (Incidentally, the question of why a cyborg would need a gigantic pair of knockers in the first place was left unanswered.) For every shot of a generously breasted naked cyborg plummeting from the top of a building, there was a scene in which characters grappled with knotty philosophical questions. But Ghost in the Shell was a challenging watch. Its influence was far-reaching – most notably on The Matrix. H ow do you improve on one of the greatest anime films ever made? The groundbreaking 1995 original Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on a manga series by Masamune Shirow, was a masterpiece.

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