GHOST IN THE SHELL Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/3/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache located middle of Namsan park main trail.

Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 Japanese anime science fiction film based on manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii, animated by Production I.G, and scripted by Kazunori Itō. It stars the voices of Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ōtsuka, and Iemasa Kayumi. An updated version called Ghost in the Shell 2.0 was released in 2008 with new audio and updated 3D computer graphics in certain scenes.

[Plot]
In the distant future, the world has become interconnected by a vast electronic network that permeates every aspect of life. Much of humanity, including the protagonists, has direct access to this network through cybernetic bodies, or "shells", which possess their consciousness and can give them superhuman abilities.

Major Motoko Kusanagi, a female police officer and leader of Public Security Section 9's assault team, is assigned to capture an elusive hacker known as the "Puppet Master". Her team, Batou and Ishikawa, triangulate their activity with a garbageman. The man believes he is going through a divorce and thinks he is using a program obtained from a sympathetic man to illegally ghost-hack his wife's mind to find his daughter. Kusanagi and her team arrest both the garbageman and the man who gave him the program, but they discover that both men's memories were either erased or implanted, which means they themselves were ghost-hacked by the Puppet Master, who remains at large.

Soon after, a facility is hacked and programmed to assemble a female cybernetic body. The body escapes but is hit by a truck; Section 9 investigates and examines the body. The completely robotic body seems to have a human ghost inside - perhaps the Puppet Master himself. Officials from rival agency Section 6 visit Section 9 and explain that the body was made to lure the Puppet Master's ghost and trap it inside. Kusanagi espies the conversation and decides to "dive in" the body and face the Puppet Master's ghost. Before she succeeds, the ghost activates the body. Section 6 then storms Section 9 and takes the body away.

The information from the body leads Section 9 to uncover the mysterious Project 2501. Section 6 claims the project was created to catch the elusive hacker, but the project was initiated before his appearance. Section 9 speculates that the project itself created the Puppet Master, who then escaped, and Section 6 now wants him back. Daisuke Aramaki, the head of Section 9, suspects that the project and the Puppet Master were tools of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The escape might lead to revealing secrets that could embarrass both Section 6 and the Ministry.

The getaway car carrying the Puppet Master meets up with another, and they split off. Batou stops the original car, which turns out to be a decoy. Kusanagi follows the second car to an abandoned building, where she fights with a spider tank that was deployed to stop her. Batou arrives in time to save Kusanagi and destroys the tank. With Batou on guard, Kusanagi now faces another cybernetic body. The Puppet Master now reveals himself and says that, in Project 2501, Section 6 created him to illegally hack ghosts for its own interests. The Puppet Master became sentient but unable to reproduce or die. He was looking for Kusanagi to merge with her and create a new being. As a result, he would be able to die and Kusanagi would live on with his ghost. Batou tries to disconnect the drive, but he is hacked and stopped by the Puppet Master.

Helicopters from Section 6 approach the building with orders to destroy everyone inside to cover up Project 2501. The Puppet Master blocks their targeting systems. When he starts merging with Kusanagi, snipers blow their heads off, along with Batou's arm.

Kusanagi wakes up in a child-sized cyborg body in Batou's safe house. Batou says her original body was destroyed in the fight. He recovered her head intact and attached it to the new body. Nakamura is questioned and the Foreign Minister resigns as an aftermath. As she is to leave, Kusanagi acknowledges she is now neither herself nor the Puppet Master, but a combination of both. Batou says he will always be there for her. She exits the house and gazes out over the city, pondering possibilities of the future.

[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

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