Synopsis
攻殻機動隊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. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
The 2012–2014 Japan Window
530 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border 1: Ghost Pain sits at position #199.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border 1: Ghost Pain. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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★ 7.9 · Japan
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★ 6.1 · China
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The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border 1: Ghost Pain premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,744 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (62nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.3 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #741 of 1,714 (top 43%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Bandai Visual, TOHO, Production I.G, Kodansha |
| Runtime | 58m |
| Release Date | June 22, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt2636124 |