This 4K Ultra HD release with Dolby Vision looks good, but the Dolby Vision HDR is not as spectacular as you might be expecting. It remains an influential classic that all sci-fi, anime, and animation fans must see. Ghost in the Shell is a great anime film that has stood the test of time. Production Report (Blu-ray Only) (1080p upscaled 00:27:04).Landscapes & Dreamscapes – The Art and Architecture of Ghost in the Shell (1080p 00:10:50).Accessing Section 9 – 25 Years into the Future (1080p 00:18:42).Audio commentary with animation writer and English language scriptwriter of Ghost in the Shell Mary Claypool, animation producer and writer Eric Calderon, voice of “Batou” in Ghost in the Shell franchise Richard Epcar and animation historian and critic Charles Solomon.In addition, the Blu-ray Disc includes two archival featurettes on the making of the film. There’s an excellent commentary with the English cast & crew and a couple of featurettes on the 4K disc. The ground-level mixing is still good, however, but still not on the level of the greatest classic anime sound mix currently out there, and that would be, once again, Akira. There are just flashes of discrete height effects and ambience. For example, the way the characters communicate with their implants would have been perfect for the “voice of God” effect utilizing the Atmos/height channels to make it sound like they’re inside your head, but the sound designers don’t do this, nor do they do much overhead mixing with the various helicopter flyovers or the rain sequences. The Atmos remix is definitely competent and well balanced, with good use of surround channels and the center channel effects for the various switches between types of dialogue, but height effects are extremely minimal, a complete missed opportunity for a film like this, and somewhat disappointing. Ghost in the Shell on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray comes with the original Japanese-language and English dub remixed in Dolby Atmos (the Blu-ray has Dolby TrueHD 5.1) and also includes the original Japanese stereo and English dubs in LPCM 2.0. That’s not saying that this 4K disc looks bad, in fact I think it looks very good, just not like a major step up from the included Blu-ray. Certainly, a better 4K Ultra HD remaster of an anime classic is the already available Japanese release of Akira. The 4K disc maybe has a little crisper look to the grain, but it’s a tossup that would require a lot of back and forth and very close inspection between the two. The HDR doesn’t ‘pop’ the way one would expect apart from maybe slightly brighter white levels, but the colors look about even and overall highlights are about even.
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The thing is that this 4K transfer and the Dolby Vision grading don’t really standout as too much of an upgrade over the Blu-ray version. It looks detailed, the grain structure looks very crisp and natural, and the image is clean without losing too much of that natural grain and texture. This 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray was mastered from a 4K DI with Dolby Vision HDR and framed at 1.85:1. Ghost in the Shell was remastered in 4K from its original 35mm Eastman EXR 200T 5293. Kusanagi, now one of the iconic characters not only in anime, but in sci-fi and film writ large, is a powerful female character, drawn amazingly as are all of the characters and artwork in this cutting-edge-for-its time film. The film cleverly, in the form of a mystery not dissimilar to one its major influences, Blade Runner, discusses the meaning of life, the difference, if any between organic life, AI, the existence of the “soul” and the downside of dependance on technology in the form of a crime/drama/mystery. The Puppet Master virus is capable of infiltrating the human ghost (aka consciousness) itself. She and her fellow agents, including her partner Batou, are enlisted to track down a cyber terrorist called “The Puppet Master” who is spreading a threatening computer virus through the entire network that interconnects not only all of society’s infrastructure, but humanity itself, as many if not all people now have some sort of cybernetic implants. Set in the dystopian future of 2029 Tokyo, the female cybernetic government agent Major Kusanagi Motoko is part of the Internal Bureau of Investigations’ Section 9.
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