Customer Ratings & Reviews

This js a piece of physical art tbat rivals tbe digital art that's included.

A classic must own for UHD Bluray. Uncompressed hand drawn analog goodness~

Much rather have this (the original). Plus the steelbook case looks amazing

If you've never seen this movie, you really need to right now. It can get a bit preach and philosophical at times, but it's had such a huge impact on films that have come out since that it will amaze you.

My first copy of this seminal film was on a dinged up VHS that I literally played to death. I had never see anything like it (only finding Akira after first viewing GITS) - the subtle dusting of CGI that vaulted Project I.G.’s fluid animation to something hyper-real, the gorgeous backgrounds, colorful cast, a “lived-in” near future that seemed like it could be on our very real horizon, the contemplative score and the film’s willingness to linger and let us imagine, dream and truly wonder just what being human means. Fast forward 25 years and GITS’s impact on pop-culture is indelible, inspiring animated and live-action films, video games all things cool. Though it didn’t invent it, when I think “cyberpunk,” I think Ghost in the Shell. 25 years have also seen various transfers of the film, from VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray and now UHD - through all that innovation, GITS both evolves and retains its elegance. With the UHD transfer, GITS has never looked better, it’s swelling soundtrack, fully uncompressed, is one of its standouts. Colors pop, some of the more kinetic scenes seem almost 3D, jumping off the screen. The steel book packaging, if you are lucky enough to find one without the swelling aftermarket price tag is gorgeous - one of the Best Buy has offered. TL;DR - Even if you already own a copy of this amazing film, or if you are like me and feel compelled to pick up every iteration of GITS, this is a must buy. And if this is your first “jack-in” to this groundbreaking opus, then I envy you. Enjoy.

Classic anime that still holds up after all these years.

Very nice solid cover, cool design and durable. Love it.

Perfect film as advertised 4K quality amazing movie format

Great sound and picture. Noticeable step up from standard blu ray

4K transfer is great! If you're a fan of the movie this is a must have.

I tend to shy away from designs that deviate too much from a film's original promo art, but there are so many strengths to be had in this SteelBook release that warrants a purchase. The slipcover (another addition that I usually find unnecessary with SteelBooks) is a vividly colored image of the Major's face printed on translucent materials in which you can see a peek of the SteelBook's cover. Removing the slipcover fully reveals the Major's face in construction, equally lush with color and spanning throughout the front/spine/back cover of the SteelBook. The interior art is a bit simplified in comparison, showing a new image from the film's climax. The 4K & Blu-ray discs themselves are no afterthought; both designed to resemble circuit boards with a finely embossed finish. The contents themselves are what really won me over. Within are a generous amount of special features curiously absent from Manga/Anchor Bay's BD SteelBook and while they're both in the same aspect ratio, the aforementioned doesn't quite fill the entire screen. This Lionsgate release gives it an IMAX-like ratio and while I was only able to watch the Blu-ray disc for now, the remastered image looks beautiful as ever. All in all, this is when package design equates as a work of art and truly makes the most of its medium. While I still love that Manga/Anchor Bay's SteelBook captures its original 1995 spirit, this new shell is definitely worth double-dipping for.

Amazing movie and an amazing steelbook presentation.

Excellent movie, and the 4K UHD quality is supreme. Worth the purchase! There is a newer steelcase version though, so I would go with version.

This was an amazing movie I mean awesome you cannot be disappointed in this

This is the original, OG cyberpunk movie. I love that it's more than just action. What other film can be visually appealing, entertaining, and delve into the idea of what makes one human/alive?

Gorgeous steelbook edition of a classic anime. I am glad this exists.

Gorgeous steelbook at a great price. Rare to see anime in 4k with HDR.

Still to date one of the best amine ever made. Right there with Akira and Ninja Scroll.

Great movie and the steelbook is nice, would recommend for classic anime lovers

So much has been said about this movie already, so I will only share some of my observations about what I got from playing it on my home system. As I don't have a 4K TV yet, I couldn't watch that disc, but the standard Blu-ray sufficed. For my first session I perused the Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track, and it has somewhat more definition of clarity than the original stereo track, although some of the dialogue could have been more aggressively mixed to keep it from being buried. The English subtitles were largely a direct port of the script used with older editions of the movie (with the exception of a line from Batou getting changed for no real reason, at one point). The picture overall was beautiful, except for some of the brighter computer screen images which looked a little oversaturated at times, particularly with complex graphics. The only possible disappointment was the use of The Passengers' song "One Minute Warning" in the end credits, which was used for the original American release of the movie back in 1996; because the original Japanese version of the movie is featured on the disc, they could have stuck with the original score by Kenji Kawai, but ended up not doing so. Apart from that, however, the movie holds up as well as it always has, as a true classic, and I would not hesitate to recommend getting it (again) despite any perceivable discrepancies.