Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain is a 2013 action and animation movie directed by Kazuchika Kise and Masahiko Murata. It stars Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku and Kenichirou Matsuda. It runs 58m and is rated R. TMDB users rate it 7.0 out of 10. Streaming in the US on Crunchyroll.

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.