Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man | 
| Actor: Ghost In The Shell
Studio: Manga Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 15400
Format: Animated, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 25172
UPC: 669198251726
EAN: 0669198251726
ASIN: B000UR9TM8
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Condition: !!!PLEASE READ!!! DISC IN GOOD CONDITION! RENTAL COPY! HAS RENTAL STICKERS! SOME HAVE MARKS, WEAR AND TEAR IN BOXES AND CASE!
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Amazon.com
The OAV Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex--The Laughing Man (2005) consists of footage from the 26-episode Stand Alone Complex TV series (2002), recut to tell the story of a police battle with an ueber-hacker. Writer-director Kenji Kamiyama oversaw the re-editing and rewrote some of the dialogue for greater clarity. The main arc of the first season of SAC, The Laughing Man is complicated tale of cyber-espionage and government corruption. Major Kusanagi, Batou, Chief Aramaki, and the other officers of Public Security Section 9 must untangle an intricate web of deception to discover a hidden scandal involving a bogus cure for the debilitating disease of "cyberbrain sclerosis." In the original series, this story was interwoven with brief adventures involving the black-market sale of human organs, the growing consciousness of the Tachikoma robots, and Chief Aramaki's colorful past. The Laughing Man, a title borrowed from J.D. Salinger, is interesting enough to stand on its own, but at two hours and forty minutes, it feels very long. Bandai has re-recorded the dialogue with a new cast, which sounds jarring to audiences familiar with the series. The Laughing Man may appeal to viewers who didn't see SAC in its initial release: otaku who know the original may find the reworking feels like a gimmick. (Rated 13 and older: violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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 A great story with just one flaw for hard core SAC fans October 8, 2007
M. Sewell
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you think you might be interested in Ghost in the Shell SAC this would be a great introduction to the series beyond the film, however, I could not give it a 5 star rating because the english voice cast is not the established voices from the SAC series. I would rather recomend the 26 episode box set or individual disks from the SAC series first because while the Laughing Man story arc is great, the additional stand alone stories from the 26 episode series are equally entertaining. In summary I would not recomend this disk to established fans of the series but, I would to anyone who is interested to a great story outside of the movie and has a mild curiosity about Ghost in the Shell SAC.
 J.D. Salinger is big in Japan September 9, 2008
H. Jonathan Lawson (St. Louis, MO USA)
"Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" is one of the greatest anime series of all time. Like the two impossibly cool Mamoru Oshii movies that preceded it (the first of which was the main inspiration for "The Matrix" trilogy), it's based on the fantastic manga series written and drawn by Masamune Shirow. This movie, "The Laughing Man", is actually a distillation of the first season of the show, condensing the main story arc into a coherent feature-length movie.
Every facet of this production is first-class. It's beautiful, exciting and very thought-provoking. There's political drama, gun-fights, fist-fights, sexy cyborgs, awesome music by Yoko Kanno, and my favorite book "The Catcher in the Rye" features prominently in it as well.
Watch this movie and I guarantee you'll want to buy the whole season. While you're at it check out the second season, "GITS: SAC 2nd Gig", which is actually even better, and was also condensed into an excellent movie called "The Individual Eleven".
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