Ghost in the Shell / Major Kusanagi / Mamoru Oshii

Major Motoko Kusanagi

*All images are from Geoff Clifton's private collection

-Ghost in the Shell-

(攻殻機動隊　･　Kokaku Kidoutai)

Original Manga - Masamune Shirow - 1991 - Young Magazine

Anime - 83 min - Mamoru Oshii (Director) - 1995 - Production I.G

Kenji Kawa (Music)

*Partly funded by Manga Entertainment

Video Release - 1996 - Manga Video


Birth of Major Kusanagi

Sexy, sensual,

independent, intelligent,

strong, sensitive, assertive ...

........ a born leader

........ and a woman who is part human and part machine (cyborg).

Major Motoko Kusanagi a group leader of "Section 9", symbolises much of what woman have worked to become over the past decades.

She has overcome the stereotype of the beautiful but physically helpless heroine of old.

Model of S.A.C/2nd GIG Kusanagi

Sculptured by Takahashi Tsuyoshi

Model produced by - Vice -