Batou

Kôkaku kidôtai S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D (2011)

Actors: Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Akio Ôtsuka (actor), Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (producer), Atsuko Tanaka (actress), Shigeru Watanabe (producer), Yôko Kanno (composer), Kenji Kamiyama (director), Kenji Kamiyama (writer), Masamune Shirow (writer), Yoshiki Sakurai (writer), Shotaro Suga (writer), Tomohiko Ishii (producer), Muneyuki Kii (producer), Masayuki Yoshihara (miscellaneous crew), Masaki Tachibana (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller,

Kôkaku kidôtai 2.0 (2008)

Actors: Doug Stone (actor), Tom Wyner (actor), Peter Spellos (actor), Steve Bulen (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Michael Sorich (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Tesshô Genda (actor), Steve Bulen (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Shigeru Chiba (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Tom Wyner (actor),

Genres: Action, Animation, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: The cyberpunk classic that inspired 'The Matrix', reworked for today!

Kôkaku kidôtai 2.0 (2008)

Actors: Doug Stone (actor), Tom Wyner (actor), Peter Spellos (actor), Steve Bulen (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Michael Sorich (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Tesshô Genda (actor), Steve Bulen (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Shigeru Chiba (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Tom Wyner (actor),

Genres: Action, Animation, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: The cyberpunk classic that inspired 'The Matrix', reworked for today!

Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society (2006)

Actors: Yoshiko Sakakibara (actress), Sakiko Tamagawa (actress), Kazuya Tatekabe (actor), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (actress), Osamu Saka (actor), Mona Marshall (actress), Akio Ôtsuka (actor), Crispin Freeman (actor), Tesshô Genda (actor), Dave Wittenberg (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Bob Buchholz (actor), William Knight (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Atsuko Tanaka (actress),

Plot: A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker nicknamed the "Puppet Master" is behind the entire series of events.

Keywords: 2030s, anime, based-on-comic, cyborg, japan
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi,

Kôkaku kidôtai: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual eleven (2005)

Actors: Trevor Devall (actor), David Kaye (actor), Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (producer), Osamu Saka (actor), Atsuko Tanaka (actress), Shigeru Watanabe (producer), Yôko Kanno (composer), Russell Roberts (actor), Kenji Kamiyama (director), Vincent Tong (actor), Alison Matthews (actress), Masayuki Yoshihara (miscellaneous crew), Takashi Onozuka (actor),

Plot: The year is 2030 and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the Individual Eleven. With a sadistic intent of mass destruction, will they triumph in victory or discover the gloomy pitfalls of defeat?

Genres: Animation,

Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand alone complex - The laughing man (2005)

Actors: Michael Adamthwaite (actor), Trevor Devall (actor), Brian Drummond (actor), David Kaye (actor), Osamu Saka (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Akio Ôtsuka (actor), Janyse Jaud (actress), Tabitha St. Germain (actress), Sakiko Tamagawa (actress), Cathy Weseluck (actress), Atsuko Tanaka (actress), John Payne (actor), Mark Gibbon (actor), Tôru Ohkawa (actor),

Genres: Animation,

Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand alone complex - The laughing man (2005)

Actors: Michael Adamthwaite (actor), Trevor Devall (actor), Brian Drummond (actor), David Kaye (actor), Osamu Saka (actor), Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Akio Ôtsuka (actor), Janyse Jaud (actress), Tabitha St. Germain (actress), Sakiko Tamagawa (actress), Cathy Weseluck (actress), Atsuko Tanaka (actress), John Payne (actor), Mark Gibbon (actor), Tôru Ohkawa (actor),

Genres: Animation,

Innocence (2004)

Actors: Steve Kramer (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), William Knight (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Robert Axelrod (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Hiroaki Hirata (actor), Robert Axelrod (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Crispin Freeman (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor),

Plot: Batô is a living cyborg. His whole body, even his arms and legs, are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman. In an era when the boundary between humans and machines has become infinitely vague, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is the debauchery of the lonesome ghost of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity. Innocence... Is what life is.

Keywords: android, anime, anti-terrorism, artificial-intelligence, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, battleship, bible-quote, city, computer
Genres: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Sore wa inotchi innosensu ('Innocence is Life') When machines learn to feel, who decides what is human...

Quotes:

Bateau: No matter how far a jackass travels, it won't come back a horse.

Major Motoko Kusanagi: We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice. If the dolls also had voices, they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human."

[first title cards]: In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome murders.

Togusa: How great is the sum of thy thoughts? If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.::Bateau: Psalms 139, Old Testament. The way you spout these spontaneous exotic references, I'd say your own external memory's pretty twisted.

Togusa: His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks.::Bateau: Now you're quoting Milton, but we are not Satan.

Bateau: What's up?::Togusa: Narrow, dark stairs. What's the program?::Bateau: We take turns, I'll lead.::Togusa: No, I'll lead. You're so damned big, I can't cover you! [walks up the stairs, hereby forcing the lead]

Bateau: [referring to the grenades thrown by the thug] Your little gifts exploded above my head. Even presuming they went off at their most lethal range, you think two grenades are going to off an armored cyborg? You insult me.

Lin: We got loyalty even in my line.::Bateau: There's loyalty that protects secrets and loyalty that projects the truth. You cannot serve both masters, so which loyalty is yours?

Bateau: Still with me, pal?::Togusa: [with his head between his hands, looking to the floor] All I could see... were my wife and daughter's faces.::Bateau: That wasn't your wife or daughter. It was the Grim Reaper.

Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki: I ordered you to conduct an investigation. I never said skip the paperwork and act like vigilantes. I certainly don't recall ordering you to barge into any Yakuza office. This isn't the jungle and you're not Special Forces hit men.