Kōkaku kidōtai

Year: 1995

Aka: Ghost in the Shell

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Cast: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Iemasa Kayumi, Koichi Yamadera

IMDb: tt0113568

Theme / prize: thema anime

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.