Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society | Films

Synopsis

In the year 2034, two years after the Refugee Uprising Incident, the newly reinforced Public Security Section 9 and its 20 new recruits face a new case. T
hey are sent to deal with a situation at the airport, where a man has taken hostages and barricaded himself in.
The incident is tied to a series of suicide cases involving 13 terrorists who all share the same tattoo.
The perpetrator is eventually cornered by Public Security Section 9, but he simply declares, "The Puppeteer is coming," before taking his own life.
Soon after, a number of difficult cases all occur simultaneously. Behind them all lurks the presence of a wizard-class hacker known as the Puppeteer.
Faced with one difficult case after another, how will the members of the new Section 9 deal with them all?
What is the real identity of the "Puppeteer" hiding behind these events? And what does "Solid State Society" signify?

Director

Kenji Kamiyama

Born on March 20, 1966, in Saitama, Japan.
After working on such films as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Sequence Director / 2000) and Blood: The Last Vampire (Screenplay / 2000), Kamiyama made his directorial debut with MiniPato (2002). He later served as director and series writer on the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series (2002–2005).
Beginning in 2017, he also began directing full 3DCG animation, working on titles including ULTRAMAN (2019) and Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020).
In 2024, he worked with Hollywood on The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which combined hand-drawn animation with 3D CGI and received a worldwide theatrical release. In August 2026, Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi, a series based on The Ninth Jedi, the episode he created for the 2021 anthology series Star Wars: Visions on Disney+, began streaming worldwide, with Kamiyama serving as story creator and supervising director.
Selected works include the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Eden of the East, and Napping Princess.

Staff: Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Link: https://theghostintheshell.jp/