Based on the comic by the Shirow Masamunes, this futuristic police thriller animation directed by Kamiyama Kenji is a philosophical and entertaining master piece. The new version is converted into 3D and has new opening scene with enhanced CG. A.D. 2034. Even poor people can have cyborg implants in their brains, thus hacking is a great threat to the society of intensive network. Section 9 was formed as a counter terrorism task force. Since two years ago when Major Kusanagi resigned, Section 9 has considerably increased its appointed personnel. They face a series of complex incidents to find that the incidents are planned by a genius hacker who call himself Puppet Master. Batou independently follows the case to encounter the missing Kusanagi who warns him to stay away from "Solid State Society." Batou begins to doubt if Kusanagi is the Puppet Master. (PARK Sungho)