Matt Schley
September 4, 2024 
It was revealed last month that voice actor Atsuko Tanaka, best known for playing Major Motoko Kusanagi in the Ghost in the Shell franchise, had died at the age of 61.
Now White Cine Quinto, a movie theater in Shibuya, Tokyo, is paying tribute to Tanaka with a week of screenings of the original 1995 Ghost in the Shell.
White Cine Quinto, which is located in the Parco shopping complex, will screen the film starting September 6 for one week. The theater will screen the 4K remaster from 2021.
That film, directed by Mamoru Oshii, marked Tanaka’s first appearance as Kusanagi, the cyborg leader of Section 9. Tanaka would go on to play the character in many subsequent films, TV series and other adaptations, including in the Japanese dub of the 2017 live-action film. She most recently played the Major in the series SAC 2045.
Here’s how Lionsgate describes the film:
Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can “ghost hack” (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, “born in sea of information,” and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.
Source: Livedoor
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