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Another anime, and this one also falling squarely into the cyberpunk genre. And what else can you call it, but another masterpiece? Like Akira before it, Ghost shows audience a fully and beautifully realized future world so immaculately detailed and lovingly rendered it rises to the peak of its medium. There's a constant haze of over-bright fluorescence and ghostly ambiance, every single shot pulses with this white glow, and it creates a startlingly beautiful sense of reality.

Though only 82 minutes long, the world-building on display is incredibly dense but never feels overwrought or overwhelming. All of this built around a tightly-wound narrative with a slow, steady build of tension and mood leading to a memorable climax and a hauntingly ambiguous conclusion.

On top of that, the film is jam-packed with more philosophical ideas and quandaries than most live-action films twice it's length. Top that with one of the most memorable and iconic anime protagonists of all time in Major Motoko Kusanagi, and you have both a great animated film and a great science fiction story. The 2017 remake has nothing on this.