The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze...
Released: Jan 27, 2006
Runtime: 161 minutes
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction
Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Osamu Saka, Koichi Yamadera, Rikiya Koyama, Takashi Onozuka, Taro Yamaguchi
Crew: Yutaka Oomatsu (Production Manager), Kenji Kamiyama (Director), Takayuki Goto (Character Designer), Tetsuya Nishio (Character Designer), Kenichi Konishi (Animation Director), Koichi Maruyama (Animation Director)