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Why does this include the skyline and flag of Hong Kong... I thought Ghost in the Shell was in Japan.

• zhte415 10y ago
  The original was also in HK.
  • xiii1408 10y ago
    Oh, wow! Silly me. I had assumed the original was set in Tokyo, and I looked around to see if I can find anything about setting before posting this, but couldn't find anything.
  • iwintermute 10y ago
    It was modeled after HK, but it wasn't HK
  • jungletek 10y ago
    From the Wikipedia page: "Oshii based the setting for Ghost in the Shell on Hong Kong. Oshii commented that his first thought to find an image of the future setting was an Asian city, but finding a suitable cityscape of the future would be impossible. Oshii chose to use the real streets of Hong Kong as his model.[9] He also said that Hong Kong was the perfect subject and theme for the film with its countless signs and the cacophony of sounds.[6] The film's mecha designer Takeuchi Atsushi noted that while the film does not have a chosen setting, it is obviously based on Hong Kong because the city represented the theme of the film, the old and the new which exist in a strange relationship in an age of an information deluge. Before shooting the film, the artists drew sketches that emphasized Hong Kong's chaotic, confusing and overwhelming aspects." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)