The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
You can now watch Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Directing | Kazuchika Kise | Director |
| Writing | Masahiko Murata | Storyboard |
| Crew | Tow Ubukata | Compositors |
| Crew | Masamune Shirow | Creator |
| Directing | Masahiko Murata | Director |
| Writing | Tow Ubukata | Screenplay |
| Production | Mitsuhisa Ishikawa | Executive Producer |
| Production | Satoshi Kohno | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Hideji Kaneko | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Katsuji Morishita | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Shiro Sasaki | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Keiji Ota | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Kimikazi Ueyama | Executive Producer |
| Production | Takuya Matsushita | Executive Producer |
| Production | Shinjiro Yokoyama | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ken Okawara | Producer |
| Production | Junichiro Tsuchiya | Producer |
| Production | Yoshihiro Furusawa | Producer |
| Production | Tôru Kawaguchi | Producer |
| Production | Kengo Abe | Producer |
| Production | Mitsutoshi Arimoto | Producer |
| Production | Tomohisa Nishimura | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Kazuchika Kise | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Takayuki Yanase | Mechanical Designer |
| Art | Yusuke Takeda | Art Direction |
| Art | Takamasa Masuki | Art Direction |
| Art | Naoki Arakawa | Props |
| Art | Naoki Arakawa | Background Designer |
| Camera | Koji Tanaka | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Junichi Uematsu | Editor |
| Crew | Masahiro Murakami | Special Effects |
| Visual Effects | Eiji Inomoto | CGI Director |
| Sound | Keigo Oyamada | Main Title Theme Composer |
| Sound | Keigo Oyamada | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Yoshimoto Ishikawa | Music Producer |
| Sound | Yoshikazu Iwanami | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Nishio | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Nishio | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Nishio | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuchika Kise | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroyuki Okiura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tomohiro Shinoda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yasunori Miyazawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naoki Arakawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroki Saito | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Miyuki Honda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Abe | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Asuka Suzuki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yukiko Watabe | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Miori Tsuzaka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akira Matsui | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naho Kiyoike | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nahoko Iiyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Maki Kouno | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Chiyo Nakayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akemi Yamakaji | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takehiro Hamatsu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nobuyoshi Souzaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuko Yamamoto | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masayuki Honda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takahisa Katagiri | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroko Kasuga | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tomoko Sugidomari | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hirofumi Masuda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takashi Mukouda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ikuo Kuwana | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Itadaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Saito | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuuga Tokuno | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Moe Usami | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shosuke Ishibashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takahito Katayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Reina Igawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuhiro Miwa | Key Animation |
| Writing | Masamune Shirow | Comic Book |
