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.
Unfortunately the movie Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | Shinjiro Yokoyama | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kimikazi Ueyama | Executive Producer |
| Production | Takuya Matsushita | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ken Okawara | Producer |
| Production | Katsuji Morishita | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Junichiro Tsuchiya | Producer |
| Production | Satoshi Kohno | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Keiji Ota | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Mitsutoshi Arimoto | Producer |
| Production | Shiro Sasaki | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Mitsuhisa Ishikawa | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hideji Kaneko | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Yoshihiro Furusawa | Producer |
| Production | Tôru Kawaguchi | Producer |
| Production | Kengo Abe | Producer |
| Production | Tomohisa Nishimura | Producer |
| Sound | Keigo Oyamada | Main Title Theme Composer |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Nishio | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Eiji Inomoto | CGI Director |
| Art | Takamasa Masuki | Art Direction |
| Camera | Koji Tanaka | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Yoshimoto Ishikawa | Music Producer |
| Visual Effects | Takayuki Yanase | Mechanical Designer |
| Visual Effects | Kazuchika Kise | Character Designer |
| Art | Naoki Arakawa | Props |
| Art | Yusuke Takeda | Art Direction |
| Sound | Keigo Oyamada | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Junichi Uematsu | Editor |
| Art | Naoki Arakawa | Background Designer |
| Crew | Masahiro Murakami | Special Effects |
| Sound | Yoshikazu Iwanami | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Nishio | Animation Director |
| Directing | Kazuchika Kise | Director |
| Directing | Masahiko Murata | Director |
| Writing | Masahiko Murata | Storyboard |
| Crew | Masamune Shirow | Creator |
| Crew | Tow Ubukata | Compositors |
| Writing | Masamune Shirow | Comic Book |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Nishio | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Miori Tsuzaka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masayuki Honda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takahisa Katagiri | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroko Kasuga | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Saito | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tomohiro Shinoda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroki Saito | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Abe | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akira Matsui | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuchika Kise | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiroyuki Okiura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Miyuki Honda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tomoko Sugidomari | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yasunori Miyazawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naoki Arakawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akemi Yamakaji | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naho Kiyoike | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nobuyoshi Souzaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Nahoko Iiyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takehiro Hamatsu | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takashi Mukouda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Chiyo Nakayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shosuke Ishibashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Asuka Suzuki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yukiko Watabe | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Itadaki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Maki Kouno | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuko Yamamoto | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hirofumi Masuda | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Moe Usami | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Reina Igawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuhiro Miwa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takahito Katayama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Yuuga Tokuno | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ikuo Kuwana | Key Animation |
| Writing | Tow Ubukata | Screenplay |
