During a Twitter discussion on the budget of Ghost in the Shell between Japanese university professor Renato Rivera Rusca and translator ehoba, producer of the original film, producer Shigeru Watanabe jumped to confirm that the anime film had a budget of 330 million yen (around US$3 million) in 1995.
Watanabe also confirmed that Patlabor 2: The Movie’s production budget (not including advertising and such) was 220 million yen, less than Ghost in the Shell.
Luckily, a producer on the film went to Twitter to confirm the budget of the seminal film.