The Crooked and the Straight

In the episode "Cash Eye" from the second season of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, there's a sequence that I think is a clear homage to Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake of "Ocean's Eleven." The scenes may be in a different order in "Cash Eye," but I think the similarities are too numerous to be coincidental--the composition of the shots, and in many cases, even the mise en scene.

Here's a comparison between the two.