Andromedia
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Director Takashi Miike Duration Initial DVD release December 28, 2004 Country Japan | 5/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi Running time 1h 49m Music director ???? Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 11, 1998 (1998-07-11) Writer Itaru Era (screenplay), Masa Nakamura (screenplay), Kozy Watanabe (novel) Cast Hiroko Shimabukuro , Eriko Imai , Takako Uehara , Hitoe Arakaki , Tomorowo Taguchi , Kazuki Kitamura Similar movies Directed by Takashi Miike, Japanese language movies, Science fiction movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andromedia (アンドロメディア) is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. featuring the Japanese musical groups Speed and Da Pump.
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Plot
Hiroko Shimabukuro plays the character of Mai Hitomi, who gives her boyfriend Yuu his first kiss and is promptly hit by a truck. She is then recreated as an AI by her father, a scientist, who had completely scanned ("digitized") her before her death. The film depicts the continuing love between Yuu and the digital copy of Mai, who can only interact across the computer terminal.
Production
Tom Mes, author of Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike described Andromedia as the "most unabashedly commercial film" Miike had made at this point in his career.
Cast
Release
Andromedia was distributed theatrically in Japan by Shochiku on July 11, 1998. The film was released on DVD and VHS in Japan by Toy's Factory and in the United States by Pathfinder Pictures.
References
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