Sayonara

– The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative bra..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
2015
Sayonara (2015)

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.

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Release Date:

21 Nov 2015

Language:

Japanese, English, French

Director:

Kôji Fukada

Writer:

Oriza Hirata (stage play), Kôji Fukada (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Irène Jacob, Jérôme Kircher, Hirofumi Arai, Mari Yamamoto

Plot:

In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. The entire population has to evacuate before being deluged by radiation poisoning. To achieve this a ticketing system has been implemented. Not prioritized is an immigrant to Japan whose closest friend to begin with in the dying country is not even alive.

Awards:

2 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.0/10