Sayonara
– The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative bra..
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.
21 Nov 2015
Japanese, English, French
Kôji Fukada
Oriza Hirata (stage play), Kôji Fukada (screenplay)
Irène Jacob, Jérôme Kircher, Hirofumi Arai, Mari Yamamoto
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.
2 nominations.