Andromedia
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| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
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title of the original work by Hirotake Watanabe |
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| Music by | Koji Endo[1] |
| Cinematography | Hideo Yamamoto[1] |
| Edited by | Yasushi Shimamura[1] |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 110 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
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.
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.[2]
Cast
- Hiroko Shimabukuro as Mai Hitomi & Ai
- Eriko Imai as Yôko
- Takako Uehara as Rika
- Hitoe Arakaki as Nao
- Kenji Harada as Yuu
- Ryô Karato as Satoshi Takanaka
- Christopher Doyle as Sakkaa/Soccer
- Tomorowo Taguchi as Gôda
- Issa Hentona as Tooru
- Shinobu Miyara as Hiroyuki
- Yukinari Tamaki as Kazuma
- Ken Okumoto as Daiki
- Anna Ide as Mai as a child
- Akihiro Yoshikawa as Yuu as a child
- Kazuki Kitamura as Sada
- Michelle Gazepis as Sakkaa's/Soccer's secretary
- Hiromi Suzuki as Mai's mother
- Naoto Takenaka as Kurosawa
- Tsunehiko Watase as Toshihiko Hitomi/Mai's father/Ai's creator
Release
Andromedia was distributed theatrically in Japan by Shochiku on July 11, 1998.[1] The film was released on DVD and VHS in Japan by Toy's Factory and in the United States by Pathfinder Pictures.[1]
See also
Notes
References
- Mes, Tom (2006). Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike. FAB Press. ISBN 1903254418.
External links
- アンドロメデイア ａｎｄｒｏｍｅｄｉａ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
- Andromedia at the Internet Movie Database