Andromedia

Andromedia
Andromedia
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Screenplay by	; Masa Nakamura; ;
Based on	title of the original work; by
Produced by	Takashi Hirano; Toshiaki Nakazawa; Makoto Nakanishi; Kazuya Hamana; Yasuhiro Mase;
Starring	Speed; Da Pump; ; Tsunehiko Watase; Naoto Takenaka;
Cinematography	Hideo Yamamoto
Edited by
Music by
Production; companies	TBS; Toy's Factory; ; Avex Group; Excellent Film;
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	July 11, 1998 (Japan);
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese; English

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[]

High school students Mainosuke "Mai" Hitomi and Yuu kiss for the first time but later that day Mai is hit by a truck and killed. Her scientist father Toshihiko Hitomi constructs an AI copy of her named "Ai" from a scan of her memories created before her death. Soccer, the CEO of the American tech company Digital Ware, wishes to awaken his own AI and sends an agent to shoot Toshihiko and take his software but Toshihiko sends Ai through the modem to safety before dying. Ai finds Yuu through a school computer terminal nicknamed "Icon" that has been enhanced by Satoshi Takanaka, Mai's genius half-brother with a terminal brain disease. Yuu transfers Ai to his laptop, through which she interacts with him and Mai's old friends, including Rika, who is jealous of Yuu's love for Ai. Soccer sends Satoshi and others to chase down Yuu and capture Ai.

Cast[]

Hiroko Shimabukuro as Mai Hitomi & Ai
Eriko Imai as Yôko
Takako Uehara as Rika
Hitoe Arakaki as Nao
as Yuu
as Satoshi Takanaka
Christopher Doyle as Sakkaa/Soccer
Tomorowo Taguchi as Gôda
Issa Hentona as Tooru
as Hiroyuki
as Kazuma
as Daiki
as Mai as a child
as Yuu as a child
Kazuki Kitamura as Sada
as Sakkaa's/Soccer's secretary
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 .^[1]

Reception[]

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]

Notes[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Mes 2006, p. 387.
^ Mes 2006, p. 135.

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 IMDb

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[FOOTNOTEMes2006387-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Mes 2006, p. 387.

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