Andromedia
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.
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Andromedia 1998 Trailer
Cast

Hiroko Shimabukuro
Mai Hitomi / AI

Eriko Imai
Yoko

Takako Uehara
Rika

Ryo Karato
Satoshi Takanaka

Christopher Doyle
Sakkaa / Soccer

Tomorowo Taguchi
Goda

Issa Hentona
Tooru

Kazuki Kitamura
Sada

Ito Takahiro
Boy in the Bus

Naoto Takenaka
Kurosawa

Manzo Shinra
Bathroom Visitor

Yukio Yamanouchi
Bus Passenger

Kippei Shiina
Chinese-speaking Man

Tsunehiko Watase
Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator
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Reviews
Walruse
While extremely dated and takes place in then contemporary Japan of 1998, it should not be missed by anyone into cyberpunk. It is a commercial movie with very few artistic ambitions, but a well made example of the endless possibilities of the revolutionary internet back in the nineties, as perceived by the mainstream and media.
The movie is a teenage adventure/action movie and relationship drama and throws in a little bit of everything cyber. There are the nineties cyberpunk hackerspace with tubing and snaking cables, there is an evil technological corporation (Digital Ware Japan, co. inc.), there are baddies in black suits, there is a magically, eh, electronically remote controlled Volkswagen beetle by a gamepad, there are glass tetris blocks in cyberspace... And even a boy band number dancing on a stage with flaming ventilation pipes and circuit boards. Note that all of these are in the passing and the main plot revolves around the girl who has been reanimated (heh) into a digital clone by her father after her untimely death, exiled to the laptop of her crush.
While technically nonsensical and generally absolutely ridiculous, it does still have good pacing and is a good ride of surfing on the wave of cyber cheese.
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