Andromedia

4.8
19981h 49m

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

Photo of Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Mai Hitomi / AI

Photo of Ryo Karato

Ryo Karato

Satoshi Takanaka

Photo of Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle

Sakkaa / Soccer

Photo of Ito Takahiro

Ito Takahiro

Boy in the Bus

Photo of Manzo Shinra

Manzo Shinra

Bathroom Visitor

Photo of Yukio Yamanouchi

Yukio Yamanouchi

Bus Passenger

Photo of Kippei Shiina

Kippei Shiina

Chinese-speaking Man

Photo of Tsunehiko Watase

Tsunehiko Watase

Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator

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Reviews

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Walruse

4/10

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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