Sayonara (2015)
さようなら
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.
- Date of release
- 2015-11-21
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Koji Fukada
Casting
- Bryerly Long — Tania
- Hirofumi Arai — Satoshi
- Geminoid F. — Leona
- Makiko Murata — Sano
- Nijiro Murakami
- Yuko Kibiki
- Irène Jacob
- Jérôme Kircher
- Noemie Nakai — French Android
- Yasuko Tsuji
Interesting facts
Sayonara is a 2015 Japanese film written and directed by Kōji Fukada and based on the short play of the same name by Oriza Hirata. Starring Bryerly Long and Geminoid F, the film was promoted as "the first movie to feature a Gynoid performing opposite a human actor". It premiered in October 2015 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and was scheduled for release in Japan on November 21, 2015.
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