May
29
2008
Cyborg Girl (third installment of My Sassy Girl series)
Posted by luna6 3 Comments
Movie: Cyborg Girl / My Girlfriend Is a Cyborg
Release Date: May 31, 2008
Country: Japan
Director: Jae-young Kwak
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide
Runtime: 120 Min
Users Rating: 8.71 
(21 votes)
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Jae-young Kwak’s third installment from his “My Sassy Girl” series is set to open in Japan on May 31st. The first installment (”My Sassy Girl”) was influential enough to bring Korean movies to a wider international audience, make main actors Gianna Jun & Tae-hyun Cha Pan-Asian stars, as well as spawn a U.S. remake and countless copy cat movies. The second installment, “Windstruck,” was nearly as successful, appealing especially to the Japanese audience. After Jae-young Kwak wrote the screenplay for his final installment, “Cyborg Girl,” he sat on the script for a few years waiting for the right time to bring it to the big screen. That right time came when Japanese company Amuse offered to finance and produce the movie. After a few re-writes, enlistment of A-list Japanese actors Haruka Ayase and Keiseke Koide, Cyborg Girl was brought to life.
In “Cyborg Girl,” Keisuke Koide plays Jiro, a lonely 20 year old student celebrating his birthday all by himself. He goes to a department store to buy himself a gift when he sees the girl. The girl appears in tattered clothes, tries on a new dress, then walks out without paying for the dress. Afterwards, the guy has a meal at a restaurant when the girl appears again. She tells him, “Today’s my birthday too.” They spend the rest of the day together, making Jiro’s 20th birthday his best ever. After that day the girl completely vanishes.
One year later, on Jiro’s 21st birthday, he celebrates his 21st birthday all alone again. That is until the girl appears again. Her appearance looks the same but her mood seems different. When they have a meal in a restaurant, gun fire suddenly erupts, with the girl saving the guy’s life. Jiro then learns something more shocking, the girl that saved his life is actually a cyborg, sent by his future self to save his life in the present day. The couple then starts living together.
Cyborg Girl follows him wherever he goes. It doesn’t take long for the guy to fall in love with Cyborg Girl, but the girl, capable of a limited range of emotions, doesn’t understand the concept of love. The guy makes the painful decision to leave her because of this. Once again living a lonely life, an earthquake occurs. Cyborg Girl appears again to save his life. She then starts to have feelings like a human being ….
Cast:
Haruka Ayase
Keisuke Koide
Kei Tanaka
Suzunosuke
Kenta Kiritani
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Ayumu Saito
Kenichi Endo
Fumiyo Kohinata
Hiromasa Taguchi
Naoto Takenaka
Masato Ibu
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Comments
3 Comments so far
just the way the plot progressed you know a good mind came up with it
the way you think you understand but then another twist enters
the brilliance of in mid res that is the director’s trademark
i loved it
i enjoyed this review, and i love your site too btw
I loved this movie, its has a sweet storyline and is very cute. The characters are so wonderfully played by the actors that you fall in love with them the moment you watch the movie. Its a great find, and I would recommend it very much!
I just watched the all-region DVD I bought at HKFLIX.com. Its a good movie. Not as good as My Sassy Girl, but I suppose everyone is going to try to compare it to that movie. The time line regarding the time travel elements is a bit screwy, but there’s not much you can do about that.