I just came across this on eBay. Natural City, futuristic Bladerunner clone from Korea. Anyone seen it?
http://www.asiandb.com/browse/movie_det ... stuff=4804
Natural City - Korean film
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So I bought it...
Okay, dvd received and viewed. It's Korean with English subtitles, and my disc has a glitch about 2/3 of the way in which garbles a few scenes.
The story is hard to follow, but here is the gist of it. A guy named R is a member of a police task force that hunts down violent cyborgs. He is in love with Ria, a dancing "doll", who only has 3 days to live (expiration date, just like Bladerunner). Dr. Giro, the renegade scientist/nutcase, has come up with a way to solve the expiration problem. The solution is to find a human that matches up with the dna (?? don't ask me. I think the 'cyborgs' are actually human hosts implanted with a chip) of the cyborg's body and upload the a.i. into the brain.
So Giro finds the match for Ria the doll. She is a young woman named Cyon - the typical wandering waif. R brings Cyon to Dr. Giro, but it turns out that Giro has actually transferred his consciousness into a combat cyborg called Cyper, and Cyon is the dna match for Giro/Cyper. It's all a double-cross for R and there's no hope for Ria.
Most of the film is violent fight sequences between the cops and the bad guy cyborgs. The borgs fight with the strength of 4 men and have super agility. They can only be stopped by shooting them in the head - where the chip is located.
Even though Ria is the main female cyborg in the film she has no really good robotic scenes. Just sits quietly for most of the film with a blank look on her face.
The most interesting character fembot-wise is Strawberry. One scene shows Dr. Giro experimenting with a droid. She is sort of a cross between the bots in the Bjork video and the nanny-bot in A.I. Unfortunately, you only get to see small bits of her as a droid, since she is half-hidden by props as she is sealed in a glass tube. Later, a human woman stands in the lab and introduces herself as Strawberry. Giro kidnapped some woman and transferred the bots a.i. into a human body. Nice body, too. Later, she is upgraded by receiving programming as a combat droid. And she kicks a lot of butt before blowing herself up.
Also, during the opening credits there are cgi scenes showing long lines of naked people. The lines advance toward a cylindrical glass tube where, one at a time, the people are disposed of. A robotic arm clenches around their head and a probe digs out the chips in their brains. As this happens, the color drains out of their bodies, and all that is left is a hollow silver shell, which is smashed to pieces.
That's all there is. Just a mish-mash review for a mish-mash film. I might make some vidcaps later.
The story is hard to follow, but here is the gist of it. A guy named R is a member of a police task force that hunts down violent cyborgs. He is in love with Ria, a dancing "doll", who only has 3 days to live (expiration date, just like Bladerunner). Dr. Giro, the renegade scientist/nutcase, has come up with a way to solve the expiration problem. The solution is to find a human that matches up with the dna (?? don't ask me. I think the 'cyborgs' are actually human hosts implanted with a chip) of the cyborg's body and upload the a.i. into the brain.
So Giro finds the match for Ria the doll. She is a young woman named Cyon - the typical wandering waif. R brings Cyon to Dr. Giro, but it turns out that Giro has actually transferred his consciousness into a combat cyborg called Cyper, and Cyon is the dna match for Giro/Cyper. It's all a double-cross for R and there's no hope for Ria.
Most of the film is violent fight sequences between the cops and the bad guy cyborgs. The borgs fight with the strength of 4 men and have super agility. They can only be stopped by shooting them in the head - where the chip is located.
Even though Ria is the main female cyborg in the film she has no really good robotic scenes. Just sits quietly for most of the film with a blank look on her face.
The most interesting character fembot-wise is Strawberry. One scene shows Dr. Giro experimenting with a droid. She is sort of a cross between the bots in the Bjork video and the nanny-bot in A.I. Unfortunately, you only get to see small bits of her as a droid, since she is half-hidden by props as she is sealed in a glass tube. Later, a human woman stands in the lab and introduces herself as Strawberry. Giro kidnapped some woman and transferred the bots a.i. into a human body. Nice body, too. Later, she is upgraded by receiving programming as a combat droid. And she kicks a lot of butt before blowing herself up.
Also, during the opening credits there are cgi scenes showing long lines of naked people. The lines advance toward a cylindrical glass tube where, one at a time, the people are disposed of. A robotic arm clenches around their head and a probe digs out the chips in their brains. As this happens, the color drains out of their bodies, and all that is left is a hollow silver shell, which is smashed to pieces.
That's all there is. Just a mish-mash review for a mish-mash film. I might make some vidcaps later.
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