Hi before I start, I appologize for my lack of contibutions to the manip gallery lately. I am fighting a pretty significant wrist and hand injury and I sure appreciate all great new work that has been pooring in. I came across a couple of Korean films the other day: "Natural city" and "Hidden Heroes" I was curios if anybody's seen them and can tell me me if they're worth buying.
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Korean ASFR flics
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Natural City =spoiler alert!=
I watched a cinematic release of "Natural City", so I guess that qualifies me
Natural city is a somewhat bizzare mix between Blade Runner and 48 Hours, where much work is now done by human clones with artificial intelligence built into their brains, and a limited 3-year lifespan. It revolves between three things mainly: the relationship between two buddy cops: Agent A (a veteran SWAT team captain) and Agent R (a officer who's not above stealing AI implants from his own colleagues while they lie dying) (who comes up with these names, seriously!?
), the love R has for Ria, as well as a plot by a mad scientist to royally screw up Natural City and obtain immortality of sorts.
R & A work in a sort of SWAT team that goes after rogue cyborgs. Despite the military chain of command that puts R under Cyon's command, the fact that R and Aare buddies means that R often misbehaves in ways that would normally earn serious military disciplinary action and gets away often with little more than a scowl from A.
The film starts by interspersing shots of a sort of industrial plant with the film's opening credits. Gradually, it becomes painfully obvious that the plant is a sort of biomass recycling plant when a woman is frozen, her head clamped in place, and shattered with a blunt tool, leaving her AI implant in place.
We eventually see R with his girlfriend, a dancer cyborg named Ria, in a simulated landscape that is actually a bench in a very busy privacy dome in an airport, the two being very much in love.
R is called away quickly into action with his team, working through a industrial complex of some sort where several rogue military cyborgs are suspected to be in place.
In the space of less than ten minutes, the cyborgs decimate practically the entire squad except for R & A using (literally) limb-pulverizing kicks of all sorts, we see R stealing AI implants for sale on the black market, ripping them right out of his colleagues, and R comes out of a Mexican showdown with the leader of the cyborgs, Cyper, nursing little more than a injured palm and cold stares from A, and an apparently dead Cyper.
Apparently, A has long been suspecting R of illegally ripping AI Implants for sale in previous engagements between the team and other rogue cyborgs. As R had deserted his watch post to collect the implants for his own personal profit, A uses this opportunity to suspend R from duties. R is not happy, and makes it very known to A using curses.
We then see R in a sort of strip club where all the women on stage are cyborgs. This is where he first met his girlfriend and fell in love with her. When Ria stumbles on the stage, he gets anxious, and the reason soon becomes clear: she is close to expiring, just three days in fact, and gradually breaking down in very obvious ways. He offers to sneak some paperwork for something the owner of the club desires in order to take her home.
R is desperate for a way to prolong Ria's life, and turns to a very elderly and brilliant mad cyborg expert named Dr Giro, who claims to have discovered a way to transplant memories from cyborgs to human beings. The catch is that the human must possess a certain set of genes, and she has just such a person located already: a prostitute named Cyon.
Cyon is the daughter of the man who loved a cyborg and made a dying wish to be buried together with the AI implant of his cyborg. While Cyon acquiesces to the wish, she is still skeptical about how a human could love a cyborg.
R quickly tries to put some funds together to buy Cyon's services "permanently" to house Ria's mind, selling several implants and corpses, including cypher's, to a contact he has known for a long time.
While R tries to buy over, and then woo over Cyon for her body (in a different sense), A has put surveilance on R and discovered Dr Giro's labs. Dr Giro is arrested, and looks rather worn when it happens.
Cyper suddenly revives despite having been shot in the head and proceeds to kill R's contact and escapes into the middle of Natural City.
A senses that something is wrong about Dr Giro. As R drives over to the prison to spring Dr Giro so that she can transfer Ria's mind to Cyon, A's colleages suddenly discover that Cyper, Dr Giro and Cyon share the exact same set of DNA required for the cyborg-to-human transfer... and that Dr Giro is technically long dead. A quickly rushes over to the prison.
As R walks out with Dr Giro, we see that Dr Giro looks rather corpse-like for some reason. A and a squad march up to them and A shoots Dr Giro in the head, revealing that she is a cyborg who has lived very long past her expiry date. Apparently, Dr Giro had transferred his mind during experiments with cyborg brains, and wanted to do another transfer to a fresh body, preferably one that wasn't cyborg. He also copied his mind to Cyper, hence Cyper's sudden decision to go renegade.
A is not impressed with R's actions, and finally snaps, ordering him suspended off duty and awaiting a trial later.
Cyper kidnaps Cyon and takes over a facility housing military cyborgs so that he can copy his/Dr Giro's brain patterns onto Cyon's brain, as well as start an all-out massacre. The facility cannot be taken out without incapcitating the city, so R & A are quickly ordered to join in an assault on the facility. R disobeys A and takes Ria to the airport to buy a flight out of Natural City.
As in the beginning, the engagement is equally one-sided, with cyborgs rushing and killing SWAT members by the dozens. Somewhere at this point, R suddenly decides (I have no idea why) to abandon Ria in a privacy dome, and promises her that he'll come back for her.
With that, R quickly flies to the facility and comes in just in time to save A from being pwned by several cyborgs in his last stand against them.
They rush over to rescue Ria, but are confronted by Cyper, who practically makes mincemeat out of them. A manages to pin a timebomb of sorts onto Cyper before being ground down. Before Cyper realises what's happening, he is blown to smithereens. Cyon tries to get R out of the lab, but R insists on staying as the blast doors shut for the last time, to have a good laugh together with Agent A, friends forever to the end. He also tells Cyon to go see to Ria at the airport.
Ria somehow realises that R is no longer alive and proceeds to rip her AI implant out, committing suicide in the process. By the time Cyon gets there, Ria is merely a corpse. She eventually does for R and Cyon the same thing she did at the beginning of the film, burying R's ashes and Ria's implant together, now realising that it is possible for a human to love a cyborg, no matter how silly it sounded to her first.
Natural City was a blockbuster and a breath of fresh air when first released in Korea in 2003. The movie departs from the usual Korean fare at most film festivals and Asian cinemas in that it uses a lot more special effects, and does film edits normally associated more with American action movies rather than Korean movies. In fact, a main complaint is that the film jumps back and forth too much. Also, the film fails to explore exactly why R and Ria fell in love, preferring to just leave it at "it just happened".
ASFR wise, it's not really ASFR. True, there are lots of cyborgs, but these are mostly human clones with computers in the back of their heads. There is also a lack of open panels or anything else ASFR-related.
In short, a good movie, but Natural City is better watched as a action-romantic movie, the sort of thing to watch if you and the fiance(e) are disagreeing about what movie to watch.
Natural city is a somewhat bizzare mix between Blade Runner and 48 Hours, where much work is now done by human clones with artificial intelligence built into their brains, and a limited 3-year lifespan. It revolves between three things mainly: the relationship between two buddy cops: Agent A (a veteran SWAT team captain) and Agent R (a officer who's not above stealing AI implants from his own colleagues while they lie dying) (who comes up with these names, seriously!?
), the love R has for Ria, as well as a plot by a mad scientist to royally screw up Natural City and obtain immortality of sorts.R & A work in a sort of SWAT team that goes after rogue cyborgs. Despite the military chain of command that puts R under Cyon's command, the fact that R and Aare buddies means that R often misbehaves in ways that would normally earn serious military disciplinary action and gets away often with little more than a scowl from A.
The film starts by interspersing shots of a sort of industrial plant with the film's opening credits. Gradually, it becomes painfully obvious that the plant is a sort of biomass recycling plant when a woman is frozen, her head clamped in place, and shattered with a blunt tool, leaving her AI implant in place.
We eventually see R with his girlfriend, a dancer cyborg named Ria, in a simulated landscape that is actually a bench in a very busy privacy dome in an airport, the two being very much in love.
R is called away quickly into action with his team, working through a industrial complex of some sort where several rogue military cyborgs are suspected to be in place.
In the space of less than ten minutes, the cyborgs decimate practically the entire squad except for R & A using (literally) limb-pulverizing kicks of all sorts, we see R stealing AI implants for sale on the black market, ripping them right out of his colleagues, and R comes out of a Mexican showdown with the leader of the cyborgs, Cyper, nursing little more than a injured palm and cold stares from A, and an apparently dead Cyper.
Apparently, A has long been suspecting R of illegally ripping AI Implants for sale in previous engagements between the team and other rogue cyborgs. As R had deserted his watch post to collect the implants for his own personal profit, A uses this opportunity to suspend R from duties. R is not happy, and makes it very known to A using curses.
We then see R in a sort of strip club where all the women on stage are cyborgs. This is where he first met his girlfriend and fell in love with her. When Ria stumbles on the stage, he gets anxious, and the reason soon becomes clear: she is close to expiring, just three days in fact, and gradually breaking down in very obvious ways. He offers to sneak some paperwork for something the owner of the club desires in order to take her home.
R is desperate for a way to prolong Ria's life, and turns to a very elderly and brilliant mad cyborg expert named Dr Giro, who claims to have discovered a way to transplant memories from cyborgs to human beings. The catch is that the human must possess a certain set of genes, and she has just such a person located already: a prostitute named Cyon.
Cyon is the daughter of the man who loved a cyborg and made a dying wish to be buried together with the AI implant of his cyborg. While Cyon acquiesces to the wish, she is still skeptical about how a human could love a cyborg.
R quickly tries to put some funds together to buy Cyon's services "permanently" to house Ria's mind, selling several implants and corpses, including cypher's, to a contact he has known for a long time.
While R tries to buy over, and then woo over Cyon for her body (in a different sense), A has put surveilance on R and discovered Dr Giro's labs. Dr Giro is arrested, and looks rather worn when it happens.
Cyper suddenly revives despite having been shot in the head and proceeds to kill R's contact and escapes into the middle of Natural City.
A senses that something is wrong about Dr Giro. As R drives over to the prison to spring Dr Giro so that she can transfer Ria's mind to Cyon, A's colleages suddenly discover that Cyper, Dr Giro and Cyon share the exact same set of DNA required for the cyborg-to-human transfer... and that Dr Giro is technically long dead. A quickly rushes over to the prison.
As R walks out with Dr Giro, we see that Dr Giro looks rather corpse-like for some reason. A and a squad march up to them and A shoots Dr Giro in the head, revealing that she is a cyborg who has lived very long past her expiry date. Apparently, Dr Giro had transferred his mind during experiments with cyborg brains, and wanted to do another transfer to a fresh body, preferably one that wasn't cyborg. He also copied his mind to Cyper, hence Cyper's sudden decision to go renegade.
A is not impressed with R's actions, and finally snaps, ordering him suspended off duty and awaiting a trial later.
Cyper kidnaps Cyon and takes over a facility housing military cyborgs so that he can copy his/Dr Giro's brain patterns onto Cyon's brain, as well as start an all-out massacre. The facility cannot be taken out without incapcitating the city, so R & A are quickly ordered to join in an assault on the facility. R disobeys A and takes Ria to the airport to buy a flight out of Natural City.
As in the beginning, the engagement is equally one-sided, with cyborgs rushing and killing SWAT members by the dozens. Somewhere at this point, R suddenly decides (I have no idea why) to abandon Ria in a privacy dome, and promises her that he'll come back for her.
With that, R quickly flies to the facility and comes in just in time to save A from being pwned by several cyborgs in his last stand against them.
They rush over to rescue Ria, but are confronted by Cyper, who practically makes mincemeat out of them. A manages to pin a timebomb of sorts onto Cyper before being ground down. Before Cyper realises what's happening, he is blown to smithereens. Cyon tries to get R out of the lab, but R insists on staying as the blast doors shut for the last time, to have a good laugh together with Agent A, friends forever to the end. He also tells Cyon to go see to Ria at the airport.
Ria somehow realises that R is no longer alive and proceeds to rip her AI implant out, committing suicide in the process. By the time Cyon gets there, Ria is merely a corpse. She eventually does for R and Cyon the same thing she did at the beginning of the film, burying R's ashes and Ria's implant together, now realising that it is possible for a human to love a cyborg, no matter how silly it sounded to her first.
Natural City was a blockbuster and a breath of fresh air when first released in Korea in 2003. The movie departs from the usual Korean fare at most film festivals and Asian cinemas in that it uses a lot more special effects, and does film edits normally associated more with American action movies rather than Korean movies. In fact, a main complaint is that the film jumps back and forth too much. Also, the film fails to explore exactly why R and Ria fell in love, preferring to just leave it at "it just happened".
ASFR wise, it's not really ASFR. True, there are lots of cyborgs, but these are mostly human clones with computers in the back of their heads. There is also a lack of open panels or anything else ASFR-related.
In short, a good movie, but Natural City is better watched as a action-romantic movie, the sort of thing to watch if you and the fiance(e) are disagreeing about what movie to watch.
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While on the subject of Korean ASFR...
While on the subject of Korean ASFR. Anyone see Teenage hooker became killing machine, I forget the exact title and probably will get it later,but I'd like a review of this if anyone has seen it. 
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As to the Korean Teenage Hooker Becomes Killing Machine (or whatever the translation is) I rented it at the video store here in Japan. I think I posted a review here on the board somewhere.
Basically, worth a rental, maybe... NOT worth a buy, if you're only
interested in ASFR material. Not much there basically but one shot of
green goop exploded gynoid chest... and a badly lit shot of blood and
guts and wires, eeewwww.
andoroido
Basically, worth a rental, maybe... NOT worth a buy, if you're only
interested in ASFR material. Not much there basically but one shot of
green goop exploded gynoid chest... and a badly lit shot of blood and
guts and wires, eeewwww.
andoroido
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Hidden Heroes
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Check out the image gallery. One shot shows the girlbot with her leg blown off (kinda like the scene in Robotrix).
Check out the image gallery. One shot shows the girlbot with her leg blown off (kinda like the scene in Robotrix).
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Re: Thanks
I didn't know about it either until you posted your message. I went looking, and ordered the dvd. Thank YOU
Thank YOU eyebore wrote:Hey Thanks Noid, nice find. I didn't know if anbody knew about that one or not. It looks like it might be worth the twelve bucks after all.
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How is it?
noidguy wrote:I didn't know about it either until you posted your message. I went looking, and ordered the dvd.
Hopefully you got this by now; so how is it Noid? Howzabout fillin' us in on the robotic content eh? Give us a quick review, please?
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Fembot content in "Hidden Heroes"
Alright, this gets a bit confusing. The plot involves time travel, so you know how that usually goes. A girl robot from the future shows up to make sure a certain person dies on a certain date in a certain way. The first bot gets blown up after getting involved in a police investigation. But you cannot tell she is a machine. No hints at all. Another bot appears as a replacement. This one introduces herself and makes it clear that she is a machine. She pulls a few audio/video cables from her collar and hooks herself up to a vcr. She then shows a video that describes her purpose. As her power runs low she pulls off her right leg. From her leg sprout cables with suction cups attached to the ends. I guess these cups collect solar energy or something as they stick to a plate glass window and vibrate. The main character witnesses all this and attempts to escape by knocking off her left leg. Apparently the left leg houses the battery, and when disconnected she shuts down. The bot slumps over, still smiling. The guy takes her body and dumps it in a water tank on the top of his building. Later, she reappears and says the water helped to recharge her battery. From then on she appears whenever the main character is in danger because she has to make sure he does not die prematurely. You see her do superhuman things: run fast, jump high, repel bullets, lift heavy stuff, etc. I suppose the recharging scenes are the best. Overall, nothing special, but some decent effects.
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Is this scene shown in the gallery of the Hidden Heros site? Just curious if pictures 16 and 17 are the type of thing you're talking about.The main character witnesses all this and attempts to escape by knocking off her left leg. Apparently the left leg houses the battery, and when disconnected she shuts down. The bot slumps over, still smiling.
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Re: Fembot content in "Hidden Heroes"
Noidguy,
The copy I received only worked up to the part where the bracelet appears on the robot girl's hand when they're in the cemetery ... what happens after that?
The copy I received only worked up to the part where the bracelet appears on the robot girl's hand when they're in the cemetery ... what happens after that?
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