| Sayonara | |||||
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| Director: | Kōji Fukada | ||||
| Producer: | Keisuke Konishi Hiroyuki Onogawa Kōji Fukada Bryerly Long | ||||
| Screenplay: | Kōji Fukada | ||||
| Based On: | a play by Oriza Hirata | ||||
| Starring: | Bryerly Long Geminoid F | ||||
| Music: | Hiroyuki Onogawa | ||||
| Cinematography: | Akiko Ashizawa | ||||
| Editing: | Naohiro Urabe Koji Fukada | ||||
| Studio: | Phantom Film K&AG<br>Tokyo Garage AtomX Addix Letre Katsu-do | ||||
| Runtime: | 112 minutes | ||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||
| Language: | Japanese English French German | ||||
is a 2015 Japanese film written and directed by Kōji Fukada and based on a play 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.[1]
The world premiere of the film was in October 2015, at the Tokyo International Film Festival.[2] The film was then released in Japan on November 21, 2015.[1]
Peter Debruge of Variety called the film a "dreary study of human-robot relations [that] offers little to engage apart from its pretty scenery."[3]
Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "dark, hopeless and pretty depressing [...] post-apocalyptic Japanese mood piece".[4]
The film was in competition at the 2015 Tokyo International Film Festival.[2]