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| Directed by | Kwak Jae-yong |
| Produced by | Ji Young-jun Hidemi Satani Mataichiro Yamamoto |
| Written by | Kwak Jae-yong |
| Starring | Haruka Ayase Keisuke Koide |
| Cinematography | Junichirô Hayashi |
| Editing by | Shuichi Kakesu |
| Release date(s) | May 12, 2008 |
| Running time | 120 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Cyborg She (僕の彼女はサイボーグ Boku no Kanojo wa Saibogu, literally "My Girlfriend is a Cyborg") is a 2008 Japanese film by Kwak Jae-yong starring Haruka Ayase and Keisuke Koide.
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It is November 22, 2007. Jirou Kitamura (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone. As he is buying a birthday present for himself in a department store, he catches sight of a 'cute girl' (Haruka Ayase). The girl, who also seems interested in him, follows him to a restaurant for his birthday meal, during which she suddenly states that it's 'her birthday too'. The two of them therefore exchange birthday presents. The girl, who seems unused to things as they are, behaves and speaks in a very bold manner- so much so that she rushes Jirou out of the restaurant without paying and provokes a chase after them throughout Tokyo. As the hijinks ensue, Jirou finds himself charmed by the girl. Unfortunately, after a few hours, the girl insists that she has to leave. After some mysterious words to him, she runs away, leaving him bemused.
The story then moves forward to November the 22nd, 2008. Exactly one year later, Jirou is celebrating his 21st birthday by himself in the same restaurant he ate in with the mysterious girl. All of a sudden, a girl who is the spitting image of her appears in front of him. This girl, however, has been sent to save him from a disastrous fate by a crippled future version of himself- she is, as his future self describes her, a cyborg modeled after the girl he met a year ago. Thus Jirou's strange life with the girl begins. Despite her 'cute' outward appearance, she is incredibly strong, and her behavior is erratic and otherworldly in comparison to other people's. She comes to Jirou's aid whenever he is in a difficult situation, and saves many other people's lives through her intervention.
Over time, Jirou not only becomes dependent on her, but also begins to fall for her. However, when it seems that she cannot return his feelings in the same way as he expresses them, he becomes irritated and forbids her to show herself in front of him again unless she can do so. He gradually regrets this, especially when it seems she is still doing things for him despite not being by his side. However, another disastrous incident which his future self hinted that he would have to suffer soon shows itself: a gigantic earthquake which completely devastates Tokyo as he knows it. As his apartment block collapses, the girl once again appears in order to help him- but this time, even her inhuman strength isn't enough to let her completely escape the consequences. After telling Jirou that she now understands his feelings, she is destroyed, and a distraught Jirou spends the next 61 years of his life trying to rebuild her. He eventually succeeds, although he passes away soon afterwards.
In that future time, a girl is alerted by one of her friends that there is a cyborg on display that looks just like her. Realizing this is the case, she is curious, and buys the now-shut down cyborg to experience the memories she has stored in her hard-drive. Intrigued, she fulfills her wish of going back in time to meet Jirou on his 20th birthday in 2007...
A girl who suddenly appeared before Jirou whilst he was celebrating his birthday alone. After a few hours, she stated that she had to go and vanished again. She seems to be a notable glutton. Her looks and eating habits were the model for the cyborg who later appeared to him. She seems to have a hidden agenda of her own, though...
The cyborg who the future Jirou sent back in time to protect his younger self from a terrible fate. She has superhuman strength and speed, can show holograms through her eyes, and can reproduce the past through this. She can shock people through electrical charge from her skin and eyes, and can also imitate people's voices perfectly after only hearing them once. She appears to be just like a normal person, down to her ability to eat. Drinking alcohol also seems to cause a malfunction in her system. She doesn't like being called a robot.
After Jirou's death, she was preserved in a museum, then put up for auction in the 22nd century.
Her conception and subsequent portrayal was intended to be similar to the behavior of cyborgs in the Terminator series, as a sort of homage as well as parody.
After acquiring the Cyborg Girl (whom she has a close resemblance to), she learns about its past, and travels back into 2007 where she meet Jirou (hence giving him a memory of her into 2008), and later into the year (not made clear) where Tokyo was devastated by an earthquake, so that she can marry Jirou and spend her life with him.
A university student who has bought a present for himself and gone to eat spaghetti at the same restaurant every year for his birthday. What he studies is unclear, although he attends lectures on mathematics. He has a part-time job at a hamburger shop.
His birthplace was in a small village in the mountains, although it was destroyed by an earthquake which led to the dispersal of all its residents.
Future Jirou became a millionaire through a lottery ticket he had originally purchased. However, the thought of the accident which left him disabled (a random shooting at the same restaurant) still weighed on him heavily, and he decided to send back a cyborg to change his younger self's fate.
When the present Jirou grows old and dies, a waxwork model of him is preserved in a museum alongside the cyborg he created.
The one who told Jirou that he should always eat noodles on his birthday for a long life. Thought to be deceased in 2008. It is a secret as to who she really is. Later revealed in the movie that she was Jirou's mother.
In the same year as he is at university. Seems to know a lot about cooking involving capibaras, and likes to impress girls.
Always has a lot of energy when talking about formulas in his lectures. Relentlessly throws chalk at his students, loves baseball and has quirky whole-body gestures when he strikes his target with flying bits chalk kept in a special box.
Seemingly lost his mind in the restaurant on the 22nd November 2008. Shot at the customers randomly with an automatic rifle, then poured gasoline all over the restaurant and planned to set fire to it. The cause of future Jirou's disability.
A manga adaption by Akihiro Nakamura was released on the 17th October 2008 (ISBN 4063755746). Based on the film, it was published in Kodansha Weekly Young Magazine, and will probably be released in a volume by KC Deluxe.
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