Sayonara (2015 film)

Sayonara

Poster
Japanese さようなら
Hepburn Sayōnara
Directed by Kōji Fukada
Produced by Keisuke Konishi
Hiroyuki Onogawa
Kōji Fukada
Bryerly Long[1]
Screenplay by Kōji Fukada
Based on a play by Oriza Hirata
Starring Bryerly Long
Geminoid F
Music by Hiroyuki Onogawa[1]
Cinematography Akiko Serizawa[1]
Edited by Naohiro Urabe
Koji Fukada[1]
Production
companies
Phantom Film
K&AG
Tokyo Garage
AtomX
Addix
Letre
Katsu-do[1]
Release dates
  • October 2015 (2015-10) (TIFF)
  • November 21, 2015 (2015-11-21) (Japan)
Running time
 112 minutes[2]
Country Japan
Language Japanese
English
French
German[2]

Sayonara (Japanese: さようなら Hepburn: Sayōnara, lit. "Goodbye") 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 an android performing opposite a human actor".[3] It premiered in October 2015 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and is scheduled for release in Japan on November 21, 2015.[4][3]

Cast

Release

The world premiere of the film was in October 2015, at the Tokyo International Film Festival.[3] It is scheduled for release in Japan on November 21, 2015.[4]

Reception

Critical reception

Peter Debruge of Variety called the film a "dreary study of human-robot relations [that] offers little to engage apart from its pretty scenery."[2]

Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "dark, hopeless and pretty depressing [...] post-apocalyptic Japanese mood piece".[1]

Accolades

The film was in competition at the 2015 Tokyo International Film Festival.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Deborah Young (October 24, 2015). "'Sayonara': Tokyo Review". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Peter Debruge (October 24, 2015). "Tokyo Film Review: 'Sayonara'". variety.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 James Hadfield (October 24, 2015). "Tokyo: 'Sayonara' Filmmakers Debate Future of Robot Actors". variety.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "さようなら(2015)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
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