Andromedia is a 1998 Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese film directed by Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike

is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

, featuring the Japanese musical groups SPEED

Speed (band)

Speed is an Okinawan female vocal/dance group comprising Hiroko Shimabukuro, Eriko Imai, Takako Uehara and Hitoe Arakaki. All four members are former students of Okinawa Actors School which also trained popular artists Namie Amuro and MAX.Speed made their major label debut on August 5, 1996 and...

 and Da Pump

Da Pump

is an Okinawan male idol group comprising lead vocalist, Issa and MCs Ken, Yukinari, and Shinobu. The group formed as students at Okinawa Actors School in 1996...

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Plot

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro , best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer. She debuted as a member of the popular girl group Speed in 1996. In 1998, hiro released her first solo song "Mitsumete Itai" as a B-side to Speed's single "All My True Love"...

 plays the character of Mai Hitomi, who gives her boyfriend Yuu his first kiss and is promptly hit by a truck. She is then recreated as an AI

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 by her father, a scientist, who had completely scanned ("digitized") her before her death. The film depicts the continuing love between Yuu and the digital copy of Mai, who can only interact across the computer terminal.

Cast

• Hiroko Shimabukuro
  Hiroko Shimabukuro
  Hiroko Shimabukuro , best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer. She debuted as a member of the popular girl group Speed in 1996. In 1998, hiro released her first solo song "Mitsumete Itai" as a B-side to Speed's single "All My True Love"...
  
   as Mai Hitomi & Ai
• Eriko Imai
  Eriko Imai
  is a Japanese pop artist. She made her debut in the early 1990s as part of the group Speed which disbanded in March 2000. Eriko began her work away from Speed during 1998, performing "Tsumetaku Shinai de", under the stage name "Eriko with Crunch", on the Speed single "All My True Love"...
  
   as Yôko
• Takako Uehara
  Takako Uehara
  is a Jpop singer, actress, and former radio host. She is a member of the group Speed. Uehara was born in Okinawa, Japan.Her highly anticipated first solo single 'My First Love' was released in January 1999, and was produced by legendary pop/rock superstar Ryuichi Kawamura ."My First Love" was the...
  
   as Rika
• Hitoe Arakaki
  Hitoe Arakaki
  is the oldest member of the Japanese pop group Speed, which disbanded in 2000 and reformed in 2009. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, and is also known purely by her first name, Hitoe...
  
   as Nao
• Kenji Harada as Yuu
• Ryô Karato as Satoshi Takanaka
• Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle is a cinematographer. He has won the AFI Award for cinematography, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards , and Hong Kong Film Award . Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.-Biography:Doyle was born in Sydney,...
  
   as Sakkaa/Soccer
• Tomorowo Taguchi
  Tomorowo Taguchi
  is a Japanese actor.After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan in 1982...
  
   as Gôda
• Issa Hentona as Tooru
• Shinobu Miyara as Hiroyuki
• Yukinari Tamaki as Kazuma
• Ken Okumoto as Daiki
• Anna Ide as Mai as a child
• Akihiro Yoshikawa as Yuu as a child
• Kazuki Kitamura
  Kazuki Kitamura
  is a Japanese film and television actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 14th Yokohama Film Festival for Minazuki, Kyohansha and Kanzen-naru shiiku.-Movies:...
  
   as Sada
• Michelle Gazepis as Sakkaa's/Soccer's secretary
• Hiromi Suzuki
  Hiromi Suzuki
  Hiromi Suzuki is a Japanese illustrator.She was nominated for in 2006.She works for magazines,newspaper,and for advertising.-External links:**...
  
  as Mai's mother
• Naoto Takenaka
  Naoto Takenaka
  is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi.-Director:*Munō no Hito *119...
  
   as Kurosawa
• Tsunehiko Watase
  Tsunehiko Watase
  is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle...
  
  as Toshihiko Hitomi/Mai's father/Ai's creator