Cyborg She is a great romantic movie starring Haruka Ayase. Haruka Ayase played a cyborg that came back to the current year from the future. Haruka Ayase is tasked to help Jiro (her future employer and creator).
In the process, Jiro falls in love with Haruka Ayase. But the problem is that the Cyborg She 'appears' only once a year during Jiro birthday – or did she really appear?
Profile of Haruka Ayase:
* Weight: 48kg
* Height: 165cm
* Star Sign: Aries
* Blood Type: B
* B/W/H: 88 / 62 / 92
* Talent Agency: Horipro
* Birthdate: 24 Mar 1985
Career of Haruka Ayase:
In 1999, she successfully passed the Horipro Talent Scout Caravan audition. She first achieved widespread recognition for her starring roles in the short film Justice; in 2004 she rose to stardom as Aki in the TV series Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World.
On March 24, 2006 she released her first single, titled "Period" (????, Periodo), the lyrics of which were written by Kaori Mochida from Every Little Thing and Takeshi Kobayashi. Kobayashi also composed and arranged the music, as well as producing the single.
She has also released two photo books: Birth in 2001 and Heroine in 2004.
Personal life Haruka Ayase:
She entered Teikyo University Junior College in 2003, later dropping out.
Ayase excels in many sports; as a junior high school student she took part in a Chugoku region Ekiden tournament.
Lonesome, geeky Jiro Kitamura (Keisuke Koide) is lonesome no longer at his birthday party, thanks to a femme cyborg (Haruka Ayase) from the year 2133 who's traveled back to 2007 with his ex-g.f.'s looks and memory chip. (Don't ask.) Virtuoso f/x sequence, in which she drinks a beer and her head literally starts spinning, sets up the comedy for the next few reels, as she helps Jiro and other citizens like some kind of Asian Supergirl.
The story gains some emotional traction as Jiro falls for the cyborg and she suggests they visit his hometown. Alas, it was destroyed in an earthquake, so she arranges a time warp for them to revisit his childhood, on the condition that he touches nothing.
The heart of the movie is back in Tokyo, where the question is raised as to whether, beneath her fixed smile, the cyborg can ever feel Jiro's growing attachment to her. When an earthquake hits Tokyo, it's a question Jiro, rather than she, has to deal with.
Though the central relationship is never as engaging as in local megahit "My Sassy Girl," the pic balances on the same emotional fulcrum of unrequited love beneath surface comedy. Partly thanks to the closing reels' superb visual effects, which pack a dramatic punch without drawing attention to their artifice, the finale (including a brief coda set 61 years later) is genuinely touching.
Koide has the most expressive role, but it's Ayase who holds the screen as the always smiling, beautiful cyborg who may have an emotional circuit board of her own. Technical package, in the hands of an all-Japanese crew, is smooth on all levels. Where "Sassy" had a thoroughly South Korean feel and "Windstruck" a more Hong Kong one, the Japan-shot and -funded "Cyborg" is echt-Nipponese, despite the helmer's nationality.
Camera (color, widescreen), Junichiro Hayashi; editor, Shuichi Kakesu; music, Naoki Otsubo; art director, Tomoyuki Maruo; visual effects, HAL, Softimage. Reviewed at PiFan Film Festival (closer), Bucheon, South Korea, July 26, 2008. Running time: 100 MIN.
"Cyborg She"
("Boku no kanojo wa saibogu" — Japan)
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