Sayonara
Poster
Japanese name
Kanjiさようなら
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnSayōnara
Directed byKōji Fukada
Screenplay byKōji Fukada
Based ona play by Oriza Hirata
Produced byKeisuke Konishi
Hiroyuki Onogawa
Kōji Fukada
Bryerly Long[1]
StarringBryerly Long
Geminoid F
CinematographyAkiko Ashizawa[2]
Edited byNaohiro Urabe
Koji Fukada[1]
Music byHiroyuki Onogawa[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]
CountryJapan
LanguagesJapanese
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 a Gynoid performing opposite a human actor".[3] It premiered in October 2015 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and was 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] The film was then released 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 Deborah Young (October 24, 2015). "'Sayonara': Tokyo Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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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