Year: 2000
Duration: 73'
This film is a pornographic fantasy set in the year 20XX and starts where Blade Runner left off. The Tyrell Corporation has become Genom Corporation, a multi-national company which has built a porno empire with "I.K.U. Coders". I.K.U. Coders travel in Sexscape and have sex with men and women in order to collect data on orgasms. Rachel and Deckard, who are now called Reiko and Dizzy, are in an elevator. Reiko, whose body is actually a hard disk composed of many gigabytes, is a Gen XXX I.K.U. Coder. Dizzy activates his sex-drive and starts the program OS I.K.U.3.0. Reiko appears in seven different configurations which wander through Tokyo's nocturnal hangouts.
Biography
film director
Shu Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang has lived in New York for twenty years and has been active in the world of American independent cinema since the 1980's. In 1994 he presented his first fiction film, Fresh Kill, in Berlin. He has made numerous video installations and Internet sites as a multi-medial artist. He has also created a web installation for the NTT/ICC Museum of Tokyo. Brandon, another of his web projects, was recently commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fresh Kill (1994), I.K.U. (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Shu Lea Cheang.
Plot: Asai Takashi, Shu Lea Cheang.
Screenplay: Shu Lea Cheang, XXX.
Director of photography: Kamoto Tetsuya.
Effetti visivi: VJ E-Male.
Art director: Sasaki Takashi.
Costume designer: Ito Kei.
Editor: Shirao Kazuhiro.
Music: The Saboten.
Cast and characters: Tokito Ayumu, Yumeno Maria, Sasaki Yumeka, Ariga Miho, Asou Myu, Tsuchida Etuyo.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Asai Takashi per Uplink Co., 1-8-17 Jin-nan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0041, Japan, tel. +81-3-54890755, fax +81-3-54890754, e-mail asai@uplink.co.jp.
Italian distribution: Monaco International, via Duilio 13, 00192 Roma, tel. +39-06-32609548, fax +39-06-32609489.