Natural City
Encyclopedia
Natural City is a 2003 South Korean science fiction film
about a colony world that integrates robot
s, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.
. They have a limited 3 year lifespan, although black market technology has been developed to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence
into the brain of a human host.
This breakthrough compels R into finding Cyon, an orphaned prostitute, who may serve as the host for the mind of his doll Ria. He has fallen deeply in love with his doll and she has only a few days left to live.
Eventually, R must make a decision between leaving the colony with Ria and spend her last days with him on a paradise-like planet or save his friends when a renegade combat cyborg takes over the police headquarters.
Science fiction film
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...
about a colony world that integrates robot
Robot
A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
s, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.
Plot
Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. The cyborgs serve a number of duties, ranging from military commandos to "dolls", engineered for companionshipSex worker
A sex worker is a person who works in the sex industry. The term is usually used in reference to those in the sex industry that actually provide such sexual services, as opposed to management and staff of such industries...
. They have a limited 3 year lifespan, although black market technology has been developed to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence
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...
into the brain of a human host.
This breakthrough compels R into finding Cyon, an orphaned prostitute, who may serve as the host for the mind of his doll Ria. He has fallen deeply in love with his doll and she has only a few days left to live.
Eventually, R must make a decision between leaving the colony with Ria and spend her last days with him on a paradise-like planet or save his friends when a renegade combat cyborg takes over the police headquarters.
Cast
- Yoo Ji-tae as R
- Lee Jae-eun as Cyon
- Seo Lin as Ria
- Jeong Eun-pyo as Croy
- Yoon Chan as Noma
- Jeong Doo-hong as Cypher
- Ko Ju-hye as Ami
External links
- Natural City at HanCinema