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Cyborg She on DVD in October

28 September 2009

Jiro Kitamura (Keisuke Koide) is a teenage student living in Tokyo who each year celebrates his birthday alone, buying himself a gift and dining on the same meal at the same restaurant. Shopping in a department store on the evening of his 20th birthday, Jiro witnesses an attractive young girl (Haruka Ayase) trying on a new outfit and leaving the store without paying. Later, as he sits down for dinner, the mysterious girl shows up at the restaurant and announces that it's her birthday too. They spend the rest of the evening together, but at the end of what proves to be Jiro's best birthday ever the girl disappears.

Exactly one year later, the girl reappears and joins Jiro for his annual birthday meal. When a crazed customer unleashes a torrent of gunfire on the restaurant, it is only the actions of his pretty companion that save Jiro from the hail of bullets. His saviour then reveals the shocking truth about her existence – she is, in fact, a cyborg built by Jiro's elderly future self and sent back to the present to prevent him from being crippled by the gunman. It's not long before romance is in the air and Jiro begins to fall for his "creation" who, sadly, is incapable of feeling emotions. Realising his love is in vain, Jiro gives up his attempts at establishing a romantic relationship and returns to his solitary life. But things change when a devastating earthquake hits the city and the cyborg appears once more to save his life.

Haruka Ayase (Ichi; Hero) and Keisuke Koide (Gokusen: The Movie) star in Cyborg She (Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu) century-spanning love story that pulls off the tricky feat of melding two seemingly mismatched genres, science fiction and romantic comedy. Ayase is particularly impressive as the cute cyborg who wants to please her creator but doesn't quite know how, while the dramatic and brilliantly envisioned destruction of Tokyo will thrill viewers as the film builds to its moving, bittersweet tear-jerking climax.

Cyborg She will be released on UK DVD on 26th October by 4Digital Asia at the RRP of £14.99. No extra features have been detailed as yet.