After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.

Hiroko Shimabukuro
as Mai Hitomi / AI

Eriko Imai
as Yoko

Takako Uehara
as Rika

Hitoe Arakaki
as Nao

Kenji Harada
as Yuu

Ryo Karato
as Satoshi Takanaka

Christopher Doyle
as Sakkaa / Soccer

Tomorowo Taguchi
as Goda

Issa Hentona
as Tooru

Shinobu Miyara
as Hiroyuki
Walruse
While extremely dated and takes place in then contemporary Japan of 1998, it should not be missed by anyone into cyberpunk. It is a commercial movie with very few artistic ambitions, but a well made example of the endless possibilities of the revolutionary internet back in the nineties, as perceived...