Japanese Robot Movie: HINOKIO
Don't you hate it when you miss all of those cool artsy film festivals?
Especially when you find out there was an interesting robot movie in the list? HINOKIO
(I think it's supposed to sound like Pinocchio?) is a new Japanese robot movie
with English Subtitles that was recently released. The story goes that
Hinokio is an avatar for a Japanese boy who withdraws after his mother
dies. He sends the remote control bot his father invented to school
sort of as a distance-learning device and he experiences the world
through the robot's eyes. The boy even develops friendships and a love
interest through the bot! At some point the boy realizes it's just a
robotic simulation and he'll have to go out into the actual world to
really experience it. OK, well the movie was released in September
2005 so perhaps it's just hasn't reached the US yet or it's
already at the movie rental store already (or soon) or more likely, it's
because they're really so proud of the movie that they want you to pay $79 for
it. Anyway, I hadn't heard of it yet until now. So keep an eye out for
it and let us hear your review of this touching movie. You can see a
trailer for the movie on Apple's website. Related links...
OK, to be fair, $79 Hong Kong dollars is like $10 US dollars. :-)
Sorry about that.
It will be showing in thailand soon too.... many many people are
interested in it... especially kids... however... looks like Major
Cineplex (a famous theator in Thailand) does not really advertising it
that much. I'm afraid this movie will turn out to be a drama ...
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