Natural City

Natural City

2003 · 114 min · KO · 5.4 (123 votes)
Dir. Min Byung-chun · Starring Yoo Ji-tae, Lee Jae-eun, Seo Rin, Jung Eun-pyo, Jung Doo-hong, Kim Eul-dong · Music Lee Jae-jin

“The war has begun.”

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Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.

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A rain-slicked, neon-drenched future noir. It feels like a melancholic, gritty dive into the blurred lines between human and machine, where existential dread meets artificial longing. A contemplative, stylish descent into a world of synthetic souls.

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