You might have known about the Korean movie, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK. Well, this isn’t a mere remake cause it has a different plot, if not totally different, from the Korean movie. Cyborg She revolves around the story of how (and why) a cyborg girl enters the life of a nearly anti-social and loner college student.

This movie was directed by Kwak Jae-young, the Korean director who was also behind My Sassy Girl and Windstruck. Cyborg She is supposed to be the last part of his Sassy Girl trilogy but I haven’t watch the others yet so I really don’t know what makes it a trilogy.

So basically, the movie starts off with love life-deprived Kitamura Jiro (Koide Keisuke) celebrating his birthday alone until he randomly stumbles upon a girl who seems to be amused seeing him and then follows him. The girl claims that it’s her birthday and Jiro tells her that it’s her birthday too.

They celebrate and make ruckus throughout the night until she tells him of a sad memory of how she was dumped by a guy because she walks in a weird way, eats too much, and punches too hard. She leaves him bemused and Jiro never got to see her again until exactly a year after when a girl who looks the same appears and celebrates together with him.

It is during that night that this girl saves him from a deranged man who just randomly shot his surroundings. He then finds out that the unnamed girl is a cyborg made by himself from the future to save him from something huge. This is when the real melodrama starts. But I’m not going to spoil anything for you here.

There’s just too much complex twists in this film for me to be able to write a decent review so I’m not going to say anything more about the plot. Besides the interesting and sort of mind-boggling plot, what amused me is how it would make you think you’re watching some kind of romantic comedy in the beginning – slapstick comedy courtesy of none other than the inhumanly strong cyborg girl and nonlinear random portrayals of her (i.e., electricuting with her eyes, imitating voices, super speed, etc.) that seem to be of great significance whatsoever to the plot.

After a the playful antics, the plot suddenly starts to have significance and shifts to a dramatic tone. If you’re lucky, it could elicit a few tears from you too. I recommend this to those who love being mind-boggled by time travel paradoxes and also to those who would enjoy a unique, melodramatic (neither comedy nor tragedy) love story.

• Movie: Cyborg Girl / Cyborg She / My Girlfriend Is a Cyborg
• Romaji: Boku no kanojo wa saibogu
• Japanese: 僕の彼女はサイボーグ
• Director: Kwak Jae-young
• Runtime: 120 min.
• Starring:
  Ayase Haruka – Cyborg
  Koide Keisuke – Kitamura Jiro

Cyborg She [Wikipedia]

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