Kurumi’s heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. Forced to carry on without her beloved Hal she fell into a reclusive and joyless existence. Kurumi had given up on the world but a brilliant scientist devised a plan to win her back. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion they created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal s place and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude. Resistant at first this shattered beauty slowly yielded to her feelings of longing and took... comfort in the company of a robot. Though their unique bond grew stronger with each passing day Kurumi and Hal would soon discover that nothing about their artificial love story was quite as it seemed. Contains both original Japanese language with subtitles as well as the English dub. [show more]
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Futuristic Japanese animated feature. In a technologically-advanced society in the near future, where robots can be programmed to imitate complete human beings, a young girl's grief over her recently deceased boyfriend leads a scientist to devise a plan to get her enjoying life again. Ever since Kurimi (Yôko Hikasa)'s boyfriend passed away in a tragic plane accident, she has been in mourning and living a reclusive life. This all changes when her boyfriend's place is taken by a robot named Hal (Yoshimasa Hosoya) and Kurimi is forced to disregard her reservations and yield to the company of the robot. But will their artificial love be sustainable and will Hal be able to fully understand what it means to be a loving human being?
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