Synopsis
This documentary mixs the images pulled from Japanese cartoons, the interviews of creators of fictions, by sociologists, by specialists in robotics, and the shootings in the laboratories where they conceive robot humanoids, to explain why and how the Japanese get ready to live with robots, on the tracks of Astroboy.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films d'Ici
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producers : Serge Lalou, Laurent Duret
- Screenwriter : Étienne Barral
- Director of Photography : Yuichi Nagata
- Music Composer : Denis Lefdup
- Editor : Jérôme Lefdup
- Sound Recordist : Daisuke Fujioka
- Production managers : Carine Ruszniewski, Maud Huynh, Catherine Grel, Isabelle Ormières
- Sound Mixer : Denis Lefdup
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Science fiction , Fantasy
- Themes : Science, Society, Science fiction/Futuristic
- Production language : Japanese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 53 min
- Production formats : HD-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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