Koreeda’s 17th feature unfolds in a Japan a half-step into the future, where drones deliver everything, the cars are all electric and generative AI has reached into the most intimate corners of family life. Architect Otone (Haruka Ayase) and her carpenter husband Kensuke (comedian turned actor Daigo) are wracked with grief over the death of their young son when they come upon a new robotics company whose services target families in their sad predicament. Using the photos, videos and other digital traces of a lost love one, the company creates AI-powered humanoid replicas of the deceased, offering families a replacement and continuation of sorts. The story takes flight when the android creation of their beloved son arrives in a box at Otone and Kensuke’s doorstep in the Tokyo suburbs.
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