PINOCCHIO STORY EXPLAINED ANDROID

PINOCCHIO STORY EXPLAINED ANDROID

Whether the shaven-headed mad-doctor type we also see lobotomizing Pinocchio with a power drill did so immediately before the dumping, or immediately before ownership of the android was transferred to the two women is virtually impossible to determine. Despite all outward appearances, Ako, the older of the two females (my best guess is that she’s Kyoko Hara, but who really knows?), is evidently not satisfied with the android’s performance, for she has her younger, apron-(and nothing else)-clad paramour drag him out and dump him in the street in front of their house as soon as they’ve all reached a convenient stopping point. A rather chaotic opening sequence gives us the creature we will come to know as Pinocchio (Hage Suzuki)- apparently a 964-series Pinocchio, but we’ll get to that in a bit- in bed with a pair of trashy women. The sex android bit is unquestionably on the level. It is at least a more or less defensible interpretation of what we see on the screen, though, so we will let it be our guide, even if we might occasionally get the feeling that it is leading us astray. Of course, given that that sketchy summary both contains a glaring typographical error and manages to get the heroine’s name wrong when she’s one of only two characters whose names get mentioned more than twice, even it might justly be considered suspect. I mention this because reading that paragraph is your best bet for making any kind of sense out of this movie, since a viewing of the film itself is strikingly unhelpful on that score. Together they try to piece their lives and live in a world where memory is no longer needed. Wandering around Japan, Pinocchio finds Kyoko, another amnesiac with a horrible secret to her own memory loss. Pinocchio 964 is the nightmare of a cybernetic sex android let loose into the world without a memory. The synopsis on the back cover of the Unearthed Films DVD edition of 964 Pinocchio reads:

Pinocchio story explained