Natural City

Natural City
Natural City
	Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul	내츄럴 시티
Revised Romanization	Naechureol siti
McCune–Reischauer	Naechurŏl sit'i
Directed by	Min Byeong-cheon
Written by	Min Byeong-cheon
Produced by	Lee Dong-jun
Starring	Yoo Ji-tae; Lee Jae-eun; Seo Lin
Music by	Lee Jae-jin
Distributed by	Tube Entertainment
Release date	September 5, 2003;
Running time	113 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Budget	$5.8 million

Natural City (Korean: 내츄럴 시티) is a 2003 South Korean science fiction film, set in a dystopian^[2] future, about a colony world that integrates robots, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.

Plot

Two police officers, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. The cyborgs serve a number of duties, ranging from military commandos to "dolls", engineered for companionship. They have a limited 3-year lifespan, although black market technology has been developed to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into the brain of a human host.

This breakthrough compels R into finding Cyon, an orphaned prostitute, who may serve as the host for the mind of his doll Ria. He has fallen deeply in love with his doll and she has only a few days left to live.

Eventually, R must make a decision between leaving the colony with Ria to spend her last days with him on a paradise-like planet or save his friends when a renegade combat cyborg takes over the police headquarters.

Cast

Yoo Ji-tae as R
Lee Jae-eun as Cyon
Seo Lin as Ria
Jung Eun-pyo as Croy
Yoon Chan as Noma
Jung Doo-hong as Cypher
Ko Ju-hye as Ami

Reception

The film received mixed to positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave at the film 67% positive reviews.

References

^ "Natural City". Korean Cinema 2003. Korean Film Commission(KO FIC). 2003. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
^ Natural City Review Archived 2018-07-13 at the Wayback Machine. variety.com (October 16, 2003). Retrieved on August 28, 2020.

External links

Natural City at IMDb
‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Natural City at AllMovie
Natural City at HanCinema
Natural City at Rotten Tomatoes

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[NaturalCityKOFIC-1] "Natural City". Korean Cinema 2003. Korean Film Commission(KO FIC). 2003. Retrieved January 2, 2024.

[2] Natural City Review Archived 2018-07-13 at the Wayback Machine. variety.com (October 16, 2003). Retrieved on August 28, 2020.

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