The developement of I.K.U. system that the GENOM Corporation has been planning to offer for sale reaches its final stage. An innovative information technology enabled the development of the system. It will make people attain orgasm without having any touch between genitals, since the people will be able to receive the I.K.U. data directly to the brain by accessing to the I.K.U. server.
To complete the I.K.U. system, it is necessary to collect the orgasm data of every kind of person. So the GENOM Corporation sends out to New Tokyo seven sexy replicants "Reiko", who can transform themselves depending on prople's desires.
"I.K.U." is a sexy role-playing movie of orgasm hunting by the seven "Reiko".
< A net-surfing movie for the Internet Generation >
"Reiko" are the replicants of the GENOM Corporation. To collect the data for the I.K.U. system, they have been set out to New Tokyo and have various patterns of sex with men and women one after another. "I.K.U" continiously warps freely from scene to scene. It might be the same sense with net-sufing that takes people everywhere they want in the world only by entering the address of a web site.
In the history of movies which were invented 100 years ago, like dramas, the story of the novel form has been represented by its characters. However, the internet which appeared at the end of the 20th century has revolutionized the world.
First of all, computers gained the ability to communicate, then the technology spread to telephone and television. Now both young and old people are absorbed in aquiring to use the skill this new treasure. Following the current trend of the times, it would not be strange that the movies receive some influence from the internet.
"I.K.U." is a movie that was produced for the Internet Generation. The story developes like doing net-surfing. Shooting with digital video cameras. Non-linear editing with computers. No doubt "I.K.U." warps you to the world of the enhanced image.
< The near future that business controls personal pleasure >
"It wasn't love, it was sex." are the words in "I.K.U." that describe the sex scenes obstinately. Why? Because this is the@promotion movie of the I.K.U. Chip that GENOM Corporation has developed (please see the official site www.i-k-u.com to see this structure)
You connect to the I.K.U. server by plugging a I.K.U. Chip into the Net Glass Phone -- It is like an evaluated form of the net idles or the net hunting on the internet. The sex industry in near future will only seek sexual pleasure and easily offer the orgasm data. Is it possible for people to enjoy having physical sex again once if they are enslaved by virtual ecstasy? What will the human race create from the new pleasures gained after being free from the ecstasy gained by physical friction?
"I.K.U" describes an era in which business controls personal pleasure. This SF movie foretells of an all to near future warns against the present world in which the boundary of the human race is becoming unclear and the words like "Human Genome", "Clone", or "Human Robot" are being whispered.
< A plastic gender represented by digital art >
Although the movie is made up with an on parade of the nakid body and fuck, the scenes are not realistic at all. There only drifts a unique mood of ecstasy --- beautiful, and even like magic. Every cut is like a picture of digital art, at the same time it is like a comic book. A plastic ecstasy in which CG and music intertwine --- it is as if a virtual ecstasys is gained through the internet.
The director of the movie is Shu Lee Chan, who creates her art by making full use of the internet and digital techniques and is highly praised by the museums all over the world. The shooting is Kamoto Tetsuya, who is known for his music videos of Utada Hikaru and L'Arc`en`Ciel. The CG is created by E-MAIL, who plays an active role in the concert tour of GRAY or in club scenes. The music is presented by Hoppy Kamiyama and SABOTEN.
"I.K.U." tries to create the most advanced digital movie by gathering talented people of various kinds from all over the world who are versed in digital art.
< "Pussy point of view" --- the pornography with women's eyes >
"I.K.U." monopolised the topics at the Sundance Film Festival and more than 20 other international film festivals. At all film festivals, "I.K.U." was regarded of "the pussy point of view", the seeings of sex from vagina. Many women accepted "I.K.U." and made the comment, "I wanted to see more penises!"
The director is also a female and the seven replicants "Reiko" are the key to the story. A world that is like being in the defferent dimension or in cyberspace is somehow tender like being in the womb. This differs from the usual pornography that exists only as an outlet of man's desire, "I.K.U." is the brand new pornogaraphy that was born for the next generation.
< The mosaic data is the I.K.U. data >
The I.K.U. data is made up of visual and voice data in mosaic. Of the countries which have regulations against sexual expression, Japan's is one of the most nonsensical. Hiding genitals by mosaic peculiary grew in the field of pornography in Japan. Japanese men have gained their ecstasies by imaginating women's genitals beyond the mosaic visuals and voices. That is to say that Japanese people have made themselves into an exceptional nation which is aroused by a mosaic. "I.K.U." chose Tokyo in near future for its stage to parody their ecstasy, and expressed orgasm data in the pattern of a mosaic.
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