Sayonara
Poster
Japanese name
Kanji	さようなら
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Sayōnara
Directed by	Kōji Fukada
Screenplay by	Kōji Fukada
Based on	a play by Oriza Hirata
Produced by	Keisuke Konishi Hiroyuki Onogawa Kōji Fukada Bryerly Long[1]
Starring	Bryerly Long Geminoid F
Cinematography	Akiko Ashizawa[2]
Edited by	Naohiro Urabe Koji Fukada[1]
Music by	Hiroyuki Onogawa[1]
Production companies	Phantom Film K&AG Tokyo Garage AtomX Addix Letre Katsu-do[1]
Release dates	October 2015 (2015-10) (TIFF) November 21, 2015 (2015-11-21) (Japan)
Running time	112 minutes[2]
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese English French German[2]

Sayonara (Japanese: さようなら, Hepburn: Sayōnara, lit. "Goodbye") is a 2015 Japanese film written and directed by Kōji Fukada and based on a play by Oriza Hirata. Starring Bryerly Long and Geminoid F, the film was promoted as "the first movie to feature a Gynoid performing opposite a human actor".^[3] It premiered in October 2015 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and was scheduled for release in Japan on November 21, 2015.^[4][3]

Cast

• Bryerly Long as Tanya^[1]
• Geminoid F^[1]
• Hirofumi Arai^[1]
• Makiko Murata^[1]
• Nijirō Murakami^[1]
• Yukio Kibiki^[1]
• Jérôme Kircher^[1]
• Irene Jacob^[1]
• Noémie Nakai

Release

The world premiere of the film was in October 2015, at the Tokyo International Film Festival.^[3] The film was then released in Japan on November 21, 2015.^[4]

Reception

Critical reception

Peter Debruge of Variety called the film a "dreary study of human-robot relations [that] offers little to engage apart from its pretty scenery."^[2]

Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "dark, hopeless and pretty depressing [...] post-apocalyptic Japanese mood piece".^[1]

Accolades

The film was in competition at the 2015 Tokyo International Film Festival.^[3]