Natural City
Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationNaechureol siti
McCune–ReischauerNaechurŏl sit‘i
Directed byMin Byeong-cheon
Written byMin Byeong-cheon
Produced byLee Dong-jun
StarringYoo Ji-tae
Lee Jae-eun
Seo Lin
Music byLee Jae-jin
Distributed byTube Entertainment
Release date
  • September 5, 2003 (2003-09-05)
Running time
113 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Budget$5.8 million[1]

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

Reception

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

References

  1. ↑ "Natural City". Korean Cinema 2003. Korean Film Commission(KO FIC). 2003. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
  2. ↑ Natural City Review. variety.com (October 16, 2003). Retrieved on August 28, 2020.


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