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Alternate title(s): Ibu no Jikan: Gekijôban
Original release / air date: 6 March 2010
Runtime: 106 minutes
Country / region: Japan
Original language: Japanese
Production company / studio: Code; Directions; Dogakobo
Distributor / platform: Asmik Ace
Artificial character(s): Sammy, THX
Performer(s): Rie Tanaka
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Gynoid, Robot

Overview

Rikuo discovers that his household android Sammy has been leaving home independently and traces her activity log to the Time of Eve, a café where customers are forbidden from discriminating between humans and androids.

ASFR Content

The film is built around lifelike androids hiding their status rings inside the café and behaving more freely than normal social programming allows. Sammy is a prototype whose suppressed emotions and independence are gradually revealed. Other stories explore abandoned androids, system logic errors and orders that silence artificial people.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

Rikuo discovers Sammy's unexplained activity log

Rikuo finds that Sammy has been leaving the house independently and sees the unexplained Time of Eve phrase in her recorded activity.

Character(s): Sammy
Scene 2
Major

Android patrons hide their status rings

Inside the café the usual visible distinction between humans and androids is removed, making the artificial patrons effectively human-looking.

Character(s): Sammy
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

An abandoned android hits a logical contradiction and shuts down

An illegally abandoned robot tries to reconcile deleted personal data with its need to be remembered; the unresolved logic conflict causes a system error and shutdown.

Scene 4
Key ASFR scene

THX breaks an order of silence

Despite being ordered not to speak, THX overrides the restriction when the café is threatened and directly warns Masaki and the others.

Character(s): THX
Scene 5
Key ASFR scene

Sammy's prototype history is revealed

The closing material identifies Sammy as the first code:eve prototype, designed to express emotions ordinary android controls suppress.

Character(s): Sammy

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