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[Machine Translation] Kei Ishikawa, who has attracted worldwide attention for his works "The Book of Fools" (17) and "Honeybee and Thunder" (19), has adapted the short stories of Ken Liu, the world-renowned author who has won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the World Literature Award for Fantasy Literature. A magnificent entertainment filled with wonder and amazement ( =sense of wonder ) about the life of a woman who gained eternal life for the first time in the history of mankind! Starring Kyoko Yoshine and co-starring Shinobu Terajima, Masaki Okada, Chieko Baisho, Jun Fubuki, Kaoru Kobayashi, and a host of other splendid actors. --The story is set in the not-so-distant future, where at the age of 17, Rina, seeking freedom in her life, leaves her newborn son and leads a vagabond life. At 19, she meets Emma, who becomes her teacher, and takes a job creating ("body works") under her. She was to work for people who had lost loved ones, performing plastination (plastination) to preserve the bodies of the deceased as they had lived. Emma's younger brother, Amane, develops this technique and finally achieves "immortality" through stop-aging. Lina becomes the first woman in the world to receive this treatment, and she will live forever in her 30-year-old body...

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ネビュラ賞・ヒューゴー賞・世界幻想文学賞の3冠を制覇する世界的作家ケン・リュウの短篇小説を、『愚行録』(17)『蜜蜂と遠雷』(19)で世界から注目を集める石川慶が映画化! 人類史上初めて永遠の命を得た女性の人生を描く、驚嘆と不思議(=センスオブワンダー)に彩られた壮大なるエンターテインメント! 主演・芳根京子、共演に、寺島しのぶ、岡田将生、倍賞千恵子、風吹ジュン、小林薫など、豪華演技派俳優陣が顔を揃えた話題作。――舞台はそう遠くない未来。17歳で人生に自由を求め、生まれたばかりの息子と別れて放浪生活を送っていたリナは、19歳で師となるエマと出会い、彼女の下で〈ボディワークス〉を作るという仕事に就く。それは最愛の存在を亡くした人々のために、遺体を生きていた姿のまま保存できるように施術(プラスティネーション)する仕事であった。エマの弟・天音はこの技術を発展させ、遂にストップエイジングによる「不老不死」を完成させる。リナはその施術を受けた世界初の女性となり、30歳の身体のまま永遠の人生を生きていくことになるが・・・。

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