I.K.U

UK Premiere. (90min uncut version)

Time: Midnight
Date: 01-02-02
Venue: Metro, Rupert St
Director: Shu Lea Cheang
Country: Japan
Runtime: 90
Colour: Colour

Language: English/Japanese



Plot Outline: Reiko is a sex robot programmed to accumulate sexual experience. She goes through seven body types to experiences a variety of couplings. She returns to the company to download her accumulated info and escape from their control.

"Iku" means "to come" in Japanese. When arriving at orgasm, the Japanese calls out "Iku, iku !". The sci-fi porn film "I.K.U." is a kind of erotic Blade Runner. The action takes place in a futurist world where power and technology dominate, human sex is an alien experience. The main character is Reiko, an Iku Coder replicant belonging to the Genom Corporation, a company which sells virtual sex. Iku Coders collect orgasm data while having sex with human beings. The collected data are memorised inside an Iku Coder's hard-drive body, in a form of colourful mosaic-patterns…