Rôjin to rabudôru: Watashi ga shochô ni natta toki... AKA Maid-Droid (2008) - Naoyuki Tomomatsu

 

 Quote: Mr. Ueno, retired, lives alone; he talks to Maria, a maid-droid his parents brought from their factory decades ago. Maria became Ueno's companion after his parents' deaths, and now her battery is run down; there are no replacement parts. Meanwhile, Inspector Akagi and her police squad are looking for a serial rapist that may not be human; however, if it's a robot, in harming people it would be disobeying Asimov's rules of robotics. Akagi's inquiry takes her to a droid factory run by Mr. X; he helps by explaining why host-droids, the male equivalent of a maid-droid, don't sell. What will Ueno and Akagi learn about love and the nature of men and women?

Final Flesh (2009) - Vernon Chatman

One of the most ridiculous, absurd, excruciatingly unerotic and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny movies you'll ever see. Is this satire? Is it philosophy? Video art? Unappealing porno? Hour-long schadenfreude trip? It's all of these and so much more.

Final Flesh is a feature film produced in four parts: the script written by Vernon Chatman (PFFFR, Wondershowzen, Xavier:Renegade Angel) was divided up and submitted to four unique film production companies that work exclusively in the field of customized adult content. The companies' shared charter is to produce a film that explores the writer's chosen fetish - and with this in mind, Vernon wrote with demented determination, in order to push the definition of fetish into the realm of the cosmically absurd. Then he sat back to see what his charges would deliver. The resulting film is an epic narrative for our time. 'Final Flesh' is a surreal, apocalyptic 'My Dinner With Andre' - in other words, existential, sublime and ridiculous, featuring unmistakable porno production values and shudderingly unseasoned porno actors and actresses - but no actual sex.