Regal Cinemas Under Fire for ‘Bait and Switch’ Cyberpunk Movie Release

I’ve been following the reaction to the new anime film, Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl, and it’s been pretty intense. A lot of fans are really disappointed with what they saw. The film, directed by Yasuomi Umetsu and animated by Studio Shaft, had a very limited run in U.S. theaters on November 11th and 13th. It’s set in the future, 2099 to be exact, where advanced medical androids called “Somadea” are common, but also used for crime. The government responded by creating a bounty hunter system. The story centers around Ubu Kamigori, a bounty hunter who gets kidnapped by her enemy, Mr. Elegance. He then does something shocking – he transfers her brain into a robotic body that looks like her when she was fourteen, holds the power switch, and forces her to work for him. The film follows her struggle to break free and get her revenge.








