
User Score
5 votes
“Corazón marchito”
"Withered heart" is a simple story with complex characters, love and hate, friendship and shared loneliness, and disagreements. Where the characters face themselves and their daily circumstances, sometimes comical, droll, sometimes a little dramatic. They seek not knowing what they want, or not knowing what they will find. And when you find ... Is it worth risking a wonderful lifelong friendship, a relationship that ... knowing both, might not work?
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.