Hinokio Inter Galactic Love (2005) japanese

HINOKIO is not a movie about robots. It is a story of the heart, of using a remotely controlled robot that can interface with the real world to restore the relationships that had become broken, to build bonds between a boy and a girl, a boy and his father.
Satoru, a heartbroken boy who had withdrawn into his room, who uses a remotely controlled robot called HINOKIO as a next-generation communication tool that provides him with a window on the world. Using that robot ‘tool’, Satoru is able to make progress by taking his first cautious, fearful steps out into the outside world… steps taken from within his ‘digital cocoon’. Still, he does go to school, find fellowship and through an encounter with a girl, is able to reconnect and feel once again the sensation of warm human touch.

Info
Movie: Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
Japanese: ＨＩＮＯＫＩＯ　ヒノキオ
Director: Takahiko Akiyama
Writer: Takahiko Akiyama, Masumi Suetani, Shoji Yonemura
Release Date: July 9, 2005
Runtime: 111 min.
Distributor: Shochiku
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Ending Theme: Yui - Tomorrow's Way
Cast
Masatoshi Nakamura - Kaoru Iwamoto
Kanata Hongo - Satoru Iwamoto
Mikako Tabe - Jun Kudo
Maki Horikita - Eriko Akishima
Ryoko Kobayashi - Sumire Takasaka
Yuta Murakami - Jouichi Hosono
Ryo Kato - Kenta Hirai
Sachie Hara - Natsuko Fubuki
Riho Makise - Yuko Sakagami
Mieko Harada - Sayuri Iwamoto
Yuki Murakami
Ryo Sato
Shiro Go