Johnny Mnemonic

This Canadian sci-fi action feature is set in the grim, heavily computerized future. It is the tale of Johnny, a young man with a computer chip implanted in his head. The chip contains a wealth of top-secret information that he must smuggle from Japan to the US. He is pursued by an evil yakuza who wants the information for his own mega-corporation. Johnny evades him and makes it to the Free City of Newark where he is to be downloaded. He must hurry because if the information isn't removed soon, his head will explode. While in Newark, he is chased by a loin-cloth wearing villain who wants his head, which he will keep alive until the information has been retrieved. In the end, Johnny's information is successfully downloaded amid spectacular computer-generated graphics.