Air Doll
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Hideo, a lonely middle-aged man, embodies all the stereotypes of the Japanese fetishists. He is in a relationship with an inflatable sex doll named Nozomi: he dresses her, talks to her, fixes her makeup, cooks for her, and, of course, loves her with all his heart and body, rhyming his life with "Lars and the Real Girl." But as soon as he leaves for work, Nozomi comes to life. The "girl" quickly finds a job at a local video rental shop in Tokyo and starts getting to know the metropolis through the stories of the people she meets there, all the while searching for an answer to a haunting question – what are human feelings?
Koreeda flawlessly captures the sense of disorientation in the face of Tokyo's rapid modernization. In his most cinephilic and melancholic film, the master of children's cinema focuses on family bonds and tells the story of getting to know Tokyo as if through the eyes of a child. The doll that comes to life becomes a keen observer of reality, amazed by the state of human relationships and fascinated by her interactions with the inhabitants of the metropolis. "Air Doll" is an attempt to paint a portrait of Japan a decade after the economic crisis and just before Fukushima – at a time when the air that breathed life into the Japanese nation seemed to be leaking out.
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Łukasz Mańkowski
Hirokazu Koreeda
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