"Air Doll" is so exquisitely packaged and so tenderly directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda that the urban fairytale about an inflatable sex doll come to life gradually unfurls as an achingly beautiful ...
"Air Doll" is a Japanese film about a blow-up sex doll that comes to life, Pinocchio-like, but it isn't for the raincoat crowd. It is instead a meditation on what it means to be human and how isolated ...
Hirokazu Kore-eda has become the poster boy for highbrow Japanese cinema very quickly. There's no disputing he's a good filmmaker. He's just not the genius (or savior) he's held up to be - and I ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Middle-aged service worker Hideo (Itsuji Itao) shares his tiny apartment with an inflatable sex doll (Bae Doona, “Sense8”) in ...
Based on the manga The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl, about a lifesize blow-up doll that stops being “a cheap substitute for sexual satisfaction” and becomes a real person, Air Doll is a philosophical ...
T.S. Eliot surely wasn't thinking of vinyl women when he wrote The Hollow Men, his lament about spiritual emptiness and the loss of hope. But an inflatable sex doll proves a fine metaphor for ...
Hirokazu Kore-Eda is one of the world’s most thoughtful directors; his previous film (Still Walking) was a subtle introspective masterwork that, with incredible artistry, plumbed the quiet depths of ...
Drama. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Bae Doona, Itsuji Itao, Arata, Joe Odagiri. In Japanese with English subtitles. Not rated. 116 minutes. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas ...
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Japanese helmer Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s ongoing interest in love, loss and souls in limbo is stretched way too thin in “Air Doll,” a beautifully lensed (by Taiwanese ace Mark Lee) and charmingly played ...