"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘Air Doll’ Film Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda and Bae Doona Take on the Inner Life of a Sentient Sex Toy
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lonely Tokyo man’s blow-up sex doll gets a soul and creates her own exploratory life in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2009 adult fairy ...
"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 ...
Just a whiff of a story, "Air Doll" is aesthetically so exquisitely packaged, and so tenderly directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda that the urban fairytale about an inflatable sex doll come to life gradually ...
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results