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Vaiburêta

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  • 1h 35m
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6.9/10
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Vaiburêta (2003)
  • Drama
(Japanese with English subtitles) After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in the midst of an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-c... Read all(Japanese with English subtitles) After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in the midst of an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual self-discovery. Ryuichi Hiroki (I Am an S&M Writer, To... Read all(Japanese with English subtitles) After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in the midst of an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual self-discovery. Ryuichi Hiroki (I Am an S&M Writer, Tokyo Trash Baby) directs this critically acclaimed road movie based on the novel by Mari Ak... Read all
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6.9/10
913
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  • Director
    • Ryûichi Hiroki
  • Writers
    • Mari Akasaka(novel)
    • Haruhiko Arai(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Shinobu Terajima
    • Nao Ômori
    • Riho Makise
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  • Director
    • Ryûichi Hiroki
  • Writers
    • Mari Akasaka(novel)
    • Haruhiko Arai(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Shinobu Terajima
    • Nao Ômori
    • Riho Makise
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    • 13User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 24 wins & 3 nominations

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    Shinobu Terajima
    Shinobu Terajima
    • Rei Hayakawaas Rei Hayakawa
    Nao Ômori
    Nao Ômori
    • Takatoshias Takatoshi
    Riho Makise
    Jun Murakami
    Jun Murakami
    Eugene Nomura
    Eugene Nomura
    Miki Sakajô
    Tomorô Taguchi
    Tomorô Taguchi
    • Policemanas Policeman
    Eriko Takayanagi
    Masahiro Toda
    Masahiro Toda
    • Director
      • Ryûichi Hiroki
    • Writers
      • Mari Akasaka(novel)
      • Haruhiko Arai(screenplay)
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      Considered by film scholar Donald Richie to be the best Japanese film of its year.
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      written & performed by Keito Blow

      courtesy of Mastersix Foundation / SonyMusic Records

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    Enjoyable road picture
    Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. We first meet her in a convenience store where she is buying too much alcohol and not enough food. At the magazine rack she pauses to contemplate the happiness of the glamour girls on the glossies for which she writes. Only later do we realize that this is self-reflection. A chance encounter with truck driving Takatoshi, leads to a two day romp of sex, friendship and introspection. It's unclear if what happens to her is the product of her writer self imagining it all as a magazine serial (hence the inter-titles and voice of the narrator).

    The relationship has a certain healing sweetness that comes out in simple daily pleasures of Japanese life, like a bath or a bowl of hot soba on a cold winter's day. It's a little fluffy, but this seems to be an intentional point of the story: the musings of a glamour writer reaching out to the young readers who struggle in silence with the pain brought on by the ultra-thin, ultra-beautiful ideal put forward by the magazines for which she writes.

    In the end, it's a road-buddy picture that gives Western viewers a taste of the complex Japanese landscape that is both brilliant in its natural beauty and frightening in its industrialization.
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    • Apr 25, 2004

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    • Release date
      • March 4, 2005 (South Korea)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Vibrator
    • Production companies
      • Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K.
      • Cine Quanon
      • Eisei Gekijo
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      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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