Air Doll (2009)

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Director:

Hirokazu Koreeda

Writers:

Yoshiie Goda (manga), Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)

Stars:

Doona Bae, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Doona Bae	...	Nozomi
Arata Iura	...	Junichi (as Arata)
Itsuji Itao	...	Hideo
Joe Odagiri	...	Air Doll Maker
Sumiko Fuji	...	Widow
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sei Andô
Tasuku Emoto	...	Peep-tom Student
Mari Hayashida
Mari Hoshino	...	Apple Woman
Ryô Iwamatsu	...	Owner of Video Rental Shop
Tomomi Maruyama	...	Moe's father
Miu Naraki	...	Moe
Jyonmyon Pe
Masaya Takahashi	...	Ex-substitute Teacher
Susumu Terajima	...	Policeman

Storyline

A sex doll who is both a sexual companion and the recipient of her owner's all-around affection comes to life and becomes self aware. She begins to experience and experiment with life and has so many questions including many when she coincidentally walks into a video store and is hired by the shorthanded manager. She begins to experience and query birth, life and death. In the meantime, her owner is taking his time cluing in to his doll roaming around the city and having a life.

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Plot Keywords:

looking upskirt | woman wears a micro miniskirt | dutch wife | sex scene | woman wears a microskirt | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the movie store where Nozomi (Doona Bae) works, The Matrix (1999) directed by The Wachowskis can be seen among other DVDs. Doona Bae has worked with The Wachowskis three times since: Cloud Atlas (2012), Sense8 (2015 - ?), and Jupiter Ascending (2015).

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Quotes

Nozomi: It seems life is constructed in a way that no one can fulfill it alone.
Nozomi: Just as it's not enough for flowers to have pistils and stamens, an insect or a breeze must introduce a pistil to a stamen...
Nozomi: Life contains its own absence, which only an other can fulfill...
Nozomi: It seems the world is the summation of others and yet, we neither know nor are told that we will fulfill each other...
Nozomi: We lead our scattered lives, perfectly unaware of each other...
Nozomi: Or at times, allowed to find the other's presence ...
[...]

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Connections

References Stand by Me (1986)

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [France] Official site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

26 September 2009 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Air Doll

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,208,769

Company Credits

Production Co:

Engine Film, Bandai Visual Company, TV Man Union

Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min 116 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1