Air Doll

Original title: Kûki ningyô

20092009
UnratedUnrated
2h 5min

Bae Doona in Kûki ningyô (2009)

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

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

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations

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Arata Iura and Bae Doona in Kûki ningyô (2009)

Bae Doona in Kûki ningyô (2009)

Arata Iura and Bae Doona in Kûki ningyô (2009)

I Wish

7.4

Distance

6.8

Hana

6.6

Maborosi

7.5

The Third Murder

6.7

The Third Murder

Still Walking

8.0

After the Storm

7.4

After the Storm

Nobody Knows

8.1

Like Father, Like Son

7.8

Like Father, Like Son

After Life

7.6

Going My Home

7.7

Ishibumi

3.9

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. —aghaemi

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Trivia
The huge watch on the air doll's left wrist always points to the same time: 3 o'clock.

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 disagreeable...
Nozomi: Why is it that the world is constructed so loosely?

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2009 (2009)

Top review

8/10

WOW

She is just so hot.

Super thin, no fat and shows 'skin.'

She was made by the hand of god, which in this case is a maker who has to cater to the whims and desires of men and therefore can sculpt her exactly as he wants.

Just one upgrade needed: the long hair kit for another $100.

I am surprised this film was so cool. This director is usually boring.

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Release date
- September 26, 2009 (Japan)
Country of origin
- Japan
Official sites
- Official site (France)
- Official site (Japan)
Language
- Japanese
Also known as
- 空氣人形
Filming locations
- Tokyo, Japan
Production companies
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Gross worldwide
- $1,208,769

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Runtime
- 2h 5min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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