Released in 2009, but now available on Netflix, Air Doll is a Japanese movie about an inflatable love doll that comes to life.
Synopsys
A sex doll who is both a sexual sidekick and the beneficiary of her proprietor’s overall love shows some major signs of life and becomes mindful. She starts to experience and explore different avenues regarding life and has such countless inquiries including numerous when she unintentionally strolls into a video store and is recruited by the under-staffed supervisor. She starts to experience and question birth, life and passing. Meanwhile, her proprietor is taking as much time as necessary educating to his doll wandering around the city and having a day to day existence.
A Review from IMDB
A profound, provocative, wonderfully recorded, and very much acted piece of Japanese film. Bae Doona is radiant as an inflatable doll that fosters a spirit and becomes hopelessly enamored. Hirokazu Koreeda wows by and by with his conscious film making, really remarking on friendly issues managing metropolitan life. In spite of the way that it is a piece slow and a piece long, Air Doll is certainly one of the better movies that I’ve seen as of late.
I was at long last ready to watch this film (on DVD) and was dazzled, more so than I naturally suspected I would be. As far as I might be concerned, Air Doll incorporates angles that make it alluring to both film celebrations and business crowds. With the idiosyncratic and fascinating reason of a sex doll that shows signs of life, Air Doll (which is delicately founded on a manga) secures itself as a film which tries to engage current crowds, explicitly Japanese. This doll, “named” Nozomi (played by Korean entertainer Bae Doona), escapes her proprietors house consistently to go to work at a nearby video store. There, she becomes hopelessly enamored with her collaborator, Junichi (played by Arata), and finds out about existence – both the great and the terrible.
Which isolates Air Doll from a portion of Koreeda’s past work is his decision of Mark Lee as cinematographer. He films the city of Tokyo delightfully, with long, exquisite following shots. This is a takeoff from Koreeda’s standard style, of which movies like Nobody Knows despite everything Walking are genuine models (both being pretty un-business). I partook in the appearance’s by a few deeply grounded entertainers, including Odagiri Joe as the doll creator, Susumu Terajima as a cop, and Kimiko Yo as a maturing lady fixated on looking youthful, in spite of the fact that they were most certainly not essential exhibitions. I additionally partook in the music, which moved alongside the speed of the film and successfully added close to home load to choose scenes.
Where I thought the film wavered was long. It was excessively lengthy, which is certainly not a totally horrendous shortcoming much of the time, yet towards the end I felt as though Koreeda had proactively laid out his point and expected to wrap it up. Length is a trademark issue in numerous contemporary Japanese movies. I feel as though this works for some (Love Exposure !?), yet not by and large. One more shortcoming that I might want to specify was the odd, Jdrama-like breaks in the scene where Nozomi is overall over and again depleted of air, then exploded back by Junichi in bed. A similar shot was shown multiple times from various points, which I found superfluous and awkward. Yet, that is simply me being finicky.
Air Doll endeavors to outline to the watcher the dejection that exists in a metropolitan climate like Tokyo. He does this impeccably with the consideration of little side stories; a geeky otaku, a forlorn elderly person, a maturing lady fixated on magnificence, a bulimic lady experiencing misery, and other desolate individuals. These characters just momentarily show up on the screen, giving the impression of the momentary experiences with outsiders in a major city metropolitan climate. Bae Doona’s personality of the doll, Nozomi, is the feature of the film. She plays the person impeccably, frequently consolidating numerous feelings into one and showing all of the particularity of a doll that has as of late found life. It is fascinating and wonderful that Koreeda cast a Korean in the roll of the doll, as it further estranges the person from the remainder of the cast as well as the crowd. It is likewise intriguing to take note of the way that Bae Doona was exceptionally bare during the film (being a sex doll and every one of the), an accomplishment that very few Japanese entertainers would try and set out to do. She has been designated for- – and won many- – grants for best entertainer.