Air Doll (空気人形)

  • 空気人形 (Air Doll)

6/30/24 (Sun)

Koreeda’s 2009 flick, an oddity in his ouevre, is on the surface about the life and death of a blowup sex doll. But it proves much more than that. (Air Doll is a literal translation of the Japanese title. Trivia: non-inflatable plastic sex dolls in Japan are known as Dutch wives, which my American friend never tired of mentioning to his Dutch wife.)

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