Air Doll

[Opens Feb. 4 in theaters and available on various VOD platforms.] Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning, creative, imaginative, well-acted, confusing, unpredictable, 113-minute, 2009 film based on the Japanese manga The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl and punctuated by beautiful cinematography and unfortunate plot holes in which an inflatable sex doll (Bae Doona), who was created by a doll manufacturer (Joe Odagiri), develops a heart and miraculously comes to life after her Japanese owner waiter (Itsuji Itao) goes to work, and when she leaves his apartment to explore Tokyo and ends up taking a job at a video store, she develops romantic feelings for the store clerk (Arata Iura) while learning about life and the joy and pain of being alive.
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