Inflatable doll (Kuki ningyo, Air Doll)

Inflatable doll (Kuki ningyo, Air Doll) - forty-year man Hideo (Itsuyi Itao) lives alone with an inflatable doll, which he gave the name Nozomi (Du Bai). The doll was his girlfriend: he puts it, talking to her over dinner and slept with her. However, Hideo does not suspect that the doll came to life. And, after leaving work Hideo, Nozomi worn every day walking around the city, like a child knowing the world outside their apartment. When Nozomi meets Junichi (Arata), who works at the local video store, she falls in love with him and takes a part-time job in a shop. She learns about the world through films, which looks with Junichi, but her happiness with him is interrupted by an unexpected turn of events.

Japan 2009
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Du Bai, Arata, Itsuyi Itao and others.
Producers: Takeo Hisamatsu, Etsuhiro Kato Kazumi Kavashiro
Operator: Pin Bing Lee
Writers: Yoshii Year Hirokazu Koreeda
Composer: World's End Girlfriend
Premiere: May 14, 2009
Budget: - Posters for the film






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The film's director Hirokazu Koreeda said it was a sad and sensitive story about the loss of innocence, loneliness of urban life, and the question of what it means to be human.