Air Doll

A blow-up doll comes to life and falls in love with a video store clerk in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s haunting meditation on urban alienation.

Lonely Hideo lives in Tokyo with a blow-up sex doll. When she comes to life, she finds she must make her own way in an unfriendly city. Based on Yoshiie Goda’s manga, Kore-eda’s haunting, melancholy film uses its fantastic premise to explore such very real issues as urban alienation, the failure of interpersonal relationships, and broader existential questions about what it means to be human.