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| Directors |
Ryuichi Hiroki [Bio]
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| Producers |
Aoshima Takeshi, Morishige Akira
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| Country |
Japan
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| Languages |
Japanese |
| Description |
In a thin year for Japanese mainstream cinema, Hiroki's superb adaptation of Akasaka Mari's feminist novel stands out. Rei (stage actress Terashima Shinobu) is a self-hating, middle-class professional with eating disorders and a liquor habit. One night, while out buying red wine, she falls in with a trucker, Okabe Takatoshi (Omori Nao—probably Japan’s most in-demand actor since playing the title role in Ichi the Killer (2001)), and finds herself living out a road movie (or should that be sex movie?) in the front seat of his eight-tonne truck.
Rei's consciousness—expressed through voice-overs, intertitles, and aural memories—is at the core of the film, and Okabe's very physical presence provides the stimulus that transforms it. He's 28, with dyed blonde hair and a ring in his left nipple; he also has (he says) a glamorously criminal past and a wife, a daughter, and a stalker. It's not long before they're exploring each other sexually, usually in the back of the cab, and Rei starts wondering how someone so rough can handle her so gently. Magnificently shot by Suzuki Kazuhiro, and acted with absolute conviction by both stars, Vibrator finds the world in a grain of sand. |
| Length |
95 mins |
| Source |
Gold View |
| Other festivals and awards |
Venice 2003, Toronto 2003, Vancouver 2003, London 2003, Tokyo 2003 (Best Actress), Rotterdam 2004, Sydney 2004 |
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