Metrograph

Adapted from a manga by Yoshiie Gōda, Kore-eda’s bittersweet modern-day fable of urban anomie and objectification—a little-seen outlier in the Japanese master’s filmography, featuring fleet mobile camerawork and a glossy pop art color palette courtesy of Lee—sets its scene in Tokyo, where a life-sized blow-up doll (The Host’s Bae Doo-na), after years of silently serving as the lone companion of her hermit-like middle-aged owner, one day mysteriously springs to life, setting out to see the outside world for the first time and discovering romance with video store clerk Arata Iura… as well as the dangers of real-world love.

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