Romance Doll

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Romance Doll

2020

2h 3m

Romance

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5 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A man's secret profession as a love doll designer clashes with his wife's deeper, darker secret.

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Maggie Lee

Variety

07/15/2020

Although its underlying attitudes about female sexuality might be problematic for female and feminist viewers, its suggestive subject matter (handled without offensive kinkiness) will set many an imaginative mind sprinting.

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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke

Psychocinematography

01/09/2021

Yu Aoi and Issey Takahashi do not evade their responsibility and succeed in delivering one of the most moving relational metamorphoses of recent years.

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James Marsh

South China Morning Post

07/28/2020

2.5/5

Although [the film's climax] is presented as a grand romantic gesture, the reality is decidedly more creepy.

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Jonathon Wilson

Ready Steady Cut

07/24/2020

2.5/5

Here, the presence of a sex doll is oddly sex-less, instead a cautionary tale of artisanal obsession that damages human connection. The problem with this novel premise is that the film takes far too long to do anything truly interesting with it.

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Mark Schilling

Japan Times

01/23/2020

4/5

[Yuki] Tanada, who wrote the script, uses her offbeat premise to examine fundamental human issues with insights sharp and compassionate, specific and poetic.

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georgan g

11/03/2020

A different kind of love story that's sweet & sad.

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Synopsis

A man's secret profession as a love doll designer clashes with his wife's deeper, darker secret.

Director: Yuki Tanada
Producer: Yasushi Minatoya, Yoshihiro Nagata
Screenwriter: Yuki Tanada
Production Co: U-Next, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Happinet Pictures, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)
Genre: Romance
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 25, 2020
Runtime: 2h 3m

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