Air Doll

In the organizer's words:

空気人形 Kûki ningyô

Director: KOREEDA Hirokazu
2009, 116 minutes, OVD, DCP, FSK from 16

A man in his forties returns home from his job as a waiter to his small suburban apartment in Tokyo on a rainy night. He is looking forward to spending the evening with Nozomi, an inflatable doll he bought for little money. He plays married life with her, a little one-sided, but he seems content. He has bought Nozomi nice clothes and chats with her at the table about the day's work. The plastic crackles in bed. One morning, as soon as the master has left the house, the doll starts to move and stomps out into the street. She wants to discover life and eagerly absorbs what she sees and hears along the way. Nozomi, superbly embodied by Korean actress Duna Bae, discovers on her wanderings what makes a person human and, of course, what love is all about.

Text: trigon-film

Film series
Manga on the big screen - Japanese comic adaptations

To accompany the exhibition Manga Hokusai Manga, The Sketchbooks of the Famous Master from the Perspective of Contemporary Japanese Comics, we are continuing a film series with comic adaptations, the first part of which was shown in October. It features two anime and two live-action films.

The two anime were directed by the multi-award-winning Hara Keiichi, who made a name for himself with "Summer Days with Coo"(Kappa no Kuu to natsuyasumi, 2007) and "Colorful"(Karafuru, 2010), among others. In Usui Yoshito's manga series about the rebellious boy Shin-chan, he is responsible for both the adaptation as a TV series and for several feature films.
With "Miss Hokusai"(Sarusuberi - Miss Hokusai), Hara has realized his long-cherished wish to adapt a work by manga author Sugiura Hinako. The anime is dedicated to O-Ei, a daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, who also created manga with great talent.

The two live-action films also demonstrate the immense diversity of the manga genre. An entertaining musical about an unconventional young couple is based on a web comic(Otaku ni koi wa muzukashii), and the drama by master director Koreeda Hirokazu, which is aimed at an adult audience, deals with the existential questions of life in a sensitive way(Kûki ningyô).

Price information:

Admission free