東京體育電影大獎最佳女主角
日本電影金像獎最佳女主角提名
日本電影專業大獎最佳女演員
電影旬報年度十大佳片
坎城影展一種注目

東京不起眼的老舊公寓，是專屬於秀雄與充氣娃娃小望的天地，秀雄每晚抱著小望洗澡、發洩性慾，共度寂寥長夜。某日早晨，小望的「心」悄悄萌芽，她滿懷好奇步出公寓，在影音出租店遇見令她心儀的店員純一。白天，小望和純一一起工作，看著陌生顧客來來去去，夜裡，她回到公寓，繼續扮演秀雄的性玩具。她設法掩藏自己盛滿空氣的軀體，卻不慎在純一面前劃破脆弱的表皮。（取自金馬影展官網）

Director Kore-eda Hirokazu, known for such films as Nobody Knows and Still Walking, adapts Gouda Yoshiie's short manga "The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl" into this fantasy-romance. The relations between the ultra-real doll with a heart and her lonely companions is visualized with an intertwining sense of buoyancy and eroticism. Starring in her second Japanese film since Linda Linda Linda is accomplished Korean actress Bae Doona. Taiwanese cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bin beautifully captures the subtler characteristics of Tokyo's urban scenery. Middle-aged Hideo (Itao Itsuji) lives in an old apartment with his blow-up doll Nozomi (Bae). One morning, she suddenly grows a heart. While Hideo is out at work Nozomi cheerfully dresses up in a French maid's outfit and enjoys walks through the neighbourhood with the curiosity of a child. She ends up at a local video shop where Junichi (Arata) works and falls in love at first sight. Nozomi herself begins working at the shop out of love and discovers the transient nature of human emotions, but also feels the same emptiness in her heart that Junichi does.