Romance Doll movie review: Japanese cinema’s love for sex dolls continues with this Netflix drama – it starts off well but loses its way

2.5/5 starsIn Japanese cinema, sex dolls are surprisingly prolific. Whether employed as crutches for social recluses, as in Torso (2009) and Body Temperature (2011), or as magical avatars through which to examine urban alienation, like in Hirokazu Koreeda’s Air Doll (2009), they are almost exclusively inanimate companions for the emotionally isolated.In Yuki Tanada’s Romance Doll, now streaming on Netflix, sex doll owners barely feature at all. Instead, the film marries a pair of evergreen…

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