Vibrator (2003) | Japan

Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Screenwriter: Arai Haruhiko
Cinematographer: Kazyhiro Suzuki
Editor: Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast
Shinobu Terashima
Nao Ohmori
Taguchi Tomoroo
Takayanagi Eriko

Awards
Best Actor, Tokyo International Film Festival / Honorable Mentions, 2003 Mannheim-Heilderberg International Filmfest / Best Actress, 2003 Nantes Three Continents Festival / Special Jury Prize / Best Actress, Singapore

Festival Screenings
Venice, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Oslo, Mannheim, Nantes, Kaohsiung, Rotterdam, Florida, Deauville, Cinema Novo, Las Palmas, East Lansing, NAT, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jeonju, Barcelona, Brooklyn, Dallas, Los Angeles

Vibrator's protagonist Rei is a tender creature whose mind is composed pf multiple voices interrupting and influencing her interaction with the world. In this subterranean world, even the vibration of her mobile phone barely pulls her out of her reverie, until, shopping for wine at a store, she sees the alluring bleach blonde haired Okabe strides in and feels a chord drawing her out of her shell. Wordlessly, she follows Okabe out and sees that he is a truck-driver and hops on, transiting momentarily to his world of transience, trucker stories and tender intimacy on the highways across Japan's islands.