Vibrator

Adapted from Haruhiko Arai’s novel the film tells a story of a freelance writer Rei who is consumed by her own thoughts and the voices of her mother and a schoolmate she imagines hearing inside her head. She cannot sleep, concentrate and her body is overcome with pain. One night she runs across a truck driver and she joins him on his route in his shaking and vibrating truck. The voices she hears begin to fade away… Vibrator is both a road movie and melodramatic story of a young woman searching for happiness.

Ryuichi Hiroki was born in 1954. From mid 80s he worked as an assistant director to Genji Nakanuti. He debuted in 1982 with an erotic film Catch the Woman Out. He was awarded several international film prizes for the remarkable horror film Sadistic City (1993). Vibrator won the FIPRESCI Prize at Brisbane film festival and many more awards across Asian film festivals together with a Special Mention at Mannheim film festival.