Rei (Shinobu Terajima) is a single woman pretty much detached from
reality who lives on her own, hardly has any friends and whose preferred
form of contact is coincidently touching people in the supermarket.
That is, until she meets trucker Okabe (Nao Omori), who coincidently
touches her, and suddenly she has the urge to follow him. Soon enough, he
invites her into his truck, soon enough they have sex, and soon enough,
she has invited herself to join him on his next trip.
During the trip they learn more about one another, about his past as
drugrunner and pimp for the yakuza, about her eating disorder, about
CB-radio, about his wife, his kid, and the woman stalking him as well as
her life as a freelance journalist and the man waiting for her at her
home. In the end though it turns out that at least half of the stories
they have told to each other are not true, but nevertheless, they have
found not only a sexual partner but also a soulmate in each other, and
when they in the end part - exactly in front of the supermarket they first
met only a few days ago - both of their lives seem to be richer.
Actually, there is not happening all that much in this film, a road
movie that mainly leads through Japan's industrial regions - and yet it's
a very effective love story that refrains from being cheesy or
superficial, instead takes a subtle, at times even abstract approach to
its subject that makes the movie - that mainly consists of two people
talking with a few sex-scenes thrown in - quite interesting and enjoyable.
By the way, no vibrator (the actual thing) is featured in this film
(sorry, voyeurs), the title refers to the truck's vibrating movements as
well as Rei's vibrating heart and vibrating cellphone.
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