“Vibrator” by renowned Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki is a film that begins much like the Japanese film Last-Tango-in-Paris-on-the-road. But it doesn’t end that way.

It begins as the story of Rei Hayakawaa (played by Shinobu Terajima), a neurotic 31-year-old woman who suffers from alienation and an inability to establish warm and genuine contacts with others. She wants to touch people, but she fears that it could lead to a physical altercation, an assault, and perhaps worse.

While shopping for a bottle of wine one night at a convenience store, she meets Takatoshi (played by Nao Omori), a dyed-blonde trucker with earrings who openly responds to her covert flirtation. production

As he leaves the store, she follows him across the parking lot to his truck. It’s snowing and they’re both ready for some sex, adventure and maybe more. That’s the kind of Plan A that’s quickly replaced by an unexpected Plan B. And without that change, you wouldn’t have a quality movie anyway, but just a third-rate soft-porn music video.

They park the four-ton trailer on a side road and have sex inside the cab until morning. Early the next day, they take off together to deliver Takatoshi’s merchandise to faraway destinations.

Throughout the film, Rei oscillates between sex and intimacy. The more she knows about Takatoshi’s checkered past, the closer she feels to him because at least he seems to be a genuine person who doesn’t hide anything and, moreover, treats her kindly despite her alleged past experience with a “stalker” girl. “.