a BJD in a MOVIE!

I just watched a k-drama [The Master's Sun]. On episode 5, there is a couple of bjds and I'm a little curious who they are.

 

Hi! Do you guys know of any BJD-related films or documentaries out there? If so, have you seen them? I've seen some documentaries featuring doll collectors but never came across any showing BJD collectors. Have you?

 

Doll Master is one film I could think of. They featured BJD's for sure.

 

Oooh, Doll Master! Always bring that one up to illustrate the difference between a "normal" person and a doll person. There's that wall of dolls in that house - like, a wall full of BJDs. Now, a "normal" person will probably go "OMG, how creepy!" at that wall. A doll person more likely than not will go "Oooooh, I want this one and this one and this one and holy cow, is that a limited full-set XXX by YYY over there?"

 

@Khell, too funny about the difference between normal people and doll people. I loved the wall of dolls, also really loved the life-sized ones that moved! I want a creepy toilet doll in my bathroom.

The movie Baby Blues was mentioned above. To me the doll looked like it had standard BJD joints, but it was hard to identify the sculpt because the eyes had been opened up, a LOT, which distorted the face. A pretty good movie, though, and it was an interesting idea to use the doll like a spin-the-bottle game.

 

I've never seen one in a movie, but there is an otome game based around BJD's and they come to life, thus causing you to date them xDD
I think any movie with any sort of bjd in it would be horror, though, due to the general public.​

 

I think I might have seen a BJD in the last scene in "Wishing Stairs". Not sure, though, I'd have to check. (Yes, another horror movie and nope, got nothing at all to do with BJDs, that's why I found it kinda odd.)

 

There's a Korean comedy movie called Attack on the Pinup Boys, starring members of Super Junior. One of them is given a BJD that looks like him, and he carries it around with him for a while. That's the only non-horror I can think of.

 

Not from a movie, but interesting bit from a video game. Shadow Hearts 2's playable character Gepetto is supposed to have a marionette/puppet named Cornelia, but despite what the text of the game says, looking at her without her dresses, it's obvious she's a ball-jointed doll controlled via magic. (All of her jointing is internal and follow BJD jointing, not marionette jointing; never really shown to actually have strings attached; clothes are easily changeable; mouth is fixed instead of moveable.)

 

Cornelia is -definitely- a BJD! She has no strings, and her joints are pretty obvious ball and socket ones! Even her fashions match popular doll styles! :P

 

In the anime "Another" there is a sick girl in a hospital and her cousin brings her bjds to cheer her up!

 

I did a quick search and didn't see anyone mention "Nameless - the one thing you must recall". It's a otome game by cheritz and it features Crobidoll. You literally date your dolls and Crobidoll has released or still has the dolls that star in the game.

You can buy it on steam.



Red nameless version on Crobidoll

 

Totally forgot about that.

 

Not exactly a movie, but in a trailer for the game NieR: Automata, ball-jointed dolls are heavily featured. Not for the faint of heart though! And I don't mean in the sense of gore or horror, I mean that the video is literally about, and shows, dolls being smashed and destroyed via what appears to be assembly-line style factory equipment. The plot of the game, I believe, has something to do with a war between androids, and the equipment in the video is run from a robot in a control center whose objective is to "destroy all dolls". There is also a poster or sign shown briefly on one of the factory walls, proclaiming "Do not love dolls. Dolls have no souls."
You get the idea.

I want to rescue all the dolls, but I also find it strangely cathartic. The music is beautiful. I was able to watch with some detachment, enjoying the art of the thing, but still... I know dolls aren't technically alive but I still feel bad seeing them "die". They even reach out as if for help, the poor dears. Strung dolls really are lifelike, aren't they?

The video is here, for those interested:


Also, imagine how much all those expensive dollies must have cost whoever made this...

(I kind of want to make a doll based off one or more of the ones that get destroyed in the video, but as some of them are based on actual characters in the game I don't want to copy their design, but I would still love to pretend I "rescued" one of the doomed dollies... or kind of make my own backstory for them. Does that make sense? Am I just weird? Who knows?)

 

NOPE NOPE NOPE, I could barely stomach that, and I've seen some awful real gore videos...
Is it a bad psychological sign that I'm more distressed by dolls being destroyed than by actual gore? YIKES
Seriously though, I'm boutta go hug all my dolls now...

 

That goes along with the whole "people murdered in movies? Meh. Dogs? OH HELLLNAW" thing - so I say normal. :haha

 

I love the game and actually came back to dolls after a 2 year hiatus because of the boss fight in the amusement park. It's a long story, but the boss has android bodies strapped to her large mechanical dress and they look like BJDs. I started thinking about BJDs and just ended up wanting to collect again.

(Nier is psychologically and philosophically intense!!! By far the best game I've played in years.)

 

Super Junior Korean movie has 1 member owning a BJD which dressed like him. He is famous in school and even to the neighbouring schools. He carries his BJD almost everywhere he goes.

And a Korean drama (I can't remember the name of the drama) a lady owns a BJD fashion shop and has a few dolls sitting around the shop. The drama has many scenes in the shop so I enjoyed looking at the dolls~

*edit: in regards to the drama, it might not be a shop. It might be a studio/office for the BJD fashion shop.. because i dont remember seeing much display like how a shop should look and I did not see any customers in there.. you know, its always the shop owner n the the drama characters chatting on the couch..

 

I just got a craving for watching aaall the bjd horror movies

 

I know there's threads with this theme but I can't find them
I started a KDrama yesterday called Bachelor Vegetable Shop (Ji Chang Wook stars, enough said). The show about 7 years old, & the first episodes are set in 2000. Lo & behold, one of the middle school girls carries around a Volks 4 sister BJD! And her mother fully established herself as a fool when she told her daughter she was too old for dolls! For THAT doll!!! I got indignant
I've seen BJDs a couple times in KDramas (one creepy little scene in Master's Sun where a shaman used BJDs to symbolize a wedding between two ghosts). This is the first time I've seen one where it's not been seen as creepy. Wondered if anyone else remembers seeing BJDs in films or TV where they WEREN'T meant to be creepy?