Dolls
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- Movie: Dolls
- Japanese: ドールズ
- Director: Takeshi Kitano
- Producer: Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida
- Writer: Takeshi Kitano
- Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagijima
- Release Date: October 12, 2002
- Runtime: 114 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Takeshi Kitano's 'Dolls crosses between dream like and highly stylized realism, the film opens in the traditional bunraku doll theater and then cross-cuts between three modern love-tragedies - a daring tragic triptych on the nature of unrequited love and abandonment - which span the four seasons and cover much of Japan. While paying homage to the art form, Kitano effectively creates the exact reverse of bunraku: a selection of human emotional disasters as a doll might see them.
Cast
- Miho Kanno - Sawako
- Hidetoshi Nishijima - Matsumoto
- Tatsuya Mihashi - Hiro, the Boss
- Chieko Matsubara - Ryoko, the Woman in the Park
- Kyoko Fukada - Haruna Yamaguchi, the Pop Star
- Tsutomu Takeshige - Nukui, the Fan
- Kayoko Kishimoto - Haruna's Aunt
- Kanji Tsuda - Young Hiro
- Yuuko Daike - Young Ryoko
- Ren Osugi - Haruna's Manager
- Shimadayu Toyotake - Tayu, Puppet Theater Narrator
- Kiyosuke Tsuruzawa - Puppet Theater Shamisen Player
- Minotaro Yoshida - Puppeteer of Umegawa the Courtesan
- Yoshida - Puppeteer of Chubei
- Shogo Shimizu - Matsumoto's Father
- Mayumi Sato
- Mari Hayashida
- Mari Nishio
Trailer
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