Bunraku is a 2010 martial-arts action film written and directed by Guy Moshe based on a story by Boaz Davidson. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore...

competing as a martial artist, Corbell has consulted on the films I Am Number Four and Bunraku, and the video game UFC Undisputed 2010. One of his ju jitsu...

feature-length theatrical films produced and released by the Filipino motion picture company Viva Films since its foundation in 1981. All films listed are theatrical...

accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama. Modern Japanese theatre includes shingeki...

Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe (known since 2011 as "Bunraku Bay Puppet Theater") is an American puppet troupe that performs the traditional Japanese puppet...

Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), the story has been told in kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, television shows and other media. With ten different...

seventeenth-century tragedian Chikamatsu Monzaemon for the bunraku puppet theater. It would later be adapted as a film in 1969 under the title Double Suicide in English...

direct-to-DVD films and international films which received negative reviews, such as the martial arts action film Bunraku (2010), the comedy film Girl Walks...

Amijima) is a 1969 Japanese historical drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is based on the 1721 bunraku (traditional puppet theatre) play The Love...

reappear later in the film. Because the rest of the film itself (as Kitano himself has said) can be treated as Bunraku in film form, the film is quite symbolic...

Shinjū (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), was originally written for bunraku. Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, eventually becoming popular...

period, 1600s or 1700s. Shinjya mask. (Honnnari) Hannya also appears in Bunraku, a puppet theater that began in the Edo period. The Japan Arts Council...

dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. The Encyclopædia Britannica has written...

States. In 2017, the film "Kaiju Bunraku" debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, featuring the puppetry of Holman's Bunraku Bay Puppet Theater. Holman has...

Suicides at Sonezaki (曽根崎心中, Soneyaki shinju) is a 1981 near life-size Bunraku puppet film based on Chikamatsu's sewamono The Love Suicides at Sonezaki. Director...

The story was popularised in numerous plays, including in the genres of bunraku and kabuki. Because of the censorship laws of the shogunate in the Genroku...

wanted it to "look like a moving painting" with character design drawn from bunraku puppets. Inspiration was taken from the character Zatoichi, the "Man with...

starred as a bartender and mentor in the futuristic western martial arts film Bunraku. On the November 12, 2009, episode of the Comedy Central show The Colbert...

that had long legs and walked on all fours. ADI also built a full-scale Bunraku-style puppet of this design which was operated on-set as an in-camera effect...

The original concept of this form of puppetry can be traced to Bunraku puppetry. Bunraku puppets are a type of wood-carved puppet originally made to stand...

she graduated from the I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film. After graduation, Manolache worked at Teatrul Mic in Bucharest. Manolache...

films were influenced by traditional theater – for example, kabuki and bunraku. At the dawn of the 20th century, theaters in Japan hired benshi, storytellers...

greatest expression in Double Suicide, in which actors are manipulated like Bunraku puppets. He also was interested in sports, directing a documentary on the...

love, and was loosely based on a bunraku play. Following the disappointing response to the film Brother and the film Dolls, Kitano received a sequence...

tours and I was checking out traditional Japanese theater – Kabuki, Noh, Bunraku – and I was wondering what to wear on our upcoming tour. A fashion designer...

(2001) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) Kaiju Bunraku (2017) Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018) Godzilla: King of the Monsters...

Chikamatsu, is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was adapted from Monzaemon Chikamatsu's 1715 bunraku play Daikyōji mukashi goyomi....

contemporary setting plays of bunraku and kabuki Cinema of Japan Shomin-geki Jidai-geki Thornton, S. A. (2015-03-26). The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis...

well as a pair of strong performances" from Duchovny and Moore. In Bunraku (2010), a film Moore described as a "big action adventure," she played a courtesan...

(Hana-Ori) in 1968. Heavily influence by the traditional aesthetics of Nō, Bunraku-style puppetry and kabuki, since the '70s his haunting puppet animations...