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Bunraku is particularly noted for lovers' suicide plays. The story of the forty-seven rōnin is also famous in both bunraku and kabuki. Bunraku is an author's theater, as opposed to kabuki, which is a performer's theater. In bunraku, prior to the performance, the chanter holds up the text and bows before it, promising to follow it faithfully ...
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, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, and Gackt and follows a young drifter in his quest for revenge.
Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛 敏郎, Mayuzumi Toshirō, Japanese pronunciation: [majɯꜜzɯmi toɕiɾoː]; 20 February 1929 – 10 April 1997) was a Japanese composer. He was known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques.
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This included drawing inspiration from Japan’s distinctive Bunraku puppets, which have carved heads and hands with elaborate costumes, co-operated by a trio of puppeteers dressed in black.
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門, real name Sugimori Nobumori, 杉森 信盛, 1653 – 6 January 1725) was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki.
Shochiku grew quickly in the early years, expanding its business to many other Japanese live theatrical styles, including Noh and Bunraku, and established a near monopoly due to its ownership of theaters, as well as kabuki and shimpa drama troupes. [2] The company began making films in 1920, about a decade after its main rival Nikkatsu.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast; GettyIf you were traveling through the verdant Ethiopian highlands, you might make a stop at the Abba Gärima monastery about three miles east ...