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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.
The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjū Ten no Amijima or Shinjūten no Amijima 心中天の網島) is a domestic play by Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon.Originally written for the bunraku puppet theatre, it was adapted into kabuki shortly after its premiere on 3 January 1721.
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 ...
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.
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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.
In 2008, Gackt was filming in Romania for his first international film debut, Bunraku, which was released in 2010. [199] The next year he appeared as a prisoner Takegami Teijiro on death row in the second episode of the TV series, Mr. Brain, [200] and Joji Yuki in the film Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker. [105]