bunraku in film

[Jonathan M. Hall]

And weren't we all just discussing Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy?  Unless my
memory fails me, there is an extended bunraku scene in the middle.

Jonathan

> From: Chuck Stephens <cougar71 at well.com>
> Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:26:03 -0700
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: bunraku in film
> 
> I've been writing something on Kitano's DOLLS, and have been trying
> to think of other films which have used the actual puppets of the
> bunraku theater, and not just the plays written for it by Chikamatsu.
> Shinoda's DOUBLE SUICIDE is the only one that comes immediately to
> mind. (And am I even recalling that correctly, or do the puppeteers
> in that film handle only actual humans? I don't have a copy of the
> film with me here to check.)
> Can anyone here think of other films that do use actual bunraku
> puppets right off the top your heads?
> 
> many thanks
> Chuck
>