bunraku in film

[Bernardi-Buralli]

Bill's message below reminds me of a film that I don't see mentioned very
often, but which blew me away when I saw it: Gosha Hideo's last film,
"Onna-goroshi abura jigoku," also based on the kabuki/bunraku repertory
play. Has anyone else seen this, or heard or read anything about it? I
believe it was early 1990s? I forget when Gosha died, but I think he was
already very ill with cancer while making this.

Joanne

> From: Bill Thompson <siswt at CUVMC.AIS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
> Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:33:50 -0500 (EST)
> To: KineJapan <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Re: bunraku in film
> 
> 
> Chuck, Joanne, KineJapan,
> 
> 
> Another film of interest--although it is done without puppets--is
> Uchida Tomo's Courier from Hell/Lover's Exile.  The original Chikamatsu
> play was originally written for bunraku, then adapted into kabuki.
> Uchida's work, from the late 1950's, presents some of the
> incidents which were later recounted in the play.  Uchida also
> incorporates Chikamatsu into his film, responding to these events,
> and thus treats the idea of artistic creativity.
> The last part of this work includes footage of a kabuki
> performance of the play itself.  (I haven't seen this one
> in a couple of decades either.)