bunraku in film

[Mark Nornes]

I may not be remembering this correctly, but I think Awa no musume uses 
ningyo joryuri.

I was just thinking about this film because I watched Kuroki's Ryoma 
Ansatsu last night. The scene where the woman narrowly escapes by 
jumping out of a second story window into a riotous crowd chanting Ee 
ja nai ka reminded me of a kind of mirror image of the great ending of 
Awa no musume, where the bad guys get swept up in and trampled by a mob 
dancing the crazy awa odori.

Markus



On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 08:26  AM, Chuck Stephens wrote:

> 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