bunraku in film

[Bernardi-Buralli]

Yup, I think the play is "Nozakimura"--that's what is indicated in the
script. (specifically, "Kyusaku no ba") The play is by Chikamatsu Hanji,
first staged at the Takemotoza in 1780. Donald Kurihara has an interesting
and detailed analysis of the theater sequence in his book on Mizoguchi,
"Patterns of Time."  Isn't there also a bunraku sequence in "The Life of
Oharu"? In the sequence where she's a concubine supposed to bear a male
heir?

--Joanne B.

> From: "Jonathan M. Hall" <jmhall at uchicago.edu>
> Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:19:32 -0700
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: bunraku in film
> 
> 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
>> 
>