bunraku in film

[Mark Nornes]

That's the one. I told you my memory was probably faulty!

Markus




On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 10:24  PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:

>> 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, are you talking about Makino Masahiro's 1941 _Awa no odoriko_?
> Sounds like the same ending, but you list a different title. If it is 
> the
> Makino film (which is a great film, by the way), it features less
> classical bunraku than travelling story tellers who use small puppets. 
> In
> a film which storytelling is itself interrogated, it is a great effect.
>
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