The new issue of Screening the Past is out with a long essay by Des O'Rawe on Kitano's Dolls: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/21/takeshi-kitano-dolls.html By the way, I caught the new Kitano film a few weeks ago. All i can say is that the last line of the film was supposed to be a joke, but it wasn't. 'nuff said. Markus