Dolls

Japan 2002, 113 minutes
Dir. Takeshi Kitano
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Topics: Arthouse, Puppetry.

Feat. Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi

Aroview: Beautiful to behold with its spectacular Japanese vistas, but unfocused in content, dir. Takeshi stumbles with an art film that feels stranded somewhere between melodrama and satire.

Bookended by striking sequences of Bunraku puppet theatre, the centrepiece is decorated by puppet-like actors who dramatize the story of a man who leaves his girl for another woman only to return to her and find she's gone mad...