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List Price: $24.99Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.50 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0660200310622
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 08, 2005
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 40170
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Inspired by the everlasting emotions expressed in Japanese Bunraku doll theatre, Dolls weaves three stories delicately intertwined by the beauty of sadness. Bound by a long red cord, a young couple wanders in search of something they have tragically forgotten. An aging yakuza mysteriously returns to the park where he used to meet his long-past girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan
Amazon.com:
Dolls is a film of extraordinary beauty and tenderness from a filmmaker chiefly associated with grave mayhem and deadpan humor. That is to say, this is not one more Takeshi Kitano movie focused on stoical cops or gangsters. The title refers most directly, but not exclusively, to the theatrical tradition of Bunraku, enacted by half-life-size dolls and their visible but shrouded onstage manipulators. Such a performance--a drama of doomed lovers--occupies the first five minutes of the film, striking a keynote that resonates as flesh-and-blood characters take up the action.
The film-proper is dominated by the all-but-wordless odyssey of a susceptible yuppie and the jilted fiancée driven mad by his desertion to marry the boss's daughter. Bound by a blood-red cord, they move hypnotically through a landscape variously urban and natural, stylized only by the breathtaking purity of light, angle, color, and formal movement imposed by Kitano's compositional eye and rigorous, fragmentary editing. Along the way we also pick up the story of an elderly gangster, haunted by memories of the lover he deserted three decades earlier and generations of "brothers" for whose deaths he was, in the accepted order of things, responsible. Another strand is added to the imagistic weave via a doll-like pop singer and a groupie blinded by devotion to her.
This is a film in which character, morality, metaphysics, and destiny are all expressed through visual rhyme and startling adjustments of perspective. It sounds abstract--and it is--but it's also heartbreaking and thrilling to behold. Kitano isn't in it, but as an artist he's all over it. His finest film, and for all its exoticism, his most accessible. --Richard T. Jameson
Average Rating: 
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This is a very different way to make a movie from T. Kitano. No violent scenes, few or none blood. But is deep and powerful. To me this movie make me to cry for the lost of the most beloved a true love. The three stories are highly dramatic and have a similar beginning and end without a trace of swords, guns, ammo, or blood as mr Kitano usually does.
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Others have already given a plot synopsis, so I'll avoid that here. Let me simply tell you this: The way the stories are woven together pulls you in, the scenes are absolute eye candy, and the actors and actresses are just phenomenal.
This is a movie that I would list among "Requiem for a Dream" and "House of Sand and Fog" - movies that make your heart ache and mind spin, hardly giving you a moment to catch your breath, and yet somehow also captivating you with a beauty beyond description. ... Read More
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This is a film that haunts. Fantastic cinematography almost overpower the tales of yearning, betrayal and karma. A beautiful score and excellent performances bring it all together.
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I bought this item and before I watched it I tried to explain the plot to a couple people and failed miserably. I began to worry about whether or not this film would be interesting at all. I am a fan of Takeshi Kitano but I heard in so many places that it was very different from his other work.
It started off a little slow, a lot of shots seemed to linger a bit longer than you feel comfortable with. While some people would see this as boring and pointless, I began to realize that this ... Read More
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There is a lot to admire in Takeshi Kitano's canon of work. The diversity alone should earn him an early Lifetime Achievement Award from SOMEBODY for making it clear that Japanese culture is deep and complex rather than silly and purely imitative. Kitano has provided us with humor in his series _Takeshi's Castle_, which was later revitalized (and redubbed) for the amazing MXC - Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Season One, action and more than a little creepiness as the schoolmaster in Battle Royale, touching ... Read More
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