If you mixed up the reels in “Bunraku,” if you showed Reel 6 before Reel 3, it wouldn’t make a lot of difference. The movie is essentially one long, extensively choreographed fight sequence ...

Unlike marionettes of the European tradition, Bunraku puppets are operated by hidden controls within the puppet and rods extending behind the puppet. Puppeteers appear onstage in full view of the ...

Not only does Bunraku take inspiration from other artistic action films from that time, like Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City and Zack Snyder’s 300, but it also brings Woody Harrelson and Demi ...

A photograph of Bunraku shows a stage crowded with men in black, dwarfing a few puppets. But for spectators at a performance, something else happens. The manipulators don’t exactly disappear.

Bunraku — Film Review Guy Moshe's “Bunraku” is like a sumptuous banquet in which every course is dessert -- in other words, too much of a good thing.

Movie review: 'Bunraku'The mixed-influences fight epic “Bunraku” is so desensitizing with its hyper-stylized distractions and movie references it feels more mush-up than mash-up. Writer ...

Discover the art form of Banraku puppetry with the New Victory Theater.

Ron Perlman will play the bad guy in Snoot Entertainment's hybrid martial arts movie "Bunraku," which Guy Moshe is directing from his own script. Japanese actors Gackt and Shun Sugata also have ...

Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances cancelled for months, was ...

This included drawing inspiration from Japan's distinctive Bunraku puppets, which have carved heads and hands with elaborate costumes, co-operated by a trio of puppeteers dressed in black. Wu says ...

Puppeteer Montomi Kiritake is seen during a special Bunraku performance of The White Buddha in Tokyo on May 25, 2022. Half-black Kenta, sent to his grandfather's tiny village after his parents ...