Dolls (2002 film)

Dolls , Druzu? is a 2002 Japanese film written, edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. A highly stylized art film, Dolls is part of Kitanos noncrime film oeuvre, like 1991s A Scene at the Sea, and unlike most of his other films, he does not act in it. The film has been praised for its cinematography Katsumi Yanagishima and features costumes by Yohji Yamamoto.

These stories do have some incidental visual crossover with each other in the film, but are mostly separate. The first story is the one the film centers on. The film leads into it by opening with a performance of Bunraku theatre, and closes with a shot of dolls from the same. The performance is that of The Courier for Hell by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, and it alludes to themes that reappear later in the film. Because the rest of the film itself as Kitano himself has said can be treated as Bunraku in film form, the film is quite symbolic. In some cases, it is not clear whether a particular scene is meant to be taken literally. The film is also not in strict chronological order, but there is a strong visual emphasis on the changing of the seasons and the bonds of love over the progression of time Matsumoto and Sawako spend most of the film physically connected by a red rope.The film and each of its vignettes revolve closely around the theme of death. It was Kitanos intent to show death as neither good nor bad but a relative event. In an interview, Kitano stated, The reason why modern Japanese and Westerners loathe the notion of death so much is beyond me. There really is no reason to loathe death, adding, How you perceive this film can considerably differ depending on the position where you stand. ........

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