Takeshi KITANO 北野武
Dolls
Nippon Cinema ª
Three tragic love stories connected by the theme of the Japanese Bunraku puppet theatre: An ex-couple, a pop-starlet and her fan, an old Yakuza and his early love. KITANO´s film swerves away from his earlier works in an aesthetically radical way.
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Japan, France 2002
113 minutes
Production
Office Kitano
World sales
Celluloid Dreams
Distribution
Rapid Eye Movies
Cast
Miho KANNO, Hidetoshi NISHIJIMA, Tatsuya MIHASHI, Chieko MATSUBARA, Kyoko FUKADA, Tsutomu TAKESHIGE
About Takeshi KITANO
北野武
Takeshi KITANO, born in Tokyo in 1947, is a film director, actor, author, television and radio host, painter, and comedian. His directing debut VIOLENT COP (1989) was a huge hit on the international scene. His follow-up feature HANA-BI (1997) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while ZATOICHI (2003 / NC ’04) earned him a Silver Lion. The historical drama KUBI (2023 / NC ’24) is based on KITANO’s own novel of the same name and had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.