Takeshi Kitano's 'Dolls crosses between dream like and highly stylized realism, the film opens in the traditional bunraku doll theater and then cross-cuts between three modern love-tragedies - a daring tragic triptych on the nature of unrequited love and abandonment - which span the four seasons and cover much of Japan. While paying homage to the art form, Kitano effectively creates the exact reverse of bunraku: a selection of human emotional disasters as a doll might see them.

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  Kanno Miho (Sawako )

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  Nishijima Hidetoshi (Matsumoto )

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  Osugi Ren (Haruna's Manager)

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  Fukada Kyoko (Haruna Yamaguchi, the Pop Star )

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  Otsuka Yoshitaka (Unknown)

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  Matsubara Chieko (Ryoko, the woman in the park)

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  • Overall  8
  • Story  8
  • Acting/Cast  9
  • Music  5
  • Rewatch Value  4

  This movie contains 3 very sad stories with one of them acted as the main story. All of them featured pure love to the extend either it makes the character unconsciously loss sanity, or consciously let go their sanity.
  I don't usually like movies with multiple stories, but this one is just very well blended.
  
  The acting is great, esp Miho Kanno. She's very convincing. The scenery is beautiful, the cinematography is kinda surealist for me (thanks to its doll elements). The use of doll elements is great. If you -like me- found Japanese dolls is eery, you will find the use of it here is eery as well, and that's one of what makes this movie special.
  
  This movie seems contains alot of traditional Japanese culture symbolization, I wish I understand it more.
  
  A note for future watcher: this is a very very slow drama, without much dialogues. Not recommended if you can't stand this type of movie. read more

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