Bunraku | |
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Directed by | Guy Moshe |
Screenplay by | Guy Moshe |
Story by | Boaz Davidson |
Produced by | Keith Calder Ram Bergman Nava Levin Jessica Wu |
Starring | Josh Hartnett Woody Harrelson Gackt Kevin McKidd Ron Perlman Demi Moore |
Narrated by | Mike Patton |
Cinematography | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
Edited by | Zach Staenberg Glenn Garland |
Music by | Terence Blanchard |
Production companies | Snoot Entertainment Bergman Productions Picturesque Films |
Distributed by | ARC Entertainment XLrator Media |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Japanese |
Budget | $25 million |
Bunraku is a 2010 martial-arts action film written and directed by Guy Moshe based on a story by Boaz Davidson. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, and Gackt and follows a young drifter in his quest for revenge.
The title Bunraku is derived from a 400-year-old form of Japanese puppet theater, a style of storytelling that uses 4-foot (1.2 m)-tall puppets with highly detailed heads, each operated by several puppeteers who blend into the background wearing black robes and hoods.[1] The classic tale is re-imagined in a world that mixes skewed reality with shadow-play fantasy. Its themes draw heavily on samurai and Western films.[2]
Bunraku premiered as an official selection of the Midnight Madness section at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in Canada,[3][4] and a limited theatrical release was slated for September 2011.[5][6]
The movie received negative reviews, although unanimously praised for visual style and ideas, its biggest criticism was poor screenplay which negatively influenced characterization, being considered as a bad movie "worth watching for those who know what they are getting into".[7]
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