Teatr bunraku w filmie "Lalki" Takeshiego Kitano
Japanese Bunraku Theatre in Takeshi Kitano's film "Dolls"

Summary/Abstract: Takeshi Kitano’s film "Dolls" ("Dōruzu", 2002) draws on several levels on the themes of Japanese Bunraku puppet theatre. The starting point of the analysis of bunraku themes in the films of the Japanese artist is the play "The Courier for Hell" by the greatest Bunraku dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu. In addition to fragments of the performance of this play and elements of its plot, the director also used some formal elements of the puppet theatre, such as for example the construction of the characters, the look and the costumes of the actors or michiyuki (being on the road) as a basis of the whole narrative structure of the film. The resulting film has an incredible hermetic character, immersed in the specific aesthetics of puppet theatre for adults, which in Japan is gradually falling into oblivion.

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