When you go to see any movie, particularly a genre picture, you are required to make a handshake deal with the film regarding the world it’s trying to establish. If the picture can successfully ...

The traditional theatrical art of bunraku combines chanting, shamisen music, and puppets for a distinctive aesthetic experience. Despite having experienced surges of popularity, it is now struggling ...

Japan Society is delighted to present two new exhibitions, Bunraku Backstage and Acky Bright: Studio Infinity, on view in New York City this fall. Public programs exploring the contemporary and ...

The curtain rises, the lights shine bright and the performance begins! In this magical Japanese puppet theater, the spirits of legendary warriors come back to life to recreate ancient battles in a ...

After watching the trailer for The Bunraku, I’m more than a little confused. Its visual style conjures imagery of Dick Tracy and Kung Fu Hustle, but it’s as if these films took place in the world ...

A colorful oneri procession of bunraku puppets delighted onlookers before the first-ever barrier-free bunraku performances presented as part of the Nippon Bunraku project. Narration-displaying tablet ...

Ron Perlman will play the bad guy in Snoot Entertainment's hybrid martial arts movie "Bunraku." By Borys Kit, The Associated Press Ron Perlman will play the bad guy in Snoot Entertainment’s hybrid ...

A cult film in search of cultists, “Bunraku” features spaghetti-western heroes, samurai warriors, “Sin City” style imagery, Japanese puppets and Demi Moore. And blood. Lots and lots of blood. The film ...

Bunraku is a traditional performance art in which the narrator (tayu), shamisen player and puppeteers combine their mastery — cultivated over decades of training — to breathe life into otherwise ...

Guy Moshe's “Bunraku” is like a sumptuous banquet in which every course is dessert -- in other words, too much of a good thing. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press Guy Moshe’s “Bunraku” is like a ...