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Dolls

2002 · 114 min

A slow, visually exquisite meditation on love and loss, told through three haunting stories that feel like moving puppetry.

Tagline
Three stories of never-ending love.
Overview
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • grief
  • obsession
  • fate
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism5
Romance8
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Takeshi Kitano
Written by
Takeshi Kitano
Starring
Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Kyoko Fukada, Tsutomu Takeshige, Kayoko Kishimoto, Nao Omori
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
114 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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