Dolls (2004)
75 %
Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 27 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 10, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Takeshi Kitano continues alternating between introspective drama and violent films with DOLLS, which he wrote, directed, and edited in between the bloody gangster picture BROTHER (2000) and the samurai update THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI. Beginning with an excerpt from Bunraku puppet... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Kyoko Fukada
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenwriter: Takeshi Kitano
Producer: Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida
Composer: Joe Hisaishi
Screenwriter: Takeshi Kitano
Producer: Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida
Composer: Joe Hisaishi
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11/08/07
The stories have a fateful, lonely feel, like one of Wong Kar-wai's missed connections. Yet their tragic timelessness, and the lovely, aching pace at which they are told, bring them to a level of extraordinary beauty.
11/08/07
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01/26/06
...this anthology of tragic tales is never dull and always a feast for the eyes.
05/28/05
The cinematography is colorful and sweeping, the editing and storytelling simple and pure.
03/11/05
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There aren't many movies more visually beautiful than Takeshi Kitano's odd but moving "Dolls."
03/06/05
It's all as passionate, refined, and insistently sad as Bunraku puppetry itself.
02/11/05
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Dolls isn't a film for everybody, especially the impatient, but Kitano does succeed, I think, in drawing us into his tempo and his world, and slowing us down into the sadness of his characters.
02/04/05
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Devoted fans of Kitano will want to see Dolls. Others may be put off by the dirgelike pace (Kitano takes full credit for the editing) and a ghastly, mood-destroying pop-music number performed by Fukada.
01/21/05
Fascinating bits of behavior are scattered throughout these stories, but it cannot be said that the characters are fleshed out beyond their sentimental symbolism.
01/21/05
The movie's pace is appropriate to its mood, which is crisp, melancholy and gently cruel.
01/20/05
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Though Kitano has called Dolls 'a puppet show with human characters,' there's nothing stiff or unreal about its intensity of feeling.
01/20/05
If occasional pretentious doodling like this is what it takes to keep Kitano's copious creative juices flowing, so be it. The Great Ones are allowed the occasional snoozer.
01/20/05
Since Dolls is told in a somnambulist manner, the stories become languid and staid.
01/14/05
Kitano succeeds on the strength of his images, but it's a very near thing.
01/07/05
Weighed down by heavy-handed sentiment and largely free of [Kitano's] trademark dark humor, Dolls is still a compelling work from a genuine talent.
12/26/04
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