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bunraku
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n. A traditional form of Japanese puppetry.
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, also known as Ningyō jōruri , is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in 1684. Three kinds of performers take part in a bunraku performance: the Ningyōtsukai or Ningyōzukai ( puppeteers), the Tayū ( chanters) and shamisen musicians. Occasionally other instruments such as taiko drums will be used.
The most accurate term for the traditional puppet theater in Japan is . The combination of chanting and shamisen playing is called jōruri and the Japanese word for puppet (or dolls, generally) is ningyō. It is used in many plays.
Bunraku puppetry has been a documented traditional activity for Japanese people for hundreds of years.
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 -tall puppets with highly detailed heads, each operated by several puppeteers who blend into the background wearing black robes and hoods.
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.
Bunraku premiered as an official selection of the Midnight Madness section at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. A limited theatrical release was slated for September 2011.
Usage examples of "bunraku".
In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.
That night in our apartment, I kept expecting to see two teams of Bunraku masters standing behind John and me, pulling levers in our heads, sculpting every move we made.
I found myself arguing with some faceless audience in my mind--the Bunraku puppeteers, I suppose--insisting that, with all the precautions I had taken, I was more likely to be attacked by killer bees than to get pregnant.
The Bunraku puppeteers seemed to be crowding around me, somber and patient, but relentless.
Of course, I had been aware of the Bunraku puppeteers for months--but I had never quite let go of my disbelief in them.
John about the Bunraku puppeteers, about the strange things I had experienced during the last five months.
I like to think that the homeless man may have been acting under the influence of the Bunraku puppeteers.
From my new perspective, the one I had picked up while expecting Adam, I hoped the Bunraku puppeteers had a plan for how this might be done.
My physical well-being almost made up for my greatly diminished sensitivity to the Bunraku puppeteers.
After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.
Traditional theater was removed from preperformance censorship in mid-1947, beginning with Bunraku puppet theater in May, followed by Kabuki in June, and Noh in September.