Fresh
The cinematography is colorful and sweeping, the editing and storytelling simple and pure.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Dolls
Three stories of never-ending love.
2002 · 1h 54m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Takeshi Kitano
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.
Director and cast
- Takeshi Kitano Director
- Miho Kanno as Sawako
- Hidetoshi Nishijima as Matsumoto
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Hiro, the Boss
- Chieko Matsubara as Ryoko, the Woman in the Park
- Kyoko Fukada as Haruna Yamaguchi, the Pop Star
- Tsutomu Takeshige as Nukui, the Fan
- Kayoko Kishimoto Cast
- Nao Omori Cast
- Kanji Tsuda Cast
- Yuko Daike Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
72%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's all as passionate, refined, and insistently sad as Bunraku puppetry itself.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A work both rigorously stylized and deeply personal.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
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.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
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