Thank you to our Co-producer patron Chris Marlton for selecting this week's topic!

This 2002 Japanese art film is slow, meticulously shot, and has wonderful, ornate costumes. We discuss how it was influenced by a form of traditional puppetry but should be approached more like a meditative painting.

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• Dolls

Additional Resources:

• Finding Love in Loss and Tragedy
• Dolls
• Dolls by Takeshi Kitano (Review)
• The cult Japanese movies outfitted by Yohji Yamamoto
• Inviolable Attachments: Takeshi Kitano's Dolls
• Dolls (2002)
• Redmond, S. (2013). The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano : Flowering Blood. London: WallFlower Press.
• Sherman Hollar. (2012). Kitano Takeshi. Britannica Biographies, 1.