Dolls

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Original title: Dolls
Year: 2002
Running time: 113 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenwriter: Takeshi Kitano
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagishima
Cast: Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Kyôko Fukada, Tsutomu Tageshige
Producer: Bandai Visual, Office Kitano
Genre: Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama. Ensemble Film
Synopsis: DOLLS comprises three touching stories of true love, directed by Takeshi Kitano. The first installment tells the story of a career-driven man who gives up his girlfriend in favour of his job. She attempts suicide and he returns to her, and they roam the country together in search of whatever it is they have lost. The second story also concerns abandonment in favour of success. The man in question returns to the park where they met 30 years later. The last tale in the trilogy is of a disfigured former pop star, reclusive due to her disability, who is visited by her greatest fan, eager to show the extent to which he loves her.

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#120 Best Japanese Movies of all time

Awards: 2002: Venecia Film Festival: Nominated for Golden Lion

Critics' reviews

"[I] isn't a film for everybody (...) 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 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"A work both rigorously stylized and deeply personal (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
"Kitano knows that there's little to be said when pictures can do the talking."

Scott Tobias: AV Club
"Using art and violence as contrast and moral barometer, Kitano is great at examining and breaking down cultural and sexual boundaries (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"

Ed Gonzalez: Slant
"Takeshi Kitano's melancholy allegory is a meditation on the heavy ties that bind, of which love is merely one and not necessarily the strongest."

Stephen Holden: The New York Times

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