Bunraku

2010
15
2h 4m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

21K

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Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Josh Hartnett, and Gackt in Bunraku (2010)

In a world without guns, a mysterious drifter (Josh Hartnett) walks into a strange town terrorized by the ruthless Nicola (Ron Perlman) and his army of thugs, headed by nine deadly assassins. The drifter is forced to trust a young samurai (Gackt) looking to restore his family's honor, and the local bartender (Woody Harrelson) who has been secretly awaiting a dream team to help overthrow NicolaÂ’s tyrannical regime.

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Dark Comedy Martial Arts Action Drama Thriller

The story of a a young man who has spent his life searching for revenge only to find himself up against a bigger challenge than he originally bargained for.The story of a a young man who has spent his life searching for revenge only to find himself up against a bigger challenge than he originally bargained for.The story of a a young man who has spent his life searching for revenge only to find himself up against a bigger challenge than he originally bargained for.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

21K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
The title of the film is based on a four-hundred-year-old form of Japanese puppet theater, a style of storytelling that uses four-foot-tall puppets with highly detailed heads, each operated by several puppeteers who blend into the background wearing black robes and hoods.

Goofs
When shooting the burning arrow, we see Yoshi's finger wrapped around it. This would not work in reality, as not only would the arrow go entirely it's own way without any control, but it would also cause friction burns, and probably cuts, on the finger. That is a mistake one makes only once.

Quotes
The Narrator: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, will forever make better grammatical balance than turning the other cheek.

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Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: Review of 2011 (2012)

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Putting on the Blitz
Written by Ben Watkins
Performed by Ben Watkins
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Featured review

7/10

Dr. Frankenstein's Action/Art Film Project

This stylized action film can best be described as an orgy of the following films: part Sin City, part Batman (Adam West era), part Dick Tracy, part The Quick and the Dead, and part Enter the Dragon. Squirt some Cirque du Soleil in there and the resulting love child of all these films is "Bunraku". That's really all I can say. Watch it and tell me if I'm wrong. There are parts of this film that are extraordinary, namely the animation, while other segments (or appendages?) are atrocious. It all makes sense in a mad scientist kind of way, where this creature of a film was cooked up in Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory School of Film, Dance, and Animation. It's ludicrous, but very entertaining. I give it 7 full test-tubes of film DNA out of 10!