advancedfilesizeSynopsis: Master filmmaker Takeshi Kitano returns behind the camera for the first time since his indifferently received English-language effort Brother (2000) with this operatic tale of lost love. Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif -- specifically, the kind practiced in Bunraku doll theater performances -- opening each section of his film with a story provided by the puppets and their masters, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Sawako (Miho Kanno), 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. He initially agrees, causing the unstable Sawako to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. When he leaves his new bride at the altar to save Sawako, however, he realizes that she's so incapable of caring for herself that she needs to be tied to him with a red rope. Inextricably bound, the two wander through Japan, encountering others along the way who have similarly overlooked love for other, more fleeting pleasures: fame, power, money.
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
Reviews: Roger Ebert (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050203/REVIEWS/50127003/1023) | KFCC (http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/drama/dolls/dolls.html) | Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10002833-dolls/) | IMDb (external reviews) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330229/externalreviews)
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330229/
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 (5,243 votes)
Tomatometer: 75%
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330229/awards
Written and Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Cast:
Miho Kanno .... Sawako
Hidetoshi Nishijima .... Matsumoto
Tatsuya Mihashi .... Hiro
Chieko Matsubara .... Woman in the Park
Kyoko Fukada .... Haruna
Tsutomu Takeshige .... Nukui
| Title: | Dolls (2002) |
| Source: | DVD Retail / R1, NTSC / Palm Pictures - Bandai |
| Size: | 1.562.234.880 bytes (1/3 DVDR) |
| Runtime: | 01:54:04 |
| Format: | AVI - OpenDML (AVI v2.0) |
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| Video Codec: | XviD (xvid_encraw 1.2) |
| Video Bitrate: | 1371 kbps |
| Resolution: | 704x384 |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.833 |
| Frame rate: | 23.976 fps |
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| Audio Codec: | AC3 (5.1 channels) |
| Audio Bitrate: | 448 kbps |
| Sampling Rate: | 48 KHz |
| Interleave: | 96 ms (2.3 v.frames), preload=96
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| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles (SRT): | English |
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| SA: | B-VOP, No Qpel, No GMC, No P-Bit |
| CQM: | EQM V3LR |
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Subtítulos en español de
Kaoru adaptados al ripeo:
http://www.opensubtitles.com/download/sub/3280995