Dolls
Three stories of never-ending love.
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Produced by TV Tokyo, Bandai Visual
A melancholic, allegorical meditation on love's constraints and the puppet-like helplessness of human desire across interconnected stories.
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.
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Like Dolls, But Less Popular
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