{"id":134524,"date":"2014-07-09T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=134524"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:38:10","slug":"reading-list-the-many-styles-of-bunraku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=134524","title":{"rendered":"Reading List: The Many Styles of BUNRAKU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"BUNRAKU_1024x768pix\"<\/a>A mysterious drifter and an ardent Japanese warrior both arrive in a town terrorized by criminals. Guided by The Bartender at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two join forces to bring down the corrupt reign of Nicola and his lady Alexandra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remember Ethan Chandler (from this post<\/a> on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful<\/em>)? Well. Josh Hartnett plays another mysterious loner in Bunraku<\/a><\/strong>, a movie that merges different visual storytelling (and fighting) styles to great effect. The following set of reading lists includes: Background information on Bunraku theater; various fighting forms; art as visual narrative (with bonus sound effects); tropes, get your tropes here!; and a brief list of other films you will no doubt want to watch but after Bunraku<\/em>, of course.<\/p>\n

I. Bunraku: Japan’s Puppet Theater<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what is Bunraku? An explanation, because they said it better than we ever could:<\/p>\n

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“Bunraku’s world renown stems not only from its high-quality artistic technique, but also from the high level of its joruri<\/em> music and the unique nature of manipulating the puppets\u2015each puppet requires three puppeteers to bring it to life. Throughout the world there are a number of types of puppet theatre, and they all treat with simple stories such as myths and legends. There is no other art that requires a whole day for its long, serious drama to unfold. Furthermore, in most of the world’s puppet theatres, great pains have been taken to hide the manipulation of the puppeteers from the audience. There are several methods of achieving this: suspending the puppet from strings attached to the ceiling, as with marionettes; placing a hand within the puppet and moving it with the fingers, as with guignol<\/em> puppets; and casting shadows upon a screen, as with the wayan kulit<\/em> shadow puppets. But in Bunraku, the manipulators appear openly, in full view of the audience.” [Japan Arts Council<\/strong>;<\/span> to learn more about the history and art of Bunraku visit their website<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n