Bunraku
United States
2010
118 Min
Color
2.35:1
English, Japanese
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When an enigmatic drifter (Josh Hartnett) and an obsessive Japanese fighter (Gackt) make their way to a town run by cruel crime boss Nicola (Ron Perlman), the strangers combine their martial arts skills to take on the powerful crook in this visually innovative, genre-bending action film. But Nicola’s beautiful associate, Alexandra (Demi Moore), makes their mission even more dangerous. Woody Harrelson co-stars.
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msmichel
25May12
Certainly ambitious but in the end just another brain dead hybrid of superior influences. Much like the 'mashup' applied to music this film weaves in elements of various genre and visual style unsuccessful in finding its own voice. McKidd quite good here with Hartnett more than serviceable but pretty much everyone else is cast adrift. Dialogue often hokey and cliched and even the action seems overly contained. Miss.
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Mugino
9Apr12
The motivation to (re-)invent a new visual style is admirable but originality needs to apply to the story as well. In trying to be different, Moshe just ended up making more of the same old, same old.
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By Twitchfilm.com on November 10, 2011
[Congratulations to our six winners, they have been notified and their prize be be going out shortly! Thanks again to ARC Entertainment for their participation!]The fine people at ARC Entertinament and
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By Twitchfilm.com on November 4, 2011
Wildly ambitious and visually inventive, Guy Moshe’s Bunraku plays like the bastard child of Seijun Suzuki and the Wachowski Brothers with a dose of A Clockwork Orange, a dash of classic movie musical
See Why You Don't Mess With Gackt in BUNRAKU
By Twitchfilm.com on November 4, 2011
International Japanese rock/pop-star Gackt is more than just your average pretty boy. In his first English speaking role from Guy Moshe’s action fantasy Bunraku, hes an unstoppable Samurai who kick a whole
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By Twitchfilm.com on November 4, 2011
Imagine, if you will, that legendary Japanese maverick Seijun Suzuki had directed A Clockwork Orange and jammed it full of martial arts action. I like to think that that’s the sort of fever dream that
BUNRAKU Review
By Twitchfilm.com on November 4, 2011
[With Guy Moshe’s Bunraku hitting VOD in the US today we re-visit our previous review from the film’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere.]Wildly ambitious and visually inventive, Guy Moshe’s
BUNRAKU Blu-ray Review
By Twitchfilm.com on November 4, 2011
An old tale is told in a visually bold manner in Guy Moshe’s Bunraku. Revenge is always a good starting point for any story, and in this case, it helps the odds as two men, a drifter played by Josh……
Giveaway! Win 1 Of 6 Signed BUNRAKU Posters!
By Twitchfilm.com on November 4, 2011
The fine people at ARC Entertinament and XLRator Media have provided Twitch readers with the opportunity to win one of six signed one sheets from Guy Moshe’s neo-noir/western/action/samurai film, Bunraku
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