Bunraku (文楽) (also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃)) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century...
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Bunraku is a 2010 martial-arts action film written and directed by Guy Moshe based on a story by Boaz Davidson. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore...
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Shinjū (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), was originally written for bunraku. Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, eventually becoming popular...
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geinō). The performing arts are divided into eight categories: Gagaku, Noh, Bunraku, Kabuki, Kumi Odori, Music, Dance, and Drama. The categories are subdivided...
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The National Bunraku Theatre (国立文楽劇場, Kokuritsu Bunraku Gekijō) is a complex consisting of two halls and an exhibition room, located in Chūō-ku, Osaka...
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Theatre of Japan (section Bunraku)
accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama. Modern Japanese theatre includes shingeki...
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Hannya (section Hannya in Bunraku)
period, 1600s or 1700s. Shinjya mask. (Honnnari) Hannya also appears in Bunraku, a puppet theater that began in the Edo period. The Japan Arts Council...
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Genroku culture (section Bunraku)
writers, and many famous bunraku plays, such as Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子), would later be adapted for kabuki. Bunraku also provided a development...
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written by the seventeenth-century tragedian Chikamatsu Monzaemon for the bunraku puppet theater. It would later be adapted as a film in 1969 under the title...
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