To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. [48] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film one out of five stars, saying, "It should surprise no one that visually quirky, graphic-novelish, pulp-noir action flicks rarely come through the sausage machine intact". Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2012. Last, but not least, I must mention the fighting, as there's a lot of it. To take down the city's most powerful crime lord Nicola the Woodcutter, But first they'll have to get help from the Bartender at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, and then fight their way through Nicola's henchman. ", "Demi Moore, Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson partied in a Bucharest club", "The Mumbai Film Festival has just become bigger", "Mumbai Film Festival Screening Schedule", "The 23rd TIFF, Gackt's Hollywood debut film "Bunraku" to be screened as a Special Program! It's a film that, I don't know how to stick it into a genre, but I would say it's more a film like Sin City than anything else. With Nicola's reign brought to an end and Yoshi recovering his clan's medallion, the heroes part ways, hoping to meet each other again. 2, the right-hand man of Nicola and a deadly assassin. It's so different than anything I've done. The first drafts of the screenplay were largely inspired by Westerns and martial artsmovies, of which Moshe is a huge fan. Very film noir in nature, the constant narration and background music becomes tiresome. Moshe was asked in a 2007 interview on the subject of his future projects. [2], Bunraku premiered as an official selection of the Midnight Madness section at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. As the Bartender rescues Momoko, he sees his long-lost love Alexandra, but she disappears amidst the debris of the burning brothel. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I play the main killer of the movie who's hunting down Hartnett's character under the instruction of Ron Perlman's character, Nicola. Yoshi wants to fulfill his dying father's wish by recovering a medallion that was stolen from their village. In a 2008 interview, Hartnett, who was instrumental in getting the film Sin City made, compared the look of Bunraku to Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, in that it will play out (or at least appear to play out) in one long, unedited take. The movie looks like such a remarkable crazy quilt of themes and inspirations that you can't help but wish that writer and director Guy Moshe put half as much effort into his screenplay". 2 slays Yoshi's uncle and kidnaps his cousin Momoko to send her to Nicola's brothel. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. "[9] Moshe was asked in a 2007 interview on the subject of his future projects. Hartnett stated "I'm going to Romania to shoot this film called Bunraku...All the cast isn't set yet, but it's going to be a lot of really interesting actors, in this weird kind of papier-mâché world...I've been trying to do as much artistic fare as I can and things that are compelling to watch as well...It's a story of revenge...My character is called 'The Drifter', and he comes into this world that doesn't look like anything like you've ever seen before...[The script] has a lot of fight sequences in it, but it's more about these crazy characters...Like my character, he's a gypsy and he's coming into town and he's got something to prove and no one really knows what he's about. [12] In a 2008 interview, Calder said. [26], Filming for Bunraku began on April 17, 2008 on a budget of $25 million and continued over the course of 12 weeks at the MediaPro Studios in the town of Buftea in Romania. If I am gonna spend that kind of time pouring my blood and tears into it, then I wanna make sure I learn something on the way. It's very allegorical – a mixture of a samurai film and a western in a virtual origami universe where everything is made of folding paper, and there's a lot of martial arts in it...I thought Bunraku was interesting enough to be in.
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