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...

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...

traditional Japanese hairdresser specializing in the theatrical arts (kabuki and bunraku) and professional sumo. The tokoyama trade is the result of a slow evolution...

Capcom worked with Ningyo-Joruri Bunraku Theater supervising director Master Kanjuro Kiritake III to direct a bunraku prequel to the game. It was released...

geinō). The performing arts are divided into eight categories: Gagaku, Noh, Bunraku, Kabuki, Kumi Odori, Music, Dance, and Drama. The categories are subdivided...

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...

Shinjū (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), was originally written for bunraku. Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, eventually becoming popular...

accompaniment kyōgen; kabuki, a dance and music theatrical tradition; bunraku, puppetry; and yose, a spoken drama. Modern Japanese theatre includes shingeki...

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...

martial artist, Corbell has consulted on the films I Am Number Four and Bunraku, and the video game UFC Undisputed 2010. One of his ju jitsu demonstrations...

as ceramics, textiles, lacquerware, swords and dolls; performances of bunraku, kabuki, noh, dance, and rakugo; and other practices, the tea ceremony...

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...

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...

The original concept of this form of puppetry can be traced to Bunraku puppetry. Bunraku puppets are a type of wood-carved puppet originally made to stand...

early Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), the story has been told in kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, television shows and other media. With ten...

performing arts and literature such as emakimono, jōruri, noh, kabuki, bunraku, and ukiyo-e. The tachi (Japanese long sword) "Dōjigiri" with which Minamoto...

The story was popularised in numerous plays, including in the genres of bunraku and kabuki. Because of the censorship laws of the shogunate in the Genroku...

culture—as well as a pair of strong performances" from Duchovny and Moore. In Bunraku (2010), a film Moore described as a "big action adventure," she played...

The Love Suicides at Sonezaki as a jōruri play, both bunraku and kabuki versions exist. Bunraku uses puppets and Kabuki uses actors known as onnagata...

one of the most active groups performing traditional ningyō jōruri or Bunraku puppetry in Japan, and has been officially designated an Intangible Cultural...

dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. The Encyclopædia Britannica has written...

August (2008), and I Come with the Rain (2009). Subsequent credits include Bunraku (2010), Oh Lucy! (2017), Target Number One (2020), Wrath of Man (2021)...

the actor moves around as if a puppet. This in turn is taken from the bunraku play. Herostratus, another classical youth arsonist. 世界恩人巡礼大写真館 (in Japanese)...

adapted from bunraku, Kanadehon Chūshingura and Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura. In addition, during climaxes of nihon-buyō plays adapted from bunraku (Yagura no...

the train station Osaka is home to the National Bunraku Theater, where traditional puppet plays, bunraku, are performed. At Osaka Shochiku-za, close to...

element accompanying the movement. They often depict legendary heroes. Bunraku is a form of theatrical puppet theatre which rivalled and inspired the...

as a bartender and mentor in the futuristic western martial arts film Bunraku. On the November 12, 2009, episode of the Comedy Central show The Colbert...

remained popular in the street theater until the 1930s. Puppets of the Bunraku theater and ukiyo-e prints are considered ancestors of characters of most...

puppetry commonly known as Bunraku or ningyō jōruri, making his stage debut in 1994 with the 170-year-old Tonda Traditional Bunraku Puppet Troupe in Shiga...

Also early versions of the bunraku play Shinoda zuma ("The Shinoda wife"). Odanaka & Iwai 2020, p. 109: "in the early bunraku version (The Shinoda Wife)...