I love haiku so I think that's a great idea. XD
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Originally Posted by Jocasta  Haiku! Yes, now just remind me of the syllable pattern, is it 3,5,3 or 5,7,5? |
5,7,5 ^____^
I'm so happy that they're showing footage at Cannes but ugh, what an embarrassing gimmick for the showing. Taiko drummers are cool but dude, that's not a geisha, that's a drag queen with a terrible wig.
I own classier kimono than that. ¬_____¬
Anyway, here's a better shot of Josh in the poster from the IMGlobal site:
It's actually the same shot of Josh from the photo of him and Gackt that Gackt.com initially posted.
I would wager money that this is not going to be the final product, though. I've never seen a modern movie poster that didn't utilize super-pretty promotional photos taken solely for the purposes of using on products/promo materials of some sort.
Reading the synopsis, though, I wish they'd thought of a catchier title than Bunraku. Besides completely baffling non-Japanese speakers, the movie doesn't really have anything to do with Bunraku besides being a dramatic adventure story.
First of all, I think anything that sounds like it's based on puppets immediately sounds lame. Puppet theater doesn't exactly have a reputation for anything over than juvenile entertainment in the west. In fact, when my husband and I actually went to Japan, one of the things my travel book raved about was Bunraku, and we both completely disregarded it because we thought puppets sounded boring.
It wasn't until much later that I found out how bunraku stories are often the same as the stories in kabuki and noh theatre. Although noh is mostly dramatic and tragic, kabuki is mostly boisterous and even mature or risqué, as high-class prostitutes (oiran or courtesans, which is what most people imagine when they hear the word geisha) are frequently main characters, double suicides were/are a popular theme, and because samurai were involved, sometimes lots of people got killed.
Not only that, bunraku puppets are more like easily-manipulated dolls. Their costumes are exquisitely detailed with elegant clothing made out of the same fabric formal Japanese-style clothing (wafuku) is made out of. It's not like stylized papier-mâché at all. They're like tiny elegant people with ukiyo-e styled faces.
Look at the individual joints of the fingers.
When people see the word puppet, they're never going to imagine anything like that, and "Bunraku = Japanese puppet theatre" isn't going to drive the idea home.
*wipes brow* Sorry that's so long...
P.S. In a lot of Japanese dramas, even in popular present-day anime, end similarly to Shakespeare's best tragedies: most of the main characters die. It's actually a running gag amongst a lot of English-speaking anime fans, illustrated by the phrase "Spoiler alert: everyone dies." This even happens in anime and manga (comics) intended for young adults.
Remember Sailor Moon? At the end of the first season, all the main characters died. The second season is about their reincarnated selves.
If Yoshi in the Bunraku film doesn't die spectacularly and heroically, I'll be shocked beyond belief.