Bunraku is the story about the meet-up of three strangers: the mysterious Drifter, the Bartender and Yoshi, a young samurai searching a chance to revenge for his dead father. Together they aim to bring down the reign of Nicola, a powerful crime boss who is ruling the town with his gangs of nine deadly assassins.
16 July 1981, Tennessee, USA
17 February 1955, Yamanashi, Japan
2 August 1951, Bailesti, Romania
23 July 1961, Midland, Texas, USA
13 April 1950, New York City, New York, USA
7 March 1978, Bucharest, Romania
30 June 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 March 1968, Bucharest, Romania
29 July 1972, Vaslui, Romania
4 August 1948, Sibiu, Romania
21 July 1978, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
22 October 1976, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
14 June 1973, Hunedoara, Romania
2 July 1969, Brasov, Romania
22 October 1981, Vantaa, Finland
February 11, 2013
Bunraku is everything from blatant ripoff to experimental cinema to a graphic novel gone wild with its bad acting and predictable ending.September 30, 2011
Extremely cool-looking in the manner of "Sin City,'' but clumsily staged, slackly acted and mind-numbingly dull...September 29, 2011
A potpourri of genres that ends up a morass of clichés.September 30, 2011
It should surprise no one that visually quirky, graphic-novelish, pulp-noir action flicks rarely come through the sausage machine intact.September 29, 2011
"Bunraku" is so desensitizing with its hyper-stylized distractions and movie references it feels more mush-up than mash-up.September 13, 2011
Midnight movie fans as well as graphic artists will appreciate the style of the picture, if not the substance... mainly because there's not much substance to be found at all.September 05, 2011
What do Hartnett and Geckt want with Perlman? Mostly, I think, they're just looking for excuses to get into elaborate kung fu fights.September 15, 2011
An overstylized, overwritten, overinflated jumble that doesn't have a clue when to quit. It's definitely colorful and eager to please, but a little of this convoluted mess goes a long way.September 25, 2011
A mega mash-up in the vein of Sucker Punch, Bunraku jumbles together elements with a self-consciousness that's as turgid as its story proper.September 21, 2010
Completely pointless and utterly unwatchable...September 30, 2011
It's not difficult to see why this movie - which reportedly cost $25 million - has been looking for a release date since it was finished more than three years ago.September 29, 2011
One long, extensively choreographed fight sequence in which "mortal" blows are delivered so often, and with so little lasting impact, that a brawl just becomes a brawl becomes a brawl.