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Dolls(ドールズ)

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Japan · 2002
1h 54m
Director Takeshi Kitano
Starring Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara
Genre Drama, Romance

An exploration of three love stories, bound together by their mutual heartache, tragedies, and vices. At the forefront is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, two lovers engaged to be married broken apart by Matsumoto's parents. But it soon becomes evident that they cannot be kept apart after Sawako has a breakdown and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

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70

Variety by David Rooney

Despite an excessively meandering final act, the drama's three intertwined stories have a cumulative impact, their affecting sadness matched by meticulously composed visual poetry.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Whether this measured exercise in romantic melancholy moves you to tears or bores you to them is probably a matter of personal susceptibility to the sting of bitter regret for love lost.

70

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

With some staggeringly beautiful photography of cherry blossoms and scarlet autumn leaves, Dolls is so enthralled with its own cinematography that it can't bear to edit itself, and during the autumn and winter segments of the bound beggars' journey, it almost reaches a standstill.

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