Bunraku (2010) on Netflix
After a global conflict, guns are outlawed and blades rule. Nicola the Woodcutter rules the territory with nine killers. A drifter and a samurai named Yoshi arrive, each seeking revenge.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.1/1021,124 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes18%
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Plot summary
A long war left the world without firearms, so people fight with blades or their bare fists. Nicola the Woodcutter rules the land east of the Atlantic as its most powerful figure, with nine elite assassins known as the Killers and Killer No. 2 as his right hand. Alexandra, Nicola's unwilling lover, remains in his circle. One night a drifter enters the Horseless Horseman Saloon and asks the Bartender for whisky and a hand of cards, learning that the only place offering both, the Russian Roulette, is Nicola's and admits rich players only. Then Yoshi, a samurai, arrives in the same bar, come a long way to recover a medallion stolen from his village, as his dying father asked.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bunraku (2010)
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- Guy Moshe sold his Bunraku screenplay to a production company and then had to buy it back out of their hands once it became clear that they were never going to film it.
- Producer Ram Bergman took Bunraku to Romania because the whole film was green-screen: they had to build thirty-odd sets and hold the stages for five months. Romania came in 10 to 20 per cent cheaper than Prague, and apart from the heads of department the crew was Romanian.
- Guy Moshe noticed the Japanese singer Gackt in NHK's year-long 2007 drama Furin Kazan, where he played the warlord Uesugi Kenshin and won praise for both the acting and the tie-in single, and then went to Japan in person to talk him into the film.
- Alex McDowell, production designer on Minority Report and Fight Club, inverted the usual order on Bunraku: the camera movement dictated the set rather than the set design limiting the action, so a wall was provided only where a character's kick needed one.
