Monday, May 07, 2007

Japanese Puppet Animation

Japanese puppetry is a very high form of art as the puppeteers are able to control the puppets, which are equipped with many sophisticated mechanisms, in such a way that it looked almost like a real human being. Decades ago, there was period of time where Japanese puppetry was integrated into popular entertainment, and that was when Japanese puppetry animation was borned. This form of puppetry animation is unlike other forms of puppet animation from China or Taiwan, whereby it's purely entertainment, the Japanese puppetry animation is just as artistic.

Below here are two puppetry films by famous puppetry master Kihachiro, titled "Ghost" and "Flower Picking". "Ghost" speaks of a popular urban legend that when elderly people were on the verge of death, they'd transform into ghosts and try to eat up their children. For "Flower Picking", a little monk was lured into letting in 2 strangers into his garden with alcohol, who were trying to pluck the beautiful flowers in the garden.




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