Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A traditional Japanese dramatic art form featuring large puppets operated by onstage puppeteers with a narrative that is recited from offstage. The puppets have heads, hands, and feet of wood attached to a bodiless cloth costume.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of course Bunraku is technically musical theater so there are both musicians playing the shamisen, a stringed guitar-like instrument which is repeatedly tuned and retuned during the performance, and "chanters" who provide narration and dialog for the puppets in a quasi-sung, quasi-spoken fashion.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Of course Bunraku is technically musical theater so there are both musicians playing the shamisen, a stringed guitar-like instrument which is repeatedly tuned and retuned during the performance, and "chanters" who provide narration and dialog for the puppets in a quasi-sung, quasi-spoken fashion.
Puppet Master(s) 2007
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The good news is that Josh Hartnett has a brand-new movie called "Bunraku" that sounds like it could be "Sin City" all over again.
Josh Hartnett Won’t Be Getting Jazzed For ‘Cool’ Chet Baker Flick » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Other titles in play include Dan Moshe's Josh Hartnett topliner "Bunraku," which premiered
Variety.com 2010
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Other titles in play include Dan Moshe's Josh Hartnett topliner "Bunraku," which premiered
Variety.com 2010
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The 48-year-old actor will next been seen in action drama 'Bunraku' alongside Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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The 48-year-old actor will next been seen in action drama 'Bunraku' alongside Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie BreakingNews.ie / TCM 2010
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Other titles in play include Dan Moshe's Josh Hartnett topliner "Bunraku," which premiered
Variety.com 2010
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The 48-year-old actor will next been seen in action drama 'Bunraku' alongside Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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The 48-year-old actor will next been seen in action drama 'Bunraku' alongside Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie BreakingNews.ie / TCM 2010
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