Oct 12, 2002
114 min
Full-HD

Dolls (2002)

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

Japan

Companies

TV Tokyo Bandai Visual Office Kitano Tokyo FM

Miho Kanno

Sawako

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Matsumoto

Tatsuya Mihashi

Hiro

Chieko Matsubara

Ryoko

Kyoko Fukada

Haruna Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Takeshige

Nukui

Kayoko Kishimoto

Haruna's Aunt

Nao Omori

Matsumoto's Colleague

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