Hand Ninja
I love this “Hand Ninja” video. Clever, simple, effective. Most importantly, the girls in this video are obviously having fun. More puppetry should be like this.
Tag Archives: Japanese puppetry
Just In…The Latest Kasou Taisho Results
Kasou Taisho – a semi-annual competition with skits that frequently involve Bunraku-style puppetry- aired in Japan Wednesday night. The latest Kasou Taisho special aired in Japan tonight which, in Japan, is already yesterday (it’s like they live permanently in the future!). Click “Read More” to see some of the best entries: This was the winning [...]
Japanese Jelly Commercial
This commercial is another interesting (odd?) use of puppetry from Japan. Badly performed puppets starring in a commercial for zero calorie gelatin in Japan (I have no idea). Via Japan Probe.
Japanese Commercial with Bunraku Puppets
Bunraku puppets are used to sell bug killer in Japan. When trying to invent ways to sell bug killer I’m not sure that Bunraku puppets would be the first thing to jump in to my head. Then again, I don’t live in Japan.
"Sour" Hand Shadow Video
Yet another cool puppet video from the land of the rising sun. I seem to be discovering a lot of Japanese stuff lately for no reason other than Japan is a really, really creative place. The latest is this video for a Japanese band called Sour. The music doesn’t do much for me, but it’s [...]
Neko Rahmen
Neko Rahmen Taisho is a feature film based on a popular Japanese comic/animation property. Neko Rahmen is a popular Japanese anime series and manga about a cat named Taishou who runs a ramen shop. It’s being adapted in to a Japanese feature film with Taishou being realized as a puppet. If you check out the [...]
Bunraku-Style Mario
Super Mario gets the Kasou Taisho treatment. OK, this is pretty awesome. I’m not entirely sure, but I assume this is from a recent Kasou Taisho (see previous post).
Best of 2008: Kasou Taisho
A Bunraku aquarium is performed on Japan’s Kasou Taisho. Something that really seemed to really catch on in a big way on the web this past year was Kasou Taisho (see earlier post), a sort of semi-annual costume contest on Japanese TV that features amateur groups and solo artists performing short skits which frequently utilize [...]
Monday Morning Inspiration: Kihachirō Kawamoto
Legendary Japanese animator Kihachirō Kawamoto has been making stop motion films for over 50 years. Kihachirō Kawamoto (link goes to his official site, in Japanese) is a Japanese animator, renowned internationally for his work in stop motion animation. As a boy he was inspired by the work of the acclaimed Czech stop motion filmmaker Jiří [...]
Scissor Sister Inspiration (or is it the other way around?)
The puppet-loving Scissor Sisters’ video for She’s My Man draws inspiration from Kasou Taisho. The Scissor Sisters are well-known for incorporating large-scale puppetry in to their act (see previous post), but I couldn’t help noticing that their music video for She’s My Man looks an awful lot like this video that I first saw last [...]
