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198080 minGdocumentary

Dark Hair

198080 minGdocumentary

Japanese women's long, dark hair is examined through Kabuki theater, interviews, narrative re-enactments, and bunraku puppetry to reveal its cultural significance.

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Midori Kurisaki

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Japanese women's long, dark hair is examined through Kabuki theater, interviews, narrative re-enactments, and bunraku puppetry to reveal its cultural significance.

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Women's hair as myth and metaphor: Kurisaki uses Kabuki theater, documentary interviews, narrative re-enactments and bunraku puppets to explore the mystical and symbolic properties of the typically long, dark hair of Japanese women.

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