Masahiro Shinoda’s visually striking B&W film not only uses the classic "bunraku puppet play" as source material and as a stylistic guide, but retains puppet theater techniques in presentation, right down to those black garbed "invisible" manipulators, yet it's cast with live human actors. The story is extreme, as one would guess with such a title, about a man who leaves his family for a prostitute, and Shinoda must have felt that too realistic an approach would have let his audience off the hook, allowing them to easily distance themselves from the story. So, paradoxically, the air of artifice becomes our key into the emotional argument. Though this is still no day at the beach.
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