Dolls (1987)

If you are a sensitive, emphatic person, you might love this movie. It creates this most real and delightful moments, where you cry and laugh at the same time.

I can remember looking at the VHS tape of this way back in the early nineties when I was nine or ten years old. The reverse cover which displayed rows of dolls looked pretty creepy.

Visually, Dolls is a meeting between the style of Kitano's "Fireworks" and "Scene at the Sea" with that of Yimou Zhang's "House of Flying Daggers" (what with the crazy colour saturation and all). It was slow, well directed, and beautifully shot, with at least passable acting and intermittent scripting.