A puppet play would be entertainment fit for a child, you might think. But this bunraku play is as sad as "Tokyo Story," the old movie by Ozu Yasujiro that film critics have called the greatest movie of all time. It also reminds one of Oedipus Rex, the drama by Sophocles in the Golden Age of Greece, but without any Freudian connotations. Oedipus could not escape his fate, and neither could this poor family.
You can read the script while listening and follow links for further reading
here.
Lassooed, meanwhile, into My Odeo Channel
