Dramatic love takes center stage in these three interwoven stories inspired by Japanese bunraku puppet theater and featuring beautifully stylized, stage-like sets and costumes. A man flees his arranged wedding when he finds out his true love has attempted suicide, binding himself to his incapacitated sweetheart with red satin; an aging gangster discovers the girlfriend he abandoned thirty years ago remains devoted to him; and a pop star who has withdrawn from society after a disfiguring car accident is confronted with one truly fanatic follower. Despite his deliberate foregrounding of theatrical artifice, Kitano creates an absorbing allegory of love and sadness.