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Hundred Years of Japanese Film, A: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos

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By (author): Donald Richie John Hannavy

The authoritative guide to Japanese film, completely revised and updated. Now available in paperback for the first time, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie, the foremost Western expert on Japanese film, gives us an incisive, detailed, and fully illustrated history of the country's cinema. Called the dean of Japan's arts critics' by Time magazine, Richie takes us from the inception of Japanese cinema at the end of the nineteenth century, through the achievements of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu, then on to the notable works of contemporary' See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 704g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 225mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Sep 2012
  • Publisher: Kodansha America Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781568364391

About Donald RichieJohn Hannavy

Former Curator of Film at the New York Museum of Modern Art DONALD RICHIE has written some forty books on Japan and its people including definitive works on the Japanese film directors Kurosawa and Ozu. The film version of his travel classic The Inland Sea has been shown on PBS and won several prizes at international film festivals as well as the National Geographic Earth Award. Public People Private People his portraits of famous and far-from-famous Japanese received praise from many quarters. Of Richie's two collections of essays A Lateral View and Partial Views Susan Sontag said: Donald Richie writes about Japan with an unrivaled range acuity and wit.His latest book is The Japan Journals: 1947-2004.A well-known director (American Gigolo Affliction) and screenwriter (Taxi Driver The Last Temptation of Christ) PAUL SCHRADER also has a strong feeling for Japan and its films. Not only did he write and direct Mishima considered by many to be his masterpiece he also contributed to the very first appreciation of the Japanese yakuza film genre and wrote the seminal Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu Bresson Dreyer.

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