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

ISBN-13: 9781568364391

Contributor(s): Donald Richie (author), Paul Schrader (foreword by)

Subject: Films & Cinema

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Books

Publication Date: 15-10-2012

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£20.99

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About the book

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'