A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Cinema
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Japanese Cinema
- ASIN: 3822831565
- ISBN: 3822831565
- Manufacturer: TASCHEN
Exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers Until recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very narrow prism. For years, Westerners interested in Japanese film had to content themselves with the collected works of Akira Kurosawa, a spotty sampling of films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu, gobs of anime, and ba... [Read More]
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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos
- ASIN: 1568364393
- ISBN: 1568364393
- Brand: Kodansha
- Manufacturer: Kodansha International
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 Ti... [Read More]
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JAPANESE CINEMA ENCYCLOPEDIA: SEX FILMS
- ASIN: 1889288527
- ISBN: 1889288527
- Manufacturer: Vital Books
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Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Horror, Fantasy, and Sci Fi Films
- ASIN: 1889288519
- ISBN: 1889288519
- Brand: Brand: Vital Books, Inc.
- Manufacturer: Vital Books, Inc.
Those familiar with the author's previous forays into the world of Hong Kong Cinema and Spaghetti Westerns will know pretty much what to expect here, and it falls far short of any dictionary definition of "essential". Short, cursory capsule reviews, short on insight, style and cultural context and high on typographical and factual errors, accompani... [Read More]
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The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema
- ASIN: 0822354225
- ISBN: 0822354225
- Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books
In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion became naturalized as the representation of beauty in Jap... [Read More]
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The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture
- ASIN: 0834803801
- ISBN: 0834803801
- Manufacturer: Weatherhill
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Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society)
- ASIN: B00HFFCGI2
- Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books
The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro ... [Read More]
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Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema
- ASIN: 1847882307
- ISBN: 1847882307
- Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
- Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters - together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa - of Japanese cinema. Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema is the definitive guide to the life and work of one of the greatest film-makers of the twentieth century.Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a wealthy family, Mizoguchi... [Read More]
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The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994
- ASIN: 0786400323
- ISBN: 0786400323
- Manufacturer: McFarland Publishing
This encyclopedia reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in the United States in theaters or on video and the important actors, directors, producers and technical personnel involved in them.
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Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation
- ASIN: 0812693329
- ISBN: 0812693329
- Brand: KLO80
- Manufacturer: Open Court
Samurai from Outer Space is the first book-length discussion of the suddenly popular genre of Japanese animation. Japanese animation, also known as anime (pronounced AH-nee-may), is gaining devoted fans of all ages and nationalities. A few years ago anime was something of an oddity. Now it is poised to become the biggest cultural import since PBS d... [Read More]
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Japanese Movie Billboards: Retro Art from a Century of Cinema
- ASIN: 1932897283
- ISBN: 1932897283
- Brand: Brand: DH Publishing
- Manufacturer: Dh Pub Inc
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TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion
- UPC: 782009089230
- ASIN: 1569316813
- ISBN: 1569316813
- Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC
Patrick Macias' TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. TokyoScope is the first book of its kind: an elegantly designed, engagingly written introduction to the world of Japanese pop films covering Godzilla, karate, gangster, horror, Japan's infamous "pink" movies, and more. Did you know that Samuel L. Jackson's Biblical speech in Pulp Fiction... [Read More]
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Japanese Movie Posters: Yakuza, Monster, Pink, and Horror
- ASIN: 0972312455
- ISBN: 0972312455
- Brand: Brand: DH Publishing
- Manufacturer: Dh Pub Inc
Accessible, fun, and colorful world of snarling gangsters, fire-breathing lizards, and animated dreams full of humor and wonder. While high-art Japanese cinema has been documented and analyzed in the West, popular and cult Japanese movies have remained largely unexplored. The fantastic vintage posters that drew the masses to Kurosawa's samurai flic... [Read More]
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It's All About the Style: A Survey of Martial Arts Styles Depicted in Chinese Cinema
- ASIN: 1515037991
- ISBN: 1515037991
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
(Taken from the Foreword) Ever watch a kung fu movie and wonder if the style being used is a true martialart or not? Or perhaps, is that a real weapon? Is there a difference between a three sectional staff, a two sectional staff and nun-chaku? Is there such a thing as blind white leopard fist? These are questions I've asked myself and friends many ... [Read More]
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Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand
- ASIN: 1933330120
- ISBN: 1933330120
- Brand: Brand: Stone Bridge Press
- Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press
Asian Extreme cinema is hot, and this book lays it out in all its gory glory. Patrick Galloway, who last looked at samurai movies in his well-received Stray Dogs and Lone Wolves, now takes on Asian masters of suspense, exploitation, the supernatural, and bone-chilling, blood-curdling fear and evil. The films featured here are pan-Asian, including K... [Read More]
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A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day
- ASIN: 1933330538
- ISBN: 9781933330532
- Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press
This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching.Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Y... [Read More]
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In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage
- ASIN: 1403964637
- ISBN: 1403964637
- Brand: Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
- Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.
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The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation since 1917
- ASIN: 1880656647
- ISBN: 1880656647
- Brand: Brand: Stone Bridge Press
- Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press
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Japanese Animation: Time Out of Mind
- ASIN: 0861966929
- ISBN: 0861966929
- Brand: Brand: Indiana University Press
- Manufacturer: John Libbey Publishing
While visiting Japan, animation writer Chris Robinson gets lost. As he drifts through Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto he happens upon a number of mysterious figures including Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, Sumo wrestlers, Big Bird and, by good chance, many famous Japanese animators―both living and dead. Each of these characters takes Robinson into a dee... [Read More]
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Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
- ASIN: B07H3T2RRW
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth†‘century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red†‘haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit—what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animato... [Read More]
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